Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) is upgrading its medium wave network to ensure wide coverage and better reception across the country, an official source told Associated Press of Pakistan.

Two new powerful medium wave transmitters of 400 kilowatt and 100 kilowatt power have recently been installed in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan respectively, for covering the areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Balochistan provinces.

With Japanese assistance, Radio Pakistan is also replacing Fakirabad medium wave transmitters with a 500 kilowatt high power transmitter along with transmitters at Hyderabad, Karachi and Larkana.

All these transmitters will become operational by the end of 2014.