HumDesi Radio, a division of WorldBand Media

WorldBand Media

WorldBand Media Inc. is a North American media company specializing in the production and distribution of ethnic based media content. It currently owns and operates HumDesi Radio, a national South Asian radio network broadcasting in The United States and on a number of digital platforms across...

, is a South Asian national radio network that broadcasts around the clock in New York/New Jersey, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, HumDesi Radio can be heard online over the internet, and is also available on the iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

, iPod Touch

IPod Touch

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, Microsoft Zune, and BlackBerry

BlackBerry

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Notable Guests on HumDesi Radio

Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....

 - Bollywood Actor.

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...

 - New York City Mayor.

A.R. Rahman - Oscar Award winning film composer, record producer, musician and singer.

Vivek Ranadive

Vivek Ranadive

Vivek Ranadivé is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of TIBCO Software, the computer software technology company he founded in 1997 with the vision of bringing real-time technology into the mainstream...

 - Chairman, CEO, and Founder of TIBCO Software.

John Leguizamo

John Leguizamo

Jonathan Alberto "John" Leguizamo is an Colombian-American actor, producer, voice artist, and comedian.-Early life:...

 - Emmy award winning actor and comedian.

Sowmya Raoh

Sowmya Raoh

Sowmya Raoh is an Indian playback singer who has performed in Kannada, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu languages.She is the daughter of Veteran Kannada Singer B.K. Sumitra and She has a brother named Sunil Rao who is a Kannada Actor-Filmography:...

 - Bollywood singer.

Mira Nair

Mira Nair

Mira Nair is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! , won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination...

 - Acclaimed film director, writer, and producer.

Paul Varghese

Paul Varghese

Paul Varghese is a Dallas, Texas, comedian of Indian descent who appeared on the hit reality show Last Comic Standing 2, where he made it to the semi-finals. He taped his first full-set for national television on March 8, 2007, for Comedy Central's Live at Gotham which aired July 13, 2007. He was...

 - Stand-up comedian who appeared on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham".

The Great Khali - WWE Superstar.

Ayesha Takia

Ayesha Takia

-Early life:Ayesha was born in Chembur Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Gujarati father, Nishit and a mother of mixed British-Maharashtrian descent, Faridah. She attended St. Anthony's High School in Chembur...

 - Bollywood Actress.

Saira Mohan

Saira Mohan

Saira Mohan is a Canadian fashion model of Indian, Irish and French heritage. Although successful for many years prior in New York City, she was launched into international fame in 2003 after Newsweek put her on the cover with the headline "The Perfect Face". She is actively involved with product...

 - Fashion model and actress.

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Parvati Lakshmi also Padma, Lady Rushdie is an American cookbook author, actress, model and television host. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for...

 - Fashion model and actress.

Shibani Joshi

Shibani Joshi

Shibani Sona Joshi is a reporter for the Fox Business Network. Joshi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and completed the investment banking analyst program at Morgan Stanley. She also earned a bachelor's degree in finance and accounting at the University of Oklahoma. Joshi is a native of...

 - Fox News Anchor.

Devyani Saltzman

Devyani Saltzman

Devyani Saltzman is a Canadian author and daughter of film directors Paul Saltzman and Deepa Mehta.She is the writer of Shooting Water, a memoir, as well as articles for The Globe and Mail, Marie Claire and The Walrus Magazine....

 - Author of "Shooting Water".

External links

• Digital Radio Mondiale
  Digital Radio Mondiale
  Digital Radio Mondiale is a set of digital audio broadcasting technologies designed to work over the bands currently used for AM broadcasting, particularly shortwave...
  
  
• WorldBand Media
• HumDesi Radio
• HumDesi Radio Live