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KVRI (branded as Radio India) is a radio station licensed to Blaine, Washington, United States, serving Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with a combined India News/ Talk/ Music format. It broadcasts on AM frequency 1600 kHz and is under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting.
The station was operating under a LMA with Radio India, Ltd., and was broadcasting from its studios in Surrey, British Columbia until November 13, 2014, when the CRTC forced Radio India to end the LMA due to rules that prohibit a Canadian company from operating, leasing, or owning, a radio or television property in the United States solely for broadcasting to Canadians, and for operating without a license within Canada.
Radio India Ltd. is a radio station with its offices in Surrey in Greater Vancouver. As of 2015, Maninder S. Gill serves as the managing director of the station, and his sister, Baljit Bains, is the owner. Maninder Gill is the brother of the mother-in-law of Tom Gill, a Surrey city councillor, and Robert Matas of The Globe and Mail described Maninder Gill as "a prominent figure" of Vancouver's Indo-Canadian community.
As of 2004 Radio India has a clientele of first and second generation Indo-Canadians. Its shows discuss the culture, politics, and religion of India. In 2014 Gill stated that the annual advertising revenue was $2 million to $3 million.