Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation is practically the only nation wide broadcasting medium in Pakistan. It came into existence right at the time of inception of this country. Thus Radio Pakistan represents the entire Pakistani people, their culture, heritage and history.

The history of Pakistan is preserved in the form of sound recorded on tapes. These recorded tapes contain immortal songs, speeches, lectures, talks, seminars, musical features, interviews, plays and documentaries etc. The recording medium is sequential spools with analog signal format, which are decaying and physically deteriorating their quality. Thus we are required to preserve these recorded spools into digital format.

Radio Pakistan through its stations located at as many places in the country as on air for more than 300 hours daily in the Home Service using 21 languages and reaches 80% of the area and 96.5% of the population of the country. Nearly half the time is devoted to information and education and remaining half to entertainment. In its programme-fare PBC makes use of all the formats in order to reach its listeners by catering to their interests. Programme fare is a balanced combination of information entertainment specially music and education. General programme categories are music (48%), religious (12.5%), News and current affairs (25%), Women Children and Labour (5%), Youth-Students (3%), Forces (2%), Rural & Farm (10%),Drama/Features (2%), Publicity Campaigns (2%) and Science, Technology, Health (2%) and Sports (2.5%). Radio gives special attention to sports because in games like Cricket and Squash, Pakistan produced players whose international records cannot be easily broken. Jehangir Khan and Jan Sher Khan are such players who won all the international Squash matches for years together.