As India’s National Broadcaster and also the premier Public Service Broadcaster, All India Radio (AIR) has been serving to inform, educate and entertain the masses since it's inception, truly living up to its motto – ‘Bahujan Hitaya: Bahujan Sukhaya’. One of the largest broadcasting organisations in the world in terms of the number of languages of broadcast, the spectrum of socio-economic and cultural diversity it serves, AIR’s home service comprises 420 stations today located across the country, reaching nearly 92% of the country’s area and 99.19% of the total population. AIR originates programming in 23 languages and 179 dialects.
Prasar Bharati (Doordarshan and Akashvani) radio and television tower, located roughly 30 kilometres southwest of the city of Pune, Maharashtra. The hill rises.
AIR headquarters in All India Radio ( AIR), officially known since 1956 as Ākāsha Vāṇī ('Voice from the Sky') is the national radio broadcaster of and is a division of. It was established in 1930. It is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's, an Indian television broadcaster. Headquartered in the Akashvani Bhavan building in, it houses the Drama Section, the FM Section, the National Service, and is also home to the Indian television station Kendra,.
All India Radio is the largest radio network in the world, and one of the largest broadcasting organizations in the world in terms of the number of languages broadcast and the spectrum of socio-economic and cultural diversity it serves. AIR’s home service comprises 420 stations located across the country, reaching nearly 92% of the country’s area and 99.19% of the total population. AIR originates programming in 23 languages and 179 dialects. Main article: (आकाशवाणी) is a word meaning 'celestial announcement' or 'voice from the sky/heaven'. In, and, Akashvanis are often featured in stories as a medium of communication from heaven to mankind. 'Akashvani' was first used in the context of radio by M.
Gopalaswami in 1936 after setting up India's first private radio station in his residence, 'Vittal Vihar' (about two hundred yards from AIR’s current radio station). Akashvani was later adopted as All India Radio's on-air name in 1957. History Broadcasting began in June 1923 during the with programs by the and other radio clubs. According to an agreement on 23 July 1927, the private Indian Broadcasting Company Ltd (IBC) was authorized to operate two radio stations: the station which began on 23 July 1927, and the station which followed on 26 August 1927. The company went into liquidation on 1 March 1930. The government took over the broadcasting facilities and began the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) on 1 April 1930 on an experimental basis for two years, and permanently in May 1932 it then went on to become All India Radio on 8 June 1936. On 1 October 1939, the External Service began with a broadcast in.
It was intended to counter radio from Germany directed at Afghanistan, Iran and Arab nations. 1939 also saw the opening of the station of Eastern India, in what is now. This station catered and nurtured the pioneers of Bengali intellectuals. The foremost among them, became the trail-blazer of the talk-show in 1939. He wrote and directed the first modern radio-play for this station in 1942. When India became independent in 1947, the AIR network had only six stations (, and ). The three radio stations at, and remained in what became Pakistan after the division.
The total number of radio sets in India at that time was about 275,000. On 3 October 1957, the Service was launched, to compete with. Television broadcasting began in Delhi in 1959 as part of AIR, but was split off from the radio network as on 1 April 1976. FM broadcasting began on 23 July 1977 in, and expanded during the 1990s., the first radio station in (now ), went live on air on 3 February 1935.
It was launched by the 7th of Hyderabad with a transmitting power of 200. On 1 April 1950, Deccan Radio was taken over by the Indian Government, and in 1956 it was merged with All India Radio (AIR). Since then, it has been known as AIR-Hyderabad (100 kW). Domestic services AIR has many services in a number of languages, each serving different regions across India. Vividh Bharati is one of the best-known services of All India Radio. Its name roughly translates as 'Diverse Indian'.
It is also known as the Commercial Broadcasting Service or CBS. Commercially, it is the most accessible AIR network and is popular in and other large cities. Vividh Bharati offers a wide range of programs including news, film music, short plays, music and comedy. It operates on different -band frequencies in each city. Some programs broadcast on Vividh Bharati are:.: based on novels and plays.
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National Channel Regional services The headquarters of the Regional Deputy Directors General are located in Delhi and Chandigarh (NR), Lucknow and Bhopal (CR), Guwahati (NER), Kolkata (ER), Mumbai and Ahmedabad (WR), Chennai and Bangalore (SR). All frequencies are in kHz, unless otherwise noted. All India Radio. Retrieved 13 January 2013. Retrieved 2018-06-26. Archived from (PDF) on 17 September 2010.
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