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Introduction to AIR
All India Radio (abbreviatedasAIR), officially known asAkashvani
is the radiobroadcaster ofIndia and adivision ofPrasar
Bharati(Broadcasting Corporation ofIndia), an autonomous
corporation of the Ministry ofInformation and
Broadcasting,Government of India.
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Today, it is the sisterservice of Prasar
Bharati'sDoordarshan, the nationaltelevision broadcaster.
One of the largest radio networks in the
world one of the largest radio networks inthe world
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History of radio broadcastingIn India
In India the first radio club wasstarted working inBombay in
June 1923
In November 1923 Calcutta radio club went onairand the Madras
radio clubstarted working on31st July 1924 for the time period of 2
hours 30minutes.but closed down due to the financialreasons.
ON 23 July 1927 broadcasting startedby Indian
broadcasting service in Bombayand Calcutta.
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IBC wasa financial failure in spite ofaloan
from the government and was closed downin year 1930.IBC wasa
private company.
But under the pressure of general public,
radio program producers, radio dealersandmanufacturers the govt.
took over the
Bombayand Calcuttastation in 1930.
British Govt.s Department of Labourand
Industriesstarted operating them as the
Indian State Broadcasting Corporation
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STARTING OF ALL INDIA RADIO
Lionel Fielden was the first person who realizedthe importance
of radio and persuade the govt. todo something for the betterment
of the radio
programs. The name Indianbroadcasting service was
changed to All India Radio in June 8 ,1936.
Lionel Fielden started short wave service in 1938and programs
went on air from Lucknow andMadras radio stations on 2nd April 1938
and onJune 16, 1938
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In 1939, tiruchi radio station wasalso
established and in same the externalservicedivision in Delhi
wasstarted.
A.S.Bokhari was the first ever IndianDirector general of radio
who took over the
charge of radio from Lionel Fielden A new broadcasting house was
built on
Parliament street, New Delhi.
On 3rd June 1947 ,
LordMountbatten,Jawaharlal Nehru andMohammad Ali Jinnah made
historicalbroadcast on the partition of India.
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NINEDECADESOF BROADCASTING
The phenomenal growth achievedby All India Radio
through decades has made it one of the largest
media organizations in the world.Today AIR reaches
out to 99.14% of the population spread overabout
91.79% of the area with the help of 231 broadcasting
Centres.
Majorlandmarks ofbroadcasting are listedbelow
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1920-1930s
June,1923 : Broadcast of programsby the RadioClub of Bombay.
November, 1923 : Calcutta Radio Club put outprograms.
July 31, 1924 : Broadcasting Service initiatedbythe Madras
Presidency Radio Club.
July 23, 1927 : Indian Broadcast Company(IBC),Bombay Station
inaugurated by Lord Irwin,
the Viceroy of India. August 26, 1927 : Calcutta Station of
IBC
inaugurated.
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1930s
March 1, 1930 : IBC went into liquidation.
April 1, 1930 : Indian State Broadcasting Serviceunder
Department of Industries
and Labour commenced on experimentalbasis.
March, 1935 : A new department Controller ofBroadcast
constituted.
August 30, 1935 : Lionel Fielden appointed as the
firstcontroller of Broadcasting in India.
September 10, 1935 : Akashvani Mysore, a privateradio station,
wasset up. The word Akashavani wascoined by Professor Dr. M.V.
Gopalaswamy for hisradio station in Mysore during 1936.
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January 19, 1936 : First newsbulletin broadcast
from AIR.
June 8, 1936 : Indian State Broadcasting
Service became All India Radio.
August 1, 1937 : Central NewsOrganisationcame into
existence.
November, 1937 : AIR came under Department
of Communication. October 1, 1939 : External Service started
with
Pusthubroadcast.
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1940s
October 24, 1941 : AIR came under Department ofI&B.
January 1, 1942 : Akashvani Mysore was taken overby Maharaja of
Mysore.
February 23, 1946 : AIR came under the Departmentof Information
& Arts.
September 10, 1946 : Department of Informationand Arts changed
to Department of Information andBroadcasting.
1947 (at the time of partition) : Six Radio Stations
inIndia(Delhi,Bombay,Calcutta,Madras)
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Tiruchirapalli and Lucknow) and three RadioStations in Pakistan
(Peshawar, Lahore and
Dacca)
September, 1948 : Central NewsOrganisation
(CNO) wassplit up into two Divisions,1.News Service Division
(NSD) and 2. External
Service Division (ESD),
the former remained responsible for the news
output of ESD as well.
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1950s
July 20, 1952 : First National Programme of Music
broadcast from AIR.
July 29, 1953 : National Programme ofTalks
(English) commenced from AIR.
1954 : First Radio Sangeet Sammelan held.
August 15, 1956 : National Programme of Play
commenced.
October 3, 1957 : Vividh Bharati Servicesstarted. November 1,
1959 : First TV Station in Delhi started
(at that time, it was part of AIR).
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