Today, AIR’s home service comprises 414 stations located across India, reaching approximately 92 per cent of the country’s area. (Image: Shutterstock)
National Broadcasting Day 2021: The Indian Broadcasting Company (IBC) started organizing radio broadcasts from Bombay station on this day in 1927.
National Broadcasting Day is celebrated every year on 23 July across the country. The Indian Broadcasting Company (IBC) started conducting radio broadcasts from Bombay station on this day in 1927. To mark the event, All India Radio (AIR) organized a symposium on New India and the making of a broadcasting medium in New Delhi. Radio broadcasting services were started in India during the British rule in 1923 under the initiative of Radio Club of Bombay.
The British government took over radio broadcasting in 1930 and started the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS). The government took over the broadcasting facilities on an experimental basis for two years on 1 April 1930. The IBC was a private entity and was granted permission by the British government to operate two radio stations in Kolkata (then Calcutta) and Mumbai (then Bombay).
It was permanently renamed as the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) in May 1932. Later, it was changed to All India Radio (AIR) on June 8, 1936 and became All India Radio in 1957. Since then, it has gained popularity and brought about social change- the economic life of the people.
India’s largest public broadcasting agency, Prasar Bharati is a statutory autonomous body established by an Act of Parliament and analogous to Doordarshan Television Network, which was earlier the media arm of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Today, AIR’s home service comprises 414 stations located across India, reaching approximately 92 per cent of the country’s population and 99.19 per cent of the total population.
AIR receives programming in 23 languages and 146 dialects. Currently, AIR is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in the world in terms of the number of broadcast languages, the spectrum of socio-economic and cultural diversity.
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