This is the International Section of
The Broadcast Archive
Maintained by:
Barry Mishkind - The Eclectic Engineer
Updated: 11/26/00
Indian Broadcasting:
- History
- Regulation
- Station Identifications
Indian Broadcast History:
The first station in India was operated by the Radio Club of Bombay
in June 1923. (It has also been reported that Chandhar Bose carried out a number
of experiments in Calcutta between 1915 and 1925.)
A national Broadcasting Service was set up on an experimental basis
in July 1927 simultaneously at Bombay and Calcutta under an agreement between
Government of India and a private company called the Indian Broadcasting Company
Ltd.
When India became independent, the AIR network had only six Stations
located at Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Lucknow and Tiruchirapalli with a
total complement of 18 transmitters - six on the medium wave and the remaining
on short wave. Radio listening on medium wave was confined to urban limits of
those cities.
Regulation:
Station Identification:
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