Since June 1923 Indian skies are experiencing radio frequencies and they are pretty familiar with them by now. We grew up by listening to the tunes of Aakashwani. Radio has the widest reach and well structured network pan India. Be it Short Wave, Medium Wave or Frequency Modulation it doesn’t matter to the listener as far as he is hearing his favourite music. With time the industry also expanded from 275,000 radio sets at the time of independence to millions. Now in almost every house you may find it. Whether an old transistor, mobile FM Radio, digital radio or any other form it doesn’t matter but you will find the radio. There was a time when radio was considered as the only medium of entertainment. It was seen as a fashion statement also, as it was a licensed property. Nevertheless this situation didn’t held it for long and as the nation got free so did the air waves.
On 3 October 1957, the Vivid Bharti services got launched. Its name roughly translates as ‘Multi-Indian’ service and it is also known as the commercial broadcasting services (CBS). It offers a wide range of news, film music and drama. The Industry was growing with a gradual but sure pace and as per the data available AIR claims that it has a network of 237 broadcasting centres with 149 medium frequency (MW), 54 high frequency (SW) and 177 FM transmitters. The coverage is 91.85% of the area, serving 99.18% of the people in the largest democracy of the world. AIR covers 24 Languages and 146 dialects in home services. In External services, it covers 27 languages; 17 national and 10 foreign languages.
The Radio was growing with its big brother called television. Everything was going just fine until Feb 1995 when an important judgement was given by Supreme Court. Judgement delivered by Justice PB Sawant and Justice S Mohan on 9 Feb 1995 in the case between the Union of India & Cricket Association of Bengal. The issue before the court, specifically, was if the CAB as well as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (the BCCI) could claim a right to broadcast sporting events that they organized and conducted through an agency of their own choosing. In essence, the court affirmed that the people have a right to their own broadcasting medium, that they could choose the content, they could hire their own agents and equipment, and they could broadcast these without restriction, except as noted in Article 19(2), which relates to public safety, security, etc. This judgement is an important milestone, as it permits individual citizens to set up their own broadcasting media organizations and operate freely.
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(Source : Radioandmusic.com)
On 3 October 1957, the Vivid Bharti services got launched. Its name roughly translates as ‘Multi-Indian’ service and it is also known as the commercial broadcasting services (CBS). It offers a wide range of news, film music and drama. The Industry was growing with a gradual but sure pace and as per the data available AIR claims that it has a network of 237 broadcasting centres with 149 medium frequency (MW), 54 high frequency (SW) and 177 FM transmitters. The coverage is 91.85% of the area, serving 99.18% of the people in the largest democracy of the world. AIR covers 24 Languages and 146 dialects in home services. In External services, it covers 27 languages; 17 national and 10 foreign languages.
The Radio was growing with its big brother called television. Everything was going just fine until Feb 1995 when an important judgement was given by Supreme Court. Judgement delivered by Justice PB Sawant and Justice S Mohan on 9 Feb 1995 in the case between the Union of India & Cricket Association of Bengal. The issue before the court, specifically, was if the CAB as well as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (the BCCI) could claim a right to broadcast sporting events that they organized and conducted through an agency of their own choosing. In essence, the court affirmed that the people have a right to their own broadcasting medium, that they could choose the content, they could hire their own agents and equipment, and they could broadcast these without restriction, except as noted in Article 19(2), which relates to public safety, security, etc. This judgement is an important milestone, as it permits individual citizens to set up their own broadcasting media organizations and operate freely.
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(Source : Radioandmusic.com)
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