{"id":17043,"date":"2025-07-23T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/himalayakiawaj.com\/?p=17043"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:50:43","slug":"revisit-the-journey-of-radio-in-india-that-began-98-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himalayakiawaj.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/revisit-the-journey-of-radio-in-india-that-began-98-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisit the journey of radio in India that began 98 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"292\"><strong data-start=\"180\" data-end=\"292\">Today is National Broadcasting Day, it was on this day that the Indian Broadcasting Company was established<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"294\" data-end=\"1040\"><strong data-start=\"294\" data-end=\"306\">Dehradun<\/strong>: \u201cThis is All India Radio\u2026\u201d \u2013 for many born in the 20th century, this phrase still echoes in their ears from time to time. Radio \u2013 the most powerful medium of information and entertainment in the previous century. You might already know that <em data-start=\"543\" data-end=\"554\">Akashvani<\/em> came into existence in 1956; before that, it was known as All India Radio (AIR). However, radio\u2019s journey in India had actually begun much earlier \u2013 back in 1923, over three and a half decades before Akashvani was born. It took four more years to take an institutional form, and in 1927, the Indian Broadcasting Company was established in Bombay (now Mumbai). On July 23 of that year, the company aired its first broadcast. That day is now celebrated as National Broadcasting Day.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1042\" data-end=\"1697\">So today, let\u2019s take this opportunity to remember radio\u2019s journey in India. The Indian Broadcasting Company was a private enterprise. It set up its first radio station in Bombay, and within the same year, a second station in Calcutta (now Kolkata). At that time, radio was accessible mainly to the urban elite. Along with music and songs, news bulletins were also broadcast. For three years, the company continued operating these stations, but eventually, due to severe financial difficulties, it declared bankruptcy. In 1930, the then British government established the Indian State Broadcasting Service, which was renamed All India Radio (AIR) in 1936.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"2160\">After independence, AIR expanded rapidly. Today, AIR operates 591 stations, covering 98% of the country\u2019s population and broadcasting in 23 languages and 146 dialects. The government\u2019s initiatives such as community radio reflect the importance of broadcasting, especially in reaching remote areas. Even in this fast-paced era of rapidly evolving technology, radio continues to hold its ground and remain relevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is National Broadcasting Day, it was on this day that the Indian Broadcasting Company was established Dehradun: \u201cThis is All India Radio\u2026\u201d \u2013 for many born in the 20th century, this phrase still echoes in their ears from time to time. Radio \u2013 the most powerful medium of information and entertainment in the previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[4599],"class_list":{"0":"post-17043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national-international-2","8":"tag-revisit-the-journey-of-radio-in-india-that-began-98-years-ago"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Revisit the journey of radio in India that began 98 years ago - Himalaya Ki Awaj<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/himalayakiawaj.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/revisit-the-journey-of-radio-in-india-that-began-98-years-ago\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Revisit the journey of radio in India that began 98 years ago - Himalaya Ki Awaj\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is National Broadcasting Day, it was on this day that the Indian Broadcasting Company was established Dehradun: \u201cThis is All India Radio\u2026\u201d \u2013 for many born in the 20th century, this phrase still echoes in their ears from time to time. 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