Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
All India Radio(AIR), officially known since 1956 as 'Akashvani' is the national public radio broadcaster of India.It was established in 1936. All India Radio is the largest radio network in the world, and one of the largest broadcasting organizations in the world in terms of the number of languages broadcast and the spectrum of socio-economic and cultural diversity it serves.
As per the Broadcast Audience Research Council's Broadcast India (BI) 2018 Survey released in July 2018, based on a sample of 3 lakh homes in the country, TV homes in the country have seen a 7.5% jump, [63] outpacing the growth of homes in India which grew at 4.5%. India currently boasts 298 million homes, of which 197 million have a TV set ...
All India Radio is the largest radio network in the world in terms of the number of languages broadcast, the socioeconomic diversity it serves, and the scale of its broadcasting organisation. AIR's domestic service includes 420 stations nationwide, covering nearly 92% of India's geographic area and 99.19% of its population, with programming ...
The history of film in India begins with the screening of Auguste and Louis Lumière moving pictures in Bombay during the July 1895. [37] Raja Harishchandra, a full-length feature film, was initiated in 1912 and completed later. [37] Alam Ara (released 14 March 1931), directed by Ardeshir Irani, was the first Indian movie with dialogues. [38]
The FM broadcasting in India began in 1977; growing popularity after 2001 when the privatisation of FM broadcasting began. AIR's FM LRS (Local Radio Station) was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 at 06:00 in Kodaikanal relaying Madurai programs in the frequency 100.5 MHz. 100.5 was so popular that LRS was upgraded to an FM Channel in just two months.
The DD India satellite channel has been broadcast in 146 countries. In the United Kingdom, it was available through the Eurobird satellite on the Sky system's channel 833, under the logo Rayat TV. However, transmission via Sky Digital ended in June 2008, followed by the termination of its broadcast via DirecTV in the United States the following ...
Prasar Bharati (abbreviated as PB) (transl. Broadcasting Corporation of India) is India's state-owned public broadcaster, headquartered in New Delhi, India.It is a statutory autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament.
An ISRO technician next to a working model of the solid-state television set, designed with NASA assistance, for use in SITE. Image courtesy NASA. Satellite Instructional Television Experiment or SITE was an experimental satellite communications project launched in India in 1975, designed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).