RADIO AND TELEVISION IN INDIA

RADIO AND TELEVISION IN INDIA

Prasar Bharti (Broadcasting Corporation of India)

• Prasar Bharti is India’s largest broadcaster, comprising of Doordarshan and All India Radio
• It is an autonomous corporation operating under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
• Prasar Bharti was established in 1997

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All India Radio

• Radio broadcasting in India started in 1927 in Bombay and Calcutta with two privately owned transmitters
• In 1930, the government assumed control of radio broadcasting and established the Indian Broadcasting Service.
• All India Radio was established in 1936, as a successor to the Indian Broadcasting Service
  
• All India Radio is the official radio broadcaster of India
• It is officially known as Akashvani. The word Akashvani was coined by Prof M V Gopalaswamy for his radio station in Mysore in 1936
• All India Radio is a division of Prasar Bharti
• The headquarters of AIR is the Akashvani Bhavan in New Delhi
• The External Services Division of the AIR broadcasts in 27 languages to foreign countries
• The AIR also broadcasts a General Overseas Service in English aimed at a general international audience

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Doordarshan

• Doordarshan is the public television broadcaster of India
• It is a division of Prasar Bharti
• Doordarshan was established in 1959.
• Regular daily transmission started in 1965. National telecasts were introduced in 1982
• DD India is the international broadcast of Doordarshan available internationally in 146 countries
• India’s highest TV tower is at Peetambara, New Delhi. At 235 metres, it is three times taller than the Qutub Minar
• Teletext service known as INTEXT was introduced in New Delhi in 1985 to provide common information such as train timings, stock markets etc
• Transmission of Question Hour of Parliament was commenced by Doordarshan in 1991. Today the Lok Sabha TV functions as a separate wing under Doordarshan

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Amateur Radio in India

• Amateur radio is practiced by more than 16000 licensed users in India
• The first amateur radio operator in India was Amarendra Chandra Gooptu in 1921
• The first entertainment and public broadcasting station in India (VU6AH) was set up by E H Metcalfe in 1935. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University
• The oldest amateur radio organization in India is the Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI). Established in 1954, it represents India at the International Amateur Radio Union
• The amateur radio satellite HAMSAT was launched by the ISRO in 2005
• Amateur radio in India is regulated by the Wireless and Planning Corrdination Wing (WPC) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
• To obtain a license for amateur radio operation, one must clear the Amateur Station Operator’s Certificate examination
• The call sign prefix for amateur radio stations in India is VU

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CINEMA IN INDIA

Overview

• India is the world’s largest producer of films
• The Indian government allows 100% FDI in film production and distribution
• The largest film studio complex in the world is the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad
• Hindi and Telugu films account for 50% of the total films produced in India

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History of Indian cinema

• The first film to be screened in India was the Auguste and Louis Lumiere moving pictures in Bombay in 1895
• The first short film made in India was The Flower of Persia, directed by Hiralal Sen in 1898
• The first full length film in India was Raja Harishchandra, made by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913
• The first Indian talking film was Alam Ara, made by Ardeshir Irani in 1931
• The Bengal Film Journalists’ Association, established in 1937, is the oldest association of film critics in India.
• The first colour film in India was Kisan Kanya, made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937

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Cinema awards

Award		Awarded by	Established
National Film Awards	Directorate of Film Festivals (Ministry of I&B, Govt. of India)	1954
Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards	Govt. of West Bengal	1937
Filmfare Awards	Filmfare	1954
International Indian Film Academy Awards	Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.	2000
Nandi Awards	Govt. of Andhra Pradesh	2002

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Awards instituted under the National Film Awards

Award	Category	Latest recipient
Dadsaheb Phalke Award	Lifetime contribution to cinema	Manna Dey (singer)
Indira Gandhi Award	Best first film of a director	Frozen: Shivaji Chandrabhushan (Hindi)
Nargis Dutt Award	Best film on national integration	Dharm: Bhavna Talwar (HindI)
Best Book on Cinema		From Raj to Swaraj: The Non-fiction film in India – B D Garga (English)
Best film critic		V K Joseph

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Cinema institutes in India

Institute	Location	Established
Asian Academy of Film and TV	Noida	1993
Film and Television Institute of India	Pune	1960
Whistling Woods International	Bombay	2006
Mindscreen Film Institute	Chennai	2006
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute	Calcutta	1995