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Friday, July 26, 2013

The wonder that was Radio

Source: The New Indian Express |  By Express News Service - CHENNAI
25th July 2013 11:03 AM


It has been 86 years since All India Radio was started in India. To mark the occasion, a special postal cover was released. | Albin Mathew/EPS
It has been 86 years since All India Radio was started in India. To mark the occasion, a special postal cover was released. | Albin Mathew/EPS

It was a celebration of 86 years since electricity crackled through the capacitors and amplifiers of the Indian Broadcasting Company's Bombay transmitter station on July 23, 1927, bringing to life the first radio station in Bombay.

Tributes poured in, highlighting the glorious era of Radio when it was the sole medium of entertainment before the advent of television, at a function here.

At a programme held to mark the anniversary, former Supreme Court Judge S Mohan walked down memory lane highlighting how it...........

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