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]] All India Radio (abbreviated as AIR), officially known as Akashvani (Devanagari
Devanagari

, or 'Nagari', is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal. It is written from left to right, lacks distinct letter cases, and is recognizable by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together....
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Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 broadcaster of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 and a division of Prasar Bharati
Prasar Bharati

Prasar Bharati is India's largest public broadcasting. It is an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India and comprises Doordarshan television network and All India Radio....
 (Broadcasting Corporation of India), an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
Government of India

The Government of India , officially referred to as the Union Government, and also as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of States and territories of India, collectively called the Republic of India....
. Established in 1936, , today, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan
DoorDarshan

Doordarshan is the public television Broadcasting of India and a division of Prasar Bharati, a public service broadcaster nominated by the Government of India....
, the national television broadcaster.

The word Akashavani was coined by Professor Dr. M.V. Gopalaswamy for his radio station in Mysore during 1936.

All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks in the world.






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, Karnataka
Karnataka

Karnataka is a States and territories of India in the southern part of India. It was Unification of Karnataka on November 1, 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act....
]] All India Radio (abbreviated as AIR), officially known as Akashvani (Devanagari
Devanagari

, or 'Nagari', is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal. It is written from left to right, lacks distinct letter cases, and is recognizable by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together....
: ????????, akashavani)is the radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 broadcaster of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 and a division of Prasar Bharati
Prasar Bharati

Prasar Bharati is India's largest public broadcasting. It is an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India and comprises Doordarshan television network and All India Radio....
 (Broadcasting Corporation of India), an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
Government of India

The Government of India , officially referred to as the Union Government, and also as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of States and territories of India, collectively called the Republic of India....
. Established in 1936, , today, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan
DoorDarshan

Doordarshan is the public television Broadcasting of India and a division of Prasar Bharati, a public service broadcaster nominated by the Government of India....
, the national television broadcaster.

The word Akashavani was coined by Professor Dr. M.V. Gopalaswamy for his radio station in Mysore during 1936.

All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks in the world. The headquarters is at the Akashwani Bhavan, New Delhi
New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. With a total area of 42.7 km2, New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi and serves as the seat of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi ....
. Akashwani Bhavan houses the drama section, the FM section and the National service. The Doordarshan
DoorDarshan

Doordarshan is the public television Broadcasting of India and a division of Prasar Bharati, a public service broadcaster nominated by the Government of India....
 Kendra (Delhi
Delhi

Delhi , sometimes referred to as Dilli , is the List of most populous cities in India metropolis in India and, with over 11 million residents, the List of metropolitan areas by population....
) is also located on the 6th floor of Akashvani Bhavan.

During his regular broadcasts from the Azad Hind Radio
Azad Hind Radio

Azad Hind Radio was a propaganda radio service that was started in leadership of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Germany in 1942 to encourage Indians to fight for freedom....
, Subhas Chandra Bose used to refer to the pre-independence AIR as Anti Indian Radio.

Services

AIR has many different services each catering to different regions/languages across India. One of the most famous services of the AIR is the Vividh Bharati Seva (roughly translating to "Multi-Indian service"). Vividh Bharati celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 3 October 2007. Vividh Bharati has the only comprehensive database of songs from the so termed "Golden Era" of Hindi film music (roughly from 1940s to 1980s). This service is the most commercial of all and is popular in Mumbai
Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
 and other cities of India. This service offers a wide range of programmes including news, film music, comedy shows, etc. The Vividh Bharti service operates on different MW
Mediumwave

Medium Wave is a part of the Medium frequency radio band used mainly for AM broadcasting. Some experiments and trials are planned or under way for a digital modulation such as Digital Radio Mondiale ....
 band frequencies for each city as shown below
All India Radio

File:AIR FM Tower Mangalore 0203.jpgAll India Radio , officially known as Akashvani is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati , an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India....
.

Some programs broadcast on the Vividh Bharti:
  • Hawa-mahal - Skit (Radio Play) based on some novels/plays.
  • Santogen ki mehfil - Jokes & humour.


The following is a partial list of AIR services.

East regional service


Full list: http://www.allindiaradio.org/schedule/freq_er.html
  • Bhagalpur 1458 kHz
  • Cuttack 'A' 972 kHz
  • Darbhanga 1296 kHz
  • Jamshedpur 1544kHs
  • Kolkata 'A' 657 kHz
  • Kolkata 'B' 1008 kHz
  • Kolkata 'C' 1323 kHz
  • Patna 'A' 621 kHz
  • Ranchi 'A' 549 kHz
  • AIR FM Kolkata has two stations 107FM Rainbow and 100.2FM Gold.
These stations broadcast live programmes in Bangla, English and Hindi. See http://kolkatarjratings.blogspot.com

North-east regional service

Full list: http://www.allindiaradio.org/schedule/freq_ner.html
  • Agartala 1269 kHz
  • Guwahati 'A' 729 kHz
  • Shillong 864 kHz


West regional service

Full list: http://www.allindiaradio.org/schedule/freq_wr.html
  • Ahmedabad 'A' 86.7 MHz
  • Aurangabad 1521 kHz
  • Bhopal 'A' 1593 kHz
  • Chhatarpur 675 kHz
  • Gwalior 1386 kHz
  • Indore 'A' 648 kHz
  • Jalgaon 963 kHz
  • Mumbai 'A' 1044 kHz
  • Mumbai 'B' 558 kHz
  • Nagpur 'A' 585 kHz
  • Panaji 'A' 1287 kHz
  • Pune 'A' 792 kHz
  • Rajkot 'A' 810 kHz
  • Ratnagiri 1143 kHz
  • Sholapur 1602 kHz
  • Sangli 1251 kHz


South regional service

Full list: http://www.allindiaradio.org/schedule/freq_sr.html
  • Adilabad 1485 kHz
  • Bangalore 'A' 612 kHz
  • Chennai 'A' 720 kHz
  • Coimbatore 999 kHz
  • Gulbarga 1107 kHz
  • Hyderabad 'A' 738 kHz
  • Hyderabad 'B' 1377 kHz
  • Kozhikode 'A' 684 kHz
  • Madurai 1269 kHz
  • Udhagamandalam 1602 kHz,187.2meter(wave length)
  • Pondicherry 1215 kHz
  • Port Blair 684 kHz
  • Thiruvananthapuram 'A' 1161 kHz
  • Ananthapuri FM 101.9 MHz (from Thiruvananthapuram)
  • Tiruchirapalli 'A' 936 kHz
  • Tirunelveli 1197 kHz
  • Vijayawada 'A' 837 kHz
  • Visakhapatnam 927 kHz
  • gautam456 kHz


External services

The External Services Division of All India Radio broadcasts in 27 languages to countries outside of India, primarily by high powered short wave broadcasts although medium wave is also used to reach neighbouring countries. In addition to broadcasts targeted at specific countries by language there is a General Overseas Service which broadcasts in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 with 8 1/4 hours of programming each day and is aimed at a general international audience.

Yuv-vani: The voice of youth

The Yuv-vani service of AIR provides an enriching and novel radio-experience by encouraging youth participation and experimenting with varied script ideas.It is broadcast at 1017 kHz which corresponds to 294.9 meter. Its Broadcast begins every evening at 7 pm. With shows like "Mehfil", "In the groove" and "The Roving Microphone" which have been around for more than three decades, Yuv-vani still holds a firm ground of its own.

Some of the big names on the Indian media scene began their journey with Yuv-vani. Comments Praful Thakkar, a well known documentary maker - "Yuv-vani came as a breath of fresh air in our reckless college days. It was a great learning experience for me and it made me realize that radio is not all about goofy quotes and PJs."

Some of the other names that have been associated with Yuv-vani in the past include Celebrity game show host Roshan Abbas, VJ Gaurav Kapoor, DJ Kaushal Khanna and DJ Pratham among others.

News-on-phone service

All India Radio, after launching the news-on-phone service on 25 February 1998 from New Delhi, is running the service from Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Patna and Bangalore also. The service is accessible through STD, ISD and local telephone calls. The service is going to be started from 9 more cities — Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Imphal, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Raipur, Simla and Thiruvanthapuram shortly.

English and Hindi hourly news bulletins can be heard live on http://www.newsonair.com. The news in MP3
MP3

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio Encoder format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players....
 format can be directly played from the site. In the file name the hourly time of news is mentioned. Text of the English and Hindi bulletins can be read from http://www.newsonair.com/BulletinsInd.html.

AIR news bulletins are available in 9 regional languages (Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi, North East, Punjabi, Telugu, Urdu) from http://www.newsonair.com/index_regional.htm.

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