All India Radio (AIR), Chennai will celebrate its platinum jubilee on Tuesday next.
Giving details about the celebrations, K. P. Srinivasan, Additional Director General, AIR, Chennai, said the station in Chennai was started in June, 1938.
When it was started, the station was functioning from Marshalls Road, Egmore and it moved to its present location in July 1954.
The AIR station is in the process of converting some of its old spool tapes containing speeches by political leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Sathyamoorthy, Kamaraj and Indira Gandhi, musical disco
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Classical music enthusiasts and talented young musicians can rejoice as maestros of Indian classical music, like Prof T N Krishnan, Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Begum Parween Sultana, Vidwan T V Shankarnaraynan, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, Us. Amjad Ali Khan and Vidushi Vedavalli, will come together to judge a Doordarshan reality show, hosted by Shabhana Azmi.
The show, titled ‘Naad Bhed’, is organised by the Society of Promotion of Indian Classical Music, in association with Doordarshan. The participants will be selected through competitions at 20 regional Doordarshan kendras, with quarterfinals being conducted
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