All-India Radio-Chennai, will
celebrated completing of 80 years of service as a public broadcaster this year.
Established in 1938, it has the distinction of being one of the six AIR stations
operational at the time of Independence.
AIR started with two channels and
now has six terrestrial and 3 DTH and Digital Radio Mondiale channels. To mark
the occasion, the Chennai station of AIR broadcasted special programmes,
including the journey of Light and Carnatic Music in AIR Chennai, selected
topics of Thenkachi K Swaminathan's Indru Oru Thagaval and 80 years of
reminiscences from other fields.
