- History created in Madras city on May 16, 1924 when Madras Presidency Radio Club (MPRC) transmitted India’s first radio broadcasting programme
- Programme broadcast from Madras City’s Ripon Buildings at the initiative of C.V. Krishnaswami Chetti, corporation engineer trained in Manchester
- Idea was to promote study of radio communications in presidency through MPRC, wireless sets came from British Marconi Telegraph Wireless Company
- All India Radio station came up in Madras nine years later
- Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/the-humble-origins-of-radio-broadcast-in-india/article6042867.ece
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