Radio
Karnataka is the location of the first private radio broadcasting station in India when Akashvani (meaning voice from the sky) was set up in Mysore on September 10, 1935 in the premises of M.V. Gopalaswamy, a professor of psychology. In 1957, the name Akashvani was chosen as the official name of the All India Radio which is the radio broadcaster of the Government of India. Some of the path-breaking Kannada programs broadcast by All India Radio include Nisarga Sampada and Sasya Sanjeevini, which taught science through songs, plays and stories and it became so popular that the entire series was recorded in cassettes and distributed to around 5,000 schools by the Government of Karnataka. It was translated into 18 languages and broadcast from various stations across the country and the BBC even sent a team to make a study of this series. The advent of FM in Karnataka started when Radio City FM started broadcasting in Bangalore on July 3, 2001. All India Radio has its own FM channel called FM Rainbow. Now commercial FM channels are operating in Bangalore, Mangalore and Mysore.
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