All India Radio, Chennai Celebrates 75 years(June 1938 - June 2013)

The station was first opened on Marshall’s Road in Egmore on June 16, 1938 by Rajaji, then premier of the Madras Presidency

The station moved to the Mylapore premises on July 19, 1954

The popular Vividh Bharathi programme was begun in 1957

A FM channel was started  in 1977

The station holds over 20,000 tapes of music, drama, talk, shows and specials. The key tapes have been digitized and some Carnatic music concerts of the greats have also been on sale

All India Radio’s Chennai station in Mylapore turns 75 and to mark this milestone, AIR broadcast the speech that Rajaji made at the launch of this radio station. The broadcast was on AIR’s Chennai A ( 720kHz) channel at 7 am on June 16,2013

The public function to mark the 75 years at Vani Mahal, T Nagar will see the bigwigs of Prasar BHarati and AIR participate. Senior broadcasters will be decorated on June 18,2013