All India Radio,Nagpur enters 60th Year

From dnaindia.com ...............

UNI
Monday, July 16, 2007 10:39 IST
The Nagpur Centre of All India Radio (AIR) plans to
start several new programmes, which would be the
first of their kind in Maharashtra, as it enters
the 60th year of its existence on Monday.
Station Director Dr Chetan P Naik told UNI that
the first day of the jubilee year would be marked
with a special programme to be broadcast from 0900
hrs to 1000 hrs on July 16.
The new programmes include a phone-in show
featuring people’s representatives from Vidarbha,
a tele-quiz, a tele-Antakshari, documentary
features on the tribes in the region and a ‘roaming
microphone’ broadcast. “Other centres in India
already have such programmes, but Nagpur will become
the first among the 21 in Maharashtra to have them,’’
Naik said.
‘Hello Janatantra’ would be a live phone-in programme
featuring ministers in the Union and the State
cabinets, members of Parliament and members of the
legislature, from Vidarbha answering questions from
the audience, he said.
The live tele-quiz would involve listeners calling
in on the telephone and being asked questions by
the host, and winning prizes for correct answers.
There were plans to host an ‘Antakshari’ show, also
live, in which members of the audience could
participate by calling in on the telephone and
singing a song beginning from the last letter of
the one played out from the studio, he said.
“There will be three participants on line at a time.
Each participant will have to sing three songs within
30 seconds to win a prize,’’ Dr Naik said, adding that
later, the winners from each episode would be similarly
featured live in the final part of the show. Dr Naik
said that the centre would produce documentary features
on each of the 16 major tribes in Vidarbha as part of
the diamond jubilee celebrations. Each episode would
highlight the language, culture, social practices
and rituals of a particular tribe, he said.
The roaming microphone programme would take the radio
to the doorstep of the people, and, therefore, had
been aptly titled ‘Radio Aaplya Daari’ or ‘Radio With
You’, he said.

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