All India Radio, officially called Akashvani, is India’s national public radio broadcaster. It is one of two wings of the country’s public service broadcasting corporation, Prasar Bharati, with the other being Doordarshan, its television counterpart. All India Radio was established as the Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) in 1930. In 1935 Lionel Fielden, a senior producer at the BBC, was appointed controller of broadcasting at ISBS. A year later ISBS was renamed All India Radio and aired its first broadcast on January 19, 1936.
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