Who were the founders of the Indian Broadcasting Company in 1927 later turned as All India Radio ?

Answer 1

The Indian State Broadcasting Service (ISBS) with a station in Bombay was set up in April 1930 under the Department of Industries and Labour. After initial financial struggle, ISBS started making profits from 1932 as the number of sets gradually increased. ISBS was renamed All India Radio (AIR) in June 1936. With the outbreak of the World War II in 1939, six more stations at Peshawar, Lahore, Lucknow, Madras, Dhaka and Karachi were added. Principal stations at Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay were provided with short wave transmitters. During the World War II the activities were diversified. For countering German propaganda a centralised External Service and a News Service were started. In 1947, the primary coverage of All India Radio was limited to less than 10% of the country's area and the total number of licensed radio sets was about three hundred thousand.

Dhaka station of All India Radio put its programmes on air from a rented house in Nazimuddin Road, now Seikh Borhanuddin College, on 16 December 1939. The station was opened by Sher-e-Bangla ak fazlul huq. The first item of its broadcast was a message in English by Poet rabindranath tagore. The transmission used to start at 5 p.m. and closed at 10 p.m. A Marconi 5-KW transmitter was installed at Kalyanpur. Its range was 20 to 25 miles by night and 30 to 45 miles by day. Bangladesh Betar now preserves this old transmitter as a memento in their museum. The first director of the Dhaka station was Dr. Amulya Chandra Sen who served here for two years (1939-41).

Answer 2

The Indian government at the time, since it is a public owned
company.