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THE Indian Broadcasting Co. opened a station at Bombay in July, 1927. After suffering many vicissitudes it was taken over by the Government of India in April 1930. On the celebration in the last week in July of the sixth anniversary of the founding of broadcasting, Sir Frederick Sykes, Governor of Bombay, laid stress on the importance of broadcasting in India. The great difficulty the Indian Government has to contend against is to get in touch with the masses in order to explain policies and give authoritative news of public events. The future working of democratic schemes in India depends on accurate news being broadcast. A few experiments with selected sets in up-country centres have been made, but an elaborate organisation is required to develop all-India broadcasting and it will take time to build this up. A serious difficulty to be overcome is the prevalence of piracy. Although registration and licence fees in Bombay amount to only ten rupees a year, it is believed that about fifty per cent of the listeners-in are ‘pirates’. As many modern sets work without an aerial, it is particularly difficult to bring the pirates to book. An officer has power to inspect and search houses and a severe penalty is exacted, but the evil still exists.
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Broadcasting in India. Nature 132, 343–344 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132343c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132343c0