All India Radio Bangalore, observed the golden jubilee of its founding on Wednesday evening with much nostalgia, though it is not the monarch of all that it surveyed on the news and views scene as was the case in 1955 with the advent of TV channels and also private broadcasters.
The primacy given to the radio those days is apparent from the fact that the AIR functions from a building opposite Raj Bhavan and close to the Vidhana Soudha. The building had been donated to the Government of India by the illustrious former Dewan of Mysore Sir Mirza Ismail who owned two adjacent bungalows on Cubbon Road (now the stretch is called Raj Bhavan Road).
It has been a sea change for AIR from the days of rigid control of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in those days (1955) of the puritanical Minister B.V. Keskar to partial autonomy under the present Prasar Bharati dispensation.
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