India Begins TV Broadcasts
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW DELHI, September 10. President Rajendra Prasad of India today inaugurated in New Delhi the country’s first regular television programme, American Associated Press reported. The scheme was sponsored under a £9OOO sterling grant from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. The programme will be on the air for two hours every Tuesday and Friday. Describing it as a “big experiment,” the President said he hoped it would ‘‘broaden popular outlook and bring people into line with scientific thinking.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 18 September 1959, Page 9
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