Radio Communication at Close Range

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Future of radio news. 3. Turning point. 4. Expansion of news. 5. Convergent journalism. 6. National Conference of Heads of RNUs. 7. Scheme of Part Time Correspondents (PTCs). 8. Public service broadcasting and new features. 9. Samar Basu Memorial Lecture. 10. Proceedings of the Workshop on future challenges before radio news. 11. Radio in India : not only a come back but also a leap forward. 12. Public relations and societal communication today. Appendix-Bose Marconi Controversy. Annexures. Index.

“In the rapidly changing technological scenario and the advent of televisionchannels, internet and pod casting, the very survival of radio as a media is under serious question. Dr. Pradipto Bandyopadhyay, the architect of many path-breaking initiatives in News Services Division, All India Radio during 2006-09 is of the view that conventional radio and its role as a public service broadcaster and going to stay in India in the foreseeable future. There has been a paradigm shift in AIR’s style of presentation and content during the period.

Dr. Bandyopadhyay has documented the changes and their inside story in an interesting first person account before they are lost in oblivion and become a subject matter of the probing archaeological experts. Radio’s content must have a structure, which Dr. Bandyopadhyay has described as ‘sound sculpture’. It will remain relevant to any discerning listener from the toiling masses in the field, the elite and ever the alienated individuals with loneliness syndromes, to the group and individualists alike.

Radio Communication at close range has delved deep into the whole gamut of issues concerning radio right from Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose to the present day workers of AIR. It is a saga of radio’s comeback and a sure step ahead in fulfillment of man’s information needs.”