A lot is happening
in Glasgow, Scotland, the host city of the Commonwealth Games-2014. Besides broadcasting
live commentaries, periodic FM updates and daily highlights covering the sports
action, All India Radio has also been interacting with people in and around Glasgow
and highlighting various facets of life in Scotland to listeners back home
through the programme “Post Card from Glasgow”. After all, Commonwealth
Games are also known as the ‘friendly Games’.
On 30.07.2014, AIR
was the fastest in the arena, transmitting breaking news instantly every time India
won a medal in Wrestling. Listeners were kept constantly updated with the
latest from the Badminton courts where our players moved to the pre-Quarters
and the Boxing ring where five of our boxers have assured the country a medal
each. Performance of Indians in Athletics, Artistic Gymnastics, Squash and
Table Tennis was also highlighted. AIR also broadcast live commentary of the
Women’s Hockey match between India and South Africa.
The Daily Highlights
at 7.05 am had a bouquet of sound bites of prominent Indian performers
including Gold medallist wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sushil Kumar, Amit Kumar and
silver medallist Rajiv Tomar, as also
those of silver medallist shooters Harpreet Singh and Sanjiv Rajput and bronze
medallists Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Gagan Narang and Lajja Goswami. Chandrakant Dadu Mali (Silver medallist in Weightlifting),
India’s Men’s Hockey captain Sardar Singh and Coach Terry Walsh, and almost all
Indian boxers who moved into the next round also featured in this highlights
capsule.
Programme “Post Card
from Glasgow” which was broadcast late night on 30.07.2014 contained short chat
and sound bites featuring people of Indian and Asian origin presently in
Glasgow and technical aspects of broadcasting from Glasgow.
AIR has created an
e-mail account airatglasgow@gmail.com
for receiving feedback from listeners on its Commonwealth Games broadcasts. Contents
of some e-mail messages received so far are reproduced here:-
Dharmendra Kumar from Delhi:
“Main apka programme
daily sunta hun 11.30 baje mujhe apka programme
bahut acchha lagta hai aur mere bahut se dost bhi sunte hain. Aap jab
dusre deshoan ke logoan se milte hain aur bharat ke bare nmein puchte hain to
mujhe bahut khushi hoti hai’ it is very interesting and informative isi liye main chahta hun ki yadi aap is programme ka
samay thora aur badha den to bahut acchha rahega.”
Gaurav Kumar from Delhi:
“AIR Team doing a great job at
Glasgow and you are sending lot of Information from Glasgow. You mentioned
about the visit of Prince Edward.. Can you post these pictures on your Facebook
page of AIR? Can you post AIR's team picture with their respective name on your
official Facebook page.”
Ujjwal Goyal from Delhi:
“Dear AIR Glasgow team. You are doing such a fabulous
job by broadcasting the live matches commentary and postcard session and
morning session at 7:05 am at AIR. I want to wish thanks to you all
for that. I am a student and apart from studies, i follow the live matches commentary
and morning show but am unable to listen the postcard which is the most
entertaining ... as it is broadcast at 11:30pm. Will you please manage to
repeat that programme on the next day?”
Jitender Dubey:
“These programmes are very entertaining
and I follow it both in the evening and morning. No other means of
broadcasting is better than AIR. I love
AIR.”
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