Tuesday, January 01, 2013

CMJ to Akashvani

Reading about CMJ's(Christopher Martin-Jenkins) sad demise brought memories not only of all the evenings spent in North Bihar village, every summer listening to TMS on Shortwave Radio.Later TMS moved off Short wave and I discovered it on the net in 2000. CMJ had been a firm and lucid in his comments and his loss will be mourned by all his listeners.

However listening to All India Radio commentary this season has been a revelation. Not only the commentators give you their opinion on subjects ranging from Ganguly as India coach and Kumble as Team Director, they also inform us on how M J Gopalan played both Hockey and Cricket and chose the1936             series over the Berlin Olympics.This is a world far different from the TV commentary, which includes a former AIR commentator, but refuses to call a spade a spade while the Radio commentators do not even hesitate to call it a shovel.The TV feed is usually late by  a  ball than AIR's and while this sustantiates s AIR's claim to be the authentic and the only radio news provider it becomes difficult watching TV with sound switched off and radio commentary playing along. For a change though it helps in seeing things with the knowledge of what is to happen.

I wish All India Radio finds a home for its commentary on the internet and refrains from doing off tube broadcasts.Sponsorship will follow and a core team like TMS will help.

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