News Broadcasting
AIR Internet service set for facelift
Prasar Bharati has invited global tenders from Internet facility providers to upgrade the AIR Internet service to a multi-channel multi-lingual Internet radio station providing streaming audio.
The planning and development unit of the pubcaster has publicly invited commercial offers for the overhaul of All India Radio, so far a public service broadcaster focussed on educational and entertainment programmes.
With the private sector poised to invade the airwaves via FM, the government seems to be gearing up for the challenge by providing multi-lingual streaming audio.
The tender documents are available at Akashwani Bhavan, New Delhi from 11 March. An earnest money deposit of Rs 50,000 accompanies the tender documents, the deadline for which is 12 pm on 16 April.
News Broadcasting
Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
