National Broadcasting Day

• National Broadcasting Day is celebrated every year on 23 July in India.

• On this day in 1927, a private Indian broadcasting company began the first radio broadcast in the country from a Bombay station.

• Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio in the 1890s.

• In India, National Broadcasting Day commemorates the evolution of the broadcasting landscape in the nation since its inception in 1927.

• India's broadcasting history began with the first broadcast made by the Radio Club of Bombay in June 1923