Sunday afternoon, after a heavy lunch, wife and kid are having a siesta. That gave me the time to go online and make the earlier entry.
I had completed the entry earlier today, was sitting back and my thoughts drifted to my childhood days in Trivandrum. Something crossed my mind and I just had to jot it down right away and share with you now.
Back in the early eighties when we in Kerala did not have television, Keltron made some test transmissions as a forerunner to the set up of DD in Kerala. I do not remember exactly how long the tests ran, but I do remember that the standard format of the tests were – 30 mins of cartoons for kids followed by a movie. The timings were from five in the evening. Very convenient for us kids. Most of the movies were classics and we had lots of fun. We used to stay in a flat near Statue and there was one television in the building (the television belonged to a Keltron employee), evenings were fun with us kids (and sometimes mothers as well) gathering in their drawing room to watch the daily dose of TV.
A few months later the authorities deemed the tests successful, Keltron stopped the transmissions and DD was set up in Trivandrum
No comments:
Post a Comment