FIRST APPEARANCE OF TV - 377

        TV MAKING ITS FIRST APPEARANCE IN     

                               OUR LIVES 
                             
Certain things or items become a part of our lives and it becomes increasingly impossible to imagine a life without them .
One such item is the TELEVISION set .

We were all residing at the Madura Coats  Company   Quarters  at VK PURAM in 
Papanasam . 
In the early 1980 s , we would envy the people of the Metro Cities who had access to DOORDARSHAN Programs on their TV . A sizeable proportion  of them even had Coloured Television Sets .
News started trickling in of Srilanka s ROOPAVAHINI being available with very high antennas and powerful double boosters . The higher the mast or post , clearer the reception. A joke was often doing the rounds that one could literally See Sri Lanka if one could somehow reach the top the Antenna Mast .




My nephew Ravi  from Russia was gracious enough to present me  with a Black and White Television Set with a screen Size all of FOUR INCHES .  This was almost the First Television Set in the Colony . An 80 feet high antenna and a booster brought the  ROOPAVAHINI in  to our house . No words can describe the thrill of watching the action on the screen for the first time .

News got around and  Colony Club first and a few other inmates of the colony started making enquiries and installed Television Sets in their houses .
Colony Club had a 24 Inches Solidaire Black and White set installed . DOORDARSHAN was still a fair distance away with the Kodaikanal Tower which was still under installation.

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE
UK comedy serial

COSMOS
Carl Sagan

WEDNESDAY TAMIL MOVIE 
 Thillana Mohanambal is still fresh in my mind

FIFA 1982 WOLD CUP FINAL
Paolo Rossi s Magic with the Foot , 

All these on Roopavahini were  quite a favorite with everyone .

 Over Time , I too became a sort of a  technician who could be entrusted with the task of Installing the Antenna and the Booster . Many houses in the colony had the same installed and erected by me .

January 14 th 1987 , Kodaikanal TV Tower was linked to DD Chennai and the rest as they say is history .
Black and White has given way to Colour , Antenna has now  become a clothes line on the terrace and the Booster an Antique Piece gathering dust in the attic if it has still not been disposed off . Dish Antenna and cable TV are the IN  thing now . It is now possible to create A Home Theater and Watch the Proceedings on the wide wall inside the comfort of  our  home .

ROOPAVAHINI FIRST AND THEN  DOORDARSHAN
 OPENED THE DOOR FOR THE  UMPTEEN PRIVATE CHANNELS THAT WE SEE AND ARE A PART OF OUR LIFE NOW .







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