Emrc
Anna University
Chennai
University Grants Commission (UGC) - Country Wide Class Room (CWCR)
As early as in 1984 University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi has launched Country Wide Class Room (CWCR) and production facilities at 6 universities in India through establishing media centres in the name of Audio Visual Research Centres (AVRCs) (AVRCS) (later these centres have been renamed as Educational Multimedia Research Centres (EMMRCS). read more..
The station also gets content from the National Institute for Visually Handicapped, REACH, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, etc. The station also gives its programmes free for upcoming community radio stations in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry where the language is predominantly Tamil, and also shares content through the website www.edaa.in.
Anna University is the first University to take up the idea of India's University Grants Commission (UGC) to start MSc (Electronic Media) Programmes. It offers a five-year integrated MSc programme and a two-year MSc programme in Electronic Media. The Department of Media Sciences was started in Janurary 2002, branching off from the UGC'S Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC).read more.