<P> The primary US objective was to test the design and functioning of an efficient, medium - power, wide bandspace - borne FM transmitter, operating in the 800--900 MHz band and gain experience on the utilisation of this space application . </P> <P> A joint ISRO - NASA working group was established even before the Memorandum of Understanding was signed . This working group studied the possibility of using a communications satellite for TV broadcast in India . After the MoU was signed, many review meetings were held between NASA and ISRO scientists . Indian scientists visited NASA to study front - end converters and earth station operations . On India's request, the INTELSAT - III and Arvi Earth Station organisation agreed to provide free satellite time for pre-SITE testing . </P> <P> The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) provided assistance of $500,000 for setting up the Experimental Satellite Communications Earth Station (ESCES) at Ahmedabad and nominated the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as the executing agency for this project . The UNDP provided another $1.5 million, for setting up a TV studio at Ahmedabad and a TV transmitter at Pij in Kheda district . It also gave assistance for setting up a TV Training Institute to train many of the programme production staff who would join All India Radio to work on SITE . UNESCO was the executing agency for this project . UNICEF contributed to SITE by sponsoring 21 film modules produced by Shyam Benegal, a noted Indian filmmaker . This resulted in a lot of interaction between filmmakers and folk - artists . Shyam Benegal went on to include many of these artists in his children's feature film Charandas Chor (1975). </P> <P> The production of the television programmes was decentralised, with three Base Production Centres located at Delhi, Cuttack and Hyderabad, and an ISRO studio located in Mumbai . Each of the centres had a production studio, three IVC tape recorders, two 16 mm . projectors, a slide Projector in Telecine and audio equipment like tape desks and turntables . Each centre also had 2--3 full - fledged synchronised sound camera units, an editing table (Delhi had two) and a film processing plant . There was also a sound dubbing studio equipped with a pilot tone recording plant and an audio mixing console . </P>

Unesco satellite directed television program was used first