Radio: Who Knew it Could be So Hot? Sometimes, innovation means making the old new again, and in the process an entire country is transformed. A.P. "Preetham" Parigi, managing director of Entertainment Network (India) Limited (ENIL), and managing director and CEO of Times Infotainment Media Limited, will be awarded the 2009 William F. Glaser '53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Witness a story of Social Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Global Impact and the Revival of an "Old Technology" in an emerging country. 200 Million Listeners. 32 Cities. 10 Languages. Radio was a ubiquitous, but ignored, technology at the time of Radio Mirchi's launch in 2000 when India privatized the radio industry. State radio covered 98 percent of India, but it ignored the 600 million Indians under the age of 30. It was this reality that fueled Parigi's passion that Radio Mirchi could become a "hot" brand in the world's second most populous country, and set the tone for what would be the birth of a whole new kind of media company.