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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 5, 19 August 1927, Page 3

A company has been formed in Africa to take over the bankrupt South African stations under the protection of a Government monopoly for a period of five years, according to Radio Broadcast magazine. Stock will be offered to the public. ‘The interests backing the plan are in control of the most iniportant South African theatres, and they promise better programmes, which should discourage the extensive evasion of license payments, the reef on which the original broadcasting plan was wrecked. When he imposed fines of £2 each on two Aberdeenshire radio ‘‘pirates’’ (owners of sets for which the license is unpaid) the sheriff was told by the prosecutor that fines of £10 had been imposed in recent English cases. The sheriff replied, that heavier fines might be required to bring Englishmen to their senses, but he hoped the Scotsman, with his appreciation of the value of money, would come to his senses through the imposition of a much smaller fine. -‘Amateur Wireless," London.