GRAMOPHONE COMPANY BROADCASTS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 13, 14 October 1927, Page 2

GRAMOPHONE COMPANY BROADCASTS

An agreement has been signed between the Columbia Gramophone Company of London and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, whereby the former assumes control of a chain of sixteen American and Canadian broadcasting stations. It will be the second largest wireless chain in the world, it is announced, stretching from the Rockies to the Atlantic Coast, with stations at New York, Boston, Chicago and all the principal American industrial cities. The British .company will broadcast its own musical programmes in direct competition with the National HSroadcasting Company, and British soloists, instrumentalists © and orchestras are being engaged to tcur America for the wireless circuit. a ee ome