RADIO IN RUSSIA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 26, 13 January 1928, Page 5

RADIO IN RUSSIA

Although it is not, perhaps. genefally appreciated, Russians are active in the broadcasting field, and since 1024, when broadcasting started in Russia, they succeeded in building in Eurcpean Soviet Russia forty broadcasting stations, among which are several which would be classified as high-power stations. The accompanying list shows where these stations are located, their wavelength and their aerial power There are uo call letters assigned to the stations, the announcer merely saying: "Hello, hello, this is Moscow speaking, station Komintern," or "Popoff’s Memorial Station,’’ or simply stating the name of the organisation which operates the station, As there are but few localities having more than one station the naming of the locality in most cases is quite sufficient to identify the broadcaster.

SINGLE CONTROL. i According to the latest reports, the Department of Pest and ‘Telegraph, which has charge of all broadcasting in Russia, recently concluded an agreement with a semi-official concern, ‘Radioperedatcha, I,td.,’"? whereby the latter, assumed the management and operation of all forty stations. Previous to that this concern managed and operated eighteen Russian broadcasting stations, including all the high-powered ones. Present plans indicate an intention, first of all, to improve existing facilities, for hooking up stations over the land wires and to extend them further, as well as to develop reliable rebroadcasting. combining as far as possible all stations in a single network. |

STATIONS IN THREE GROUPS. In accordatce with these plans, all stations will be divided into three groups: Central stations, whose time will be filled with their own programme ; regional statiuns, which will have half of their programme supplied by the central stations, and finally small local stations, which will receive as mucli as three-quarters of their programme material from the central stations. In this way it is expected to improve programmes of stations in small localities, which now have to depend on their local talent. In the coming festivities connected with the tenth antiiversary of the RevyoIution, radio is to play an extensive part. Special programmes have been prepared, in which the significance of this anniversary will be explained to the population, and during the holidays all stations will broadcast special meetings and exercises, as well as plays, especially written for this occasion. ,

*KXnown as *Targe Komintern,"" tKnown as "Sntall Komitntern,’* {Popofl’s Memorial Station,

Wave- length Power Meters . KW_ Hoscow" 1450 40 Moscowt 1450 20 Moscow 675 20 Charkov 1760 12 Leningrad 1000 10 Clarkov 440 Rostov 830 Tiflis 830 1 Ufa 91550) Petrosavodsk 700 2 N. Novgorod 840 1 8 V. Tstug 1010 1,2 Minsk 500 1_ 2 Gomel 925 1.2 Twer 9655 122 Samara 700 1,2 Voronej 95() 12 Artemovsk 780 1.2 (dlessa 100 1.2 Stalin 0 1.22 Stavropol 1.2 Nalchik C5o 1.2 Irivan 950) 1.2 Baku 750 1,.2 Vologda 7(0) 1,2 Kursk 750 1.0 Orenhurg Ac0 1.0 Poltava 750 1.0 Iniepropetrovsk 625 1.0 Krasnodar 613 1.0 Armavir 850 1.0 Astrachan 70 1.0 Machatcll-Kala 650 1,0 Ivanovo-Vosnesetlsk: SOO 0.9 Moscow 450 9.8 Kiev 775 0.6 Sverciovsk I05o 0,5 Leningrad 150 0,35 Saratov 420 0.20 Orechovo-Suevo 850 0,08