RADIO IN CANADA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 43, 11 May 1928, Page 15

RADIO IN CANADA

146,000 LICENSED LISTENERS. Canada has at the resent time about 1,000,000 radio fans who listen-in regue larly and listen to the programmes ‘of broadcasting stations of the North American Continent, This estimate is based on figures supplied by the Government Radio Department, which shows diat up to the end of November last year, 116,186 owners of receiving sets in the Dominion had paid the ane nual license fee. A conservative calculation is that only 50 per cent of the radio ownera pay the fee, which means there are approximately 300,000 radio seis in Canada. If there is an average of three pcrsons listenine-in on each set, there are nearly 1,000,000 Canadians whe heard the wild waves of Toronto, the mighty voice of the St. Lawrence from Prescott, the murmer of Calgary chine ooks, or the howl of the coyote frome Winnipeg or Regina Radio is in its infancy and the manufacturers of sets in Tororito, Hamilton, Mentreal and other Canadian cities are probably figuring on a potential consumption of not less than 1,000,000 recciving set within the next few years.