IN SPOKANE VALLEY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 47, 8 June 1928, Page 13

IN SPOKANE VALLEY

LISTENERS-IN FOR WEST. _The demand of listeners for a diversity of programmes is illustrated in: a survey of the radio situation in Spokane, Wash., which has been submitted to Harold A. Lafount, member of the United States Federal Radio Commission from the Far West. Questionaires were sent to representative citizens in four sections of the city and in the Spokane valley. The survey was conducted independently of any broadcasting station and is believed to be representative of the radio situation in cities of the West, Lafount said. Eighty per cent. of the persons answering the questionnaires in the entire city said they owned radio sets. In the Spokane valley, 75 per cent. said they had radios. The percentage of those owning valve sets was 65.4, while 34.6 per cent. have crystal sets. A census of adults in homes who listened to the radio showed 62 per cent. of the homes had two adult listeners; 28 per cent three listeners; 11 per cent, four listeners; 5 per cent, five listeners; 3 per cent. one listener, and 1 per cent. six listeners. Forty per cent. of the homes had two child listeners ; 34 per cent. had one listener ; 19 per cent. three listeners; 5 per cent, four listeners, and 2 per cent, five listeners.