Topical Events

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 51, 5 July 1929, Page 9

Topical Events

ROADCASTING in France has been rather in the melting-pot of late, owing to the fact that attempts have been made to regularise it and place it upon a more standard basis. A thorough investigation has been carried out by the Paris Chamber ‘of Commerce, and some important proposals have been put forward for the conduct of broadcasting. The principal recommendation is that equal representation should be given :to the listener, the trade and ‘the Government. The Paris Chamber of Commerce has also suggested that broadcast advertisements should. be taxed so as to provide a source of revenue, and, furthermore, that two additional wireless taxes should be imposed, one upon the listener and the other upon valves. "THE Indian Broadcasting Company shows a loss of £16,125 for the past year. So far, the total loss sustained by the company is £28,650. :The directors of the company assert that the loss would have been much less

but for two important disabilities under which the company suffers. Im spite of the protections undertaken by the Government against persons found possessing wireless receiving sets without licenses, says the "Times," there is still a good deal of piracy, which deprives the company of legitimate reyenue. The company is aise unable to collect all the amounts due as the 10 per cent. tax on wireless im ports. Q)NE of London’s oldest collegesKing’s College-has to struggle consistently against financial difficulty, though its teaching has been as ads vanced as in those universities where an endvu,vment capital is assured. Some of the discoveries, inventions and investigations made in the laboratories there during the last hundred years are: electric telegraph, Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone, F.R.S., and W. F. Cooke; invention of Daniell cell, J. F,. Daniell, F.R.S.; and the discovery of the existence of electro-magneti¢ waves, Professor James Clerk. Max well, F.R.S. :