Radio Developments

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 October 1929, Page 3

Radio Developments

HB next big move by the Australian Broadcasting Company will be right across the continent to Perth, where they commence operations at 6WF early in September. 5CL, Adelaide, will not come within their activities until early next year, but in the meantime 4QG, Brisbane, will be taken over. The last studio to come within their jurisdiction will be 7ZL, Hobart, but that will not be until the end of 1930. LARGE American concern have opened a station in Washington, built exclusively for the transmission f pictures to the public by radio. It #®" believed that this is the only station in. existence at present -built for broadcasting pictures.only. The television audience is estimated at 20,000, but as the station intends to enlarge its power, this number is: ‘expected to increase far beyond this. TH Soviet of Russia has concentrated on the development of radio in the country and though considerable progress has been made, the number of licensed listeners is not in proportion to a population of 150,000,000. In the Soviet there are now 326,285 radio sets of which over 44,000 are in the villages. The broadcasting is not only devoted to entertainment, but political propaganda plays a large part in the programme of all stations.