A Huge Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 21, 6 December 1929, Page 4

A Huge Broadcast

-_- In Schools throughout America qt has been estimated that more than 175,000 children in the public schools of NewYork listened-in recently to the first of a series of lecture-con-certs on "Music Appreciation." These broadcasts, "which are to be presented for three years, now form a regular part of the curriculum of most of the schools in America. Officials of the National Broadcast-

‘ing Company, whose stations broadcast the concert throughout the United States, estimated that as well as the children of New York,-nearly 5,000,000 pupils in America and adjoining countries heard the programme. More than 50,000 class rooms and auditoriums in every State in America were linked by specially-installed receivers’ to the broadeast, which travelled over a net-. work of sixty-two transmitters. It was said to have been the largest network ever employed for an educational programme in the history of radio broadcasting. Telegrams and cablegrams indicated that Many ¢lass rooms heard it in Canada, Mexico, West India, Argentina, and the Philippine Islands,