International Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 22, 13 December 1929, Page 31

International Broadcast

New European Relay System N connection with the new Polish scheme for establishing a chain of high-powered stations throughout the country, it is interesting to learn that the contract obtained for this purpose by a well-known British radio manufacturing concern includes the provision not only of six new broadcast: ing. installations, but also of very elaborate equipment of repeaters and correcting apparatus for landlines. . This. apparatus will be installed to carry out important improvements in the scheme already in operation for the exchange- of broadcast programmes between many JHuropean cities.. This international exchange. of programmes, which is now a regular fenture of European broadcasts, has come into existence as the result of tlie activities of the newly-established International Commission for the Bxchange of Broadcast Programmes, Under the scheme a group of cities broadcasts simultaneously at intervuis a high-class musical programme, such as a Viennese opera or philharmonie concert, provided by the members in rotation. Thus for each. programme provided by one country it receives four programmes in return. By this means each country is able to spend more on its special programme than it would otherwise be able to do, and each country receives better broadcast entertainment as the result.