Wireless News

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 24, 27 December 1929, Page 4

Wireless News

t eneninmeenal Y one of those delightful hazards which achieve more than the most carefully-thought-out: plans, the song of a Canadian robin was recently broadeast to the infinite pleasure of many bed-ridden radio enthusiasts and thousands of others. During preparations for a broadcast by CNRM (Canadian National Railways, Montreal), the mierophone was place near the open window. On the ledge a Canadian robin perched and commenced to chirp, finally bursting into full song. Holding their breath and moving on tiptoe the personnel of the studio performed’ , #he necessary operations for sending the impromptu concert into the ether. T red-breastéd songstér coneluded its recital with a satisfied chirp, and did not even return for its recompense, which, in the form of a feast of crumbs, lny untouched on the window-ledge for days. N innovation in electioneering was seen last May during the British General Election, when speeches made by the leaders of the political parties were retransmitted by landline and heard simultaneously in a number of different towns. Such a scheme had, however, never been adopted by a commercial firm until ‘recently, when speeches made ‘at a trade luncheon given in London by a well-known radio manufacturing firm were relayed bj*., wire to six large provincjal cities. Not only were those actually attending the’ luncheon enabled to hear the speeches made, but by means of microphones suspended in front of the speakers and connected to long-distance telephone lines the proceedings were followed with the utmost ease by similar trade gatherings in provincial centres over 800 miles from the capita] city.