News Items

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 27, 17 January 1930, Page 31

News Items

HH ‘American Academy of Arts. is reported té be drawing up rules for a competition for wireless announcers, and a medal will be given to the best exponent of the language, The chairman of the committee stated that the idea was not merely to improve the diction of the announcers, but to ‘nid in raising the standard of spoken. Knglish throughout the United States, ‘Members. of the judging committee will decide on articulation, quality of tané, accent atid general cultural otiect,. ‘ URING last year there was an increase of over 1,000,000 in the nuriber of wireless licenses in Great Britain, bringing the total at the end of the year fo over 2,898,000, It is estimated that each license means five or six listeners, so the Broadcasting Corportition has a potential audience of 15,000,= 00D people. There... ‘e also 16,000 free licenses issued to the blind. It is beHeved that Britain has the largest -Yadio population in the world in proportion to houses, Wireless has led to the development of a new and considerable ‘industry, and already the home market and British-made wireless equipment: exported exceeds £1,000,000 a year,