Broadcasting News

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 30, 7 February 1930, Page 10

Broadcasting News

Frew broadcast artists deserve to be suffocated in the studio. Yet this fate nearly overtook a well-known performer at the Savoy Hill broadcasting studio in London recently when he strayed too near a ventilating tube which had been cleaned with paraffin. . He is only just recovering from, an il® ness which has lasted for weeks. The problem of studio ventilation will be one of the first considerations of the designers of Broadcasting House, Portland Place. Entirely new methods are to be tried, as it is realised that the present system at Savoy Hill is hopelessly inadequate. HERE appears to be no sign of a decrease in the amount of radio advertising in America. The American Department of Commerce announces that during the months January to July (inclusive) this year advertisers "hought time" on the Columbia and National Broadcasting Companies’ ste-.-tions to the tune of £1,994,800, an increase of £968,200 over that spent during the same period of 1928. What other tune was involved is not reported. However, the method seems to suit the U.S.A. advertisers and listeners.