Radio Nationalisation

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 25, 2 January 1931, Page 6

Radio Nationalisation

Demand. by French Listeners

HE French Railways Radio Clubthe largest club of its kind in France -now possess 10,000 members, many of whom were present at the annual festival recently celebrated in Paris. A striking appeal for speedy State action in placing French broac:casting affairs on a satisfactory footing was made by the President in the course of his address. He declared that French listeners were demanding ‘fa body representing not merely commercial concerns, but the general interests of the nation." Post office authorities support this view, but the majority of commercial interests in France oppose this policy of radio nationalisation on the grounds that it would obstruct subsequent radio progress.