World Radio News

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 25, 2 January 1931, Page 28

World Radio News

See UT of 116 applicants for the post of announcer at a Spanish broadcasting station, six were chosen to undergo the acid test at the microphone. Hach candidate was given an evening to himself, and listeners were asked to express.their preference by vote, og % s RYERAL Wuropean towns , known to have instituted law: bidding the use of loudspeaker; about 10 p.m., but the town ot, en-Provence (France) has go ther, The police superintendent there has issued an edict that all loudspeakers are to "shut up" at sunset! ® ® " THE traditional heroism of the wireless operator’s profession was splendidly maintained by Mr. Arthur Disley, operator on the R101, whose gallantry has been recognised by the award of the Medal of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Hmpire for Meritorious Service. Mr. Disley, after escaping from the airship wreck with serious burns, refused treatment before he had telephoned the first details of the disaster from Beauvais to the Air Ministry. e * * AUSTRIA, having experimentad ‘with a system of license feds graduated according to the cost of the receiving set, has now decided to adopt a uniform seale, viz, two shillings per head per month, & ae Py MINTATURD beam wireless system for communication between Sicily and the surrounding islands has been authorised by the Italian Government. * = s : "THAT America is fully aware of the value of police radio is shown by the decision of the U.S. Federal Radio Commission to permit twenty-four cities and two States to operate police wireless stations, Twenty other cities have been granted permission to build such stations, ' Bd a "THE L.oadcasting station at Berne, Switzerland, is intending to specialise in radio drama. A schocl@ipot radio elocution is to be formed 6 he training of the fifteen or twenty jctors who will compose the station’s dramatic company. s = cad A PICTURD player has been made "~~ in America, It is a gramophone furnished with a projector which, when the machine plays, shows pictures in harmony with the music. A film of 18 pictures, each replaced at every ten seconds, accompanies each record. Synchronisation of sound with the pictures is automatic while the record revolves. 7. % s ‘. RAPr10 Agen, the station which was almost completely destroyed in the Great French floods some months ago, will again make itself heard in the near future. A State subsidy of £2400 has been allotted for its reconstruction. . . e %