American Dominance Over Broadcast Wave lengths

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 37, 27 March 1931, Page 6

American Dominance Over Broadcast Wave lengths

Mexico and Canada Protest Top growing opposition of Canada and Mexico to the "squatter sovereignty" exercised over the major portion of the broadcast band by the United States is rapidly coming to a head. America’s dominance is undoubtedly due to an early realisation of the potentialities of radio. Ps On the other hand, the rights of otfier nations to a share of the broadcasting facilities cannot be dismissed as mere academic theory. In fact, Mexico is already building stations on the channels now occupied by stations in the United States and Canada, with much resultant interference to the latter. Canada has been more passive in its demands. ’ Some see the widening of the broadcasting band to include more channels as a solution; others think technical advances, such as synchronisation of chains of stations on identical wavelengths or narrowing the paths of broadcast transmission, may solve the problems before the legislators, and diplomats need to be called upon.