Radio in Egypt

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 38, 3 April 1931, Page 2

Radio in Egypt

Rome Station Popular

kyexer and Italy, united in the days of the Roman Wmpire under the Caesars, are again being drawn to each other culturally through the twentieth century bond of radio broadcasting. This was among the interesting observations made by the export manager of one of America’s largest radio manufacturing firms, who has just, returned from a 15,000 mile trip which carried him through Northern Africa as well as across Europe. ' The principal source of radio programmes in Egypt is the great new Italian broadcasting station in Rome, one of the most powerful in the world, with a power of 50 kilowatts, but capable of being stepped up to 100 kilowatts. Interest in radio programmes, Mr. Avery (of "Atwater Kent" Corporation) found, has increased decidedly in Egypt and in Algeria since the opening of the new Italian station. The splendid musical entertainments are particularly appreciated, The Bgyptian Government itself, he says, has become interested in radio and plans to modernise the desert by erecting three high-powered transmitting stations, King uad has taken the proposal in hand personally, and under plans already formulated three large

oases have been chosen as the sites for the stations. Supplementary . services will be had through six mobile stations located at strategic centres in Hgypt and the Lybian desert. Mr. Avery’s African travels took him into French Morocco and Spanish Morocco. Here the very old and the ultramodern in communications meet, for it is not unusual to deliver radio receiving sets by camel caravan, one of the means of transportation between the seaports and vast stretches of the hinterland. The chief market for receiving sets is found among the handfuls of foreigners scattered over North Africa. The native population, pastoral or nomadic, has little interest in radio. From Spanish North Africa he travelled to Rumania, arriving in Bucharast in time to broadcast at _ the opening of the Bucharest radio ‘ ghow.