Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 45, 22 May 1931, Page 12

Radio Round the World

A MUSICAL comedy, written expressly for television,‘ was broadcast recently from Chicago by the Western Television Company. It is reported that figures 2ft. high were repro- . duced on the laboratory screen, and , that the programme was picked up by} approximately one thousand television receivers in the Middle West. * * * ROBABLY no country has derived greater benefit from broadcasting ‘an the Argentine, for, with an area « over a million square miles and a "scattered population of only ten millions, Wireless is the only quick and reliable means of communication in times of emergency. % * * HE chief engineer of WHAM broadcasting station, Rochester, United States, has applied to the Federal Radio Commission for a test permit for the "useless frequencies" between 50,000 and 100,000 k.c. (6 to 3 metres). His object is to develop lightweight transmitting and receiving equipment for aircraft. * * x (SON STANTINOPLE’S famous Mosque of St. Sophie, one of the most historic monuments in the world, is to be turned into a Mahommeda. transmitting station. The four minarets will serve for aerial masts, and the nave Will be transformed into a studio. 7 * * DETERMINED effort to combat. clandestine listening is being made by the Polish authorities. It is said that in a period of two months, 10,000 unlicensed sets were located, and the owners punished. The cost :* a receiying license in Poland approximates 7/a month. a * wv ITE French Postmaster-General re-, cently stated that the shortwave station at’ Vincennes, which 9s. been built for colonial broadcasting, will be ready to come into operation when the International Colonial Exhibition opens there in May.