Broadcasting Control

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 45, 20 May 1932, Page 4

Broadcasting Control

F the seventy countries of the world which now have broadcasting facilities, twenty-nine allow broadcasting to be conducted by private enterprise. as in the United States, twenty make proadeasting a State monopoly, and two have combined private and publie systems. This is revealed in some recent statistics, which show there are now 1423 hbroadeasting stations in the world. The compilation does not reveal the character of the other twenty countries’ rudio systems, because each country has only one statiou. For the most pa rf the stations of the smaller countries ure State owved and operated.