Radio News

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 2, 22 July 1932, Page 21

Radio News

J OUDSPEAKERS have been installed in Sweden’s central prison at Malmo, so that prisoners may listen to Stockholm programmes during certain hours. The broadcasts are limited to concerts and educational talks-no news bulletins being permitted. . = + ALTHOUGH it was anticipated that after two successive tests of the new high-powered Scottish regional transmitter, the B.B.C. would receive a great number of reports, the response was very nreagre. This confirms the lukewarm appreciation that the Scot ‘appears to have for broadcasting. s * * ARISIAN amateurs have organised . a boycott against lift-owners who fail to fit anti-interference devices to their lifts. & ® * WING to its broadcasts being swamped by the Moscow (Stalin) station, HAJ7, Madrid, has been forced to alter its frequency. oe * * HB Swiss station at Basle has promised its listeners a novel broadcast, Arrangements have been made with a parachutist to broadcast his impressions on his "jump" from an aeroplane from a height of 18.000 feet. A portable shortwave’ transmitter, with microphone, will be strapped to the parachutist, and his narrative will be rebroadcast. A similar experiment in, the U.S.A. two years ago was a eemplete failure. a 2 9 HE Prague broadcasting station now opens its early-morning programme with a most realistic cockerowing, from a record obtained only after several scores of roosters had been tested as to their capabilities. % = xt FOLLOWING upon an unauthorised broadeast by twenty-one stations of excerpts from Lehar’s' operetta, "Paganini," the National Broadcasting Co. of America has been served with a writ for 105,000 dollars damage. The result of this exceptional lawsuit is awaited with interest. Bg xe * FAPRE are a few facts about London’s new broadcasting house. The length of the corridors is one mile: there are 800 doors. 7500 panes of glass. 180 rooms, and 1250 stairs. Nevertheless the new building is cramned, and other neighbonring properties have had to be acquired for the purpose of enlarging the building. Om * Ps A NEW device enables every word snoken at a conference to be recorded. A separate micronhone ° is placed in front of each member. The chairman. when calling upon anyone to speak, switches on his microphone, which has a signal lamp attached. The speeches are recorded on a steel tape two miles long, and this can be played pack, serving as a permanent record of, the proceedings. ow 8 .