World Radio News

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 13, 7 October 1932, Page 8

World Radio News

i (QNE of the features of the rabent radio show in London, the "(Radiolympia," was a miniature of Broadcasting House. The model was on 2 scale of #-inch to the foot and was approximately five feet long and three feet wide. The exterior of the front and west side was shown, and the back showed a cross-section through the. centre of the interior. a, CS & 5 DURING the year 1931 the Nationai Broadcasting Co. of U.S.A. gave time worth £400,000 for the broad-~ casting of speeches by Federal, State and city government officials, free of cost to the departments, and during the same period the Columbia Broad~ easting Co. gave time worth £300,000 for similar speeches. m * 2 (GERMAN schools taking part in the special broadcasts for schoois need pay only eighty pfennigs a month for their receiving license instead of the usual two marks. ba) 2 EJ A RECENT outery in France against ~~ the too frequent use of English and American records in broadcasting has resulted in a much increased use of French recordings. The marked inferiority of the latter has excited much adverse criticism in radio circles and the Press, es = bn] qt has been reported that the Australian P. and T. Department, which operates the transmitters of the ‘jational network, has been able to make a net profit of about £70,000 in twelve months, and a demand has been made by listeners that this money be expended upon broadcast improvement. a A RADIO propaganda week in Italy recently proved highly successful. Specially-fitted trucks stationed in the public squares and gardens of every town, from which free concerts were given, attracted immense crowds and created considerable interest in radio. HILE listeners all over France were waiting in respeciful homage for M. Herriot’s speech at the obsequies of the late M. Aristide Briand, the first words to come through the treacherous microphone were the Wrench for: "Hand me my spectacles."