RADIO Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 21, 2 December 1932, Unnumbered Page

RADIO Round the World

Apour édneational ‘sessions from Danish broadcasting stations cover a- very wide field. Lessons are given in Danish, English, Freiich and Germin, in connection. with which the Broadcasting Council. has arranged, for the pubtication of cheap tert: books. * * * Wire the down. of: the local station at Dundee when the Scottish Regional Station was opened at Falkirk, three hundred: blind listenets in Dundee district who possessed only crystal sets haye been deprived of their only wireless programme, Jt is assumed that -with the development of the regional scheme many other similar. enses will be found, ‘and the nuthorities controlling the Fund. for Wireless for the. Blind have been called upon to make a systematic suryey in order that valve receivers may be given to replace the now ‘inefficient erystal recelyers, e * * . Rav10 regulations in Canada provide for.a license to be -shown perore a dealer is permitted to sell recéiving set to a customer, A fur- . ther regulation ‘necessifates the nranufacturer affixing a notice to every receiver warning all concerned of the penalty liable to anyone operating the | set’ without the necessary license. . Pirates" may be fined £10 or sentenced to a term of imprisonment up to three months, % * a "THE maintenance of the radio instal- ~ Jation giyen by the Southend (England) Radio Society to the local publie hospital, is to be undertaken by the society. Although haying a membership totalling one hundred oniy, this club has already supplied and’ maintained without cost to the authorities a radio. ‘installation including a complete set of ‘pillow phones and londspeakers. , * , _

AN emergency system of radio ‘com"Ss munication similar to the activities of the amateur transmitter in New Zealand has been inaugurated in Italy at the refuge stations in the Italian Alps. At these positions are maintained small transmitters by means of which ealls for help may be broadcast: Recent tests of the apparatus have shown how valuable the installations .mey proye. ¥s te ReeRer i is expressed in many circles at 2 recent regulation in Germany which requires all Jeading officials in. the broadcasting est: thlishments to be of German birth. Wliiherto many of ; the leading Jights in the literary ana musical professions. connected with radio have been Ilungarians, Austrians, Czechs, Poles and others whose eduention and domicile in Germany for niany years has parlicularly fitted them. for .the international aspect that wireless has. Many of those dismissed have been resident so long’ that their origin had been practically forgotten. a * # TIE day when British listeners may be able to hear Italian opera relayed. direct from its native land has been brought nearer by the erection qf 4" Suitable line between Milan and Graz. It-is not anticipated that relays from further south than Milan will be possible in the near future, but ‘all land-: line connections’ in the proposed construction: programme in Italy has: the possibility. of musical frequencies: transmission included in the estimates.

TT ELE path of Pmpire broadcasting is be-fogged. by.’ many difficulties. Many Dominion newspapers are alarmed that news bulletins may damage thelr interests.and the B.B.GC. has been required to agree to limit news tv nild proportions, The Musicians’ Union has also mad@ difficulties by objecting to recordings for Wmpire use, and they demand that.such be paid for at normal recording rates. ee * * N Hungary one of the greatest fes-. tivals of the. year, which. ‘attracts visitors from.every part of ,the globe, is in connection with the wine harvest. This year the broadeasting authorities sent a microphone and equipment to Tokai, the centre of the grape district, and all Hungary was permitted to henr the musie and song of this public merry-making.

SOME of the German stations when closing down for the night remind listeners that it is good policy to earth their aerials before they retire. Vienna advises everyone when. signing oft to not to forget to turn off the gas. It ix suggested that some stations might give listeners a reminder to pnt the ‘eat out of doors, ¥ cS * "SUNDAY newspaper in England . ‘has drawn attention to the dumping of cheap American. receivers on the ‘English market. It is pointed out that this threatens the stybility of & trade which has over £30,000,000. of British capital invested in it, and with anxiliary trades employs oyer 1,000,006 British workpeople. . a * bd HE determination of the B.B.C, to combine entertainment. with instruction in their general programme is shown in. their, forecast of talks. Musie lovers ‘will hear explanatory remarks given by the, musical director immediately before each important concert, ranging from fiye minutes for a studio concert to a quarter of an hour for a symphony concert. It is thus hoped that listeners will be able to appreciate better the works it is intended to present,

= ty "THE. performances at + the Metropolitan Opera Howse in.’ New York City are to be brogdeast again this winter, As was done — Inst season, when permission was first given, a portion of one reguigr performance . Will be available to wireless listener's each week. The -enthusiastic recep tion of these excerpts, resulting in increased attendance, has fully justified the relays from this famous opera house, toes ’ ~* % = _NEW mural panoel,- bearing the Royal Arms, is being earyed hetween the right-hand doutle doors at the main entrance ..to Broadcasting House, London. ' It -bears the inseription: "Their Majesties, ihe King and Queen, honoured this building with their presence, July 7, 1932." .

(FERMANY minkes- every: effort — to popularise broadcasting, and the aim is to make every member of the community, 2 veguldit listener. One method employed to circularise the benefits of radio, is a fully. equipped radio yan. with a loudspeaker, which travels in backwaters of the country districts and poorer districts of the cities, _ a * # i" [TN Germany the wireless news service is supplied by an independent company which rewrites and edits the news of the day in a manner suitable for the listener. In order that it. may be delivered in. the. most acceptable manner, most. of the news is first spoken into a dictaphore and spoken back to the editor, who is thus able to judge how ‘it will be received over the. air. A * £#¢ * QNE of the most interesting features ~ . of the séason’s programmes of the B.B.C, will be fictitions trials in which listeners will hear speeches for the prosecution anid défence and the judge’s summing up. The jury will be the listerding public.

HE U.S8:A. police have developed a ‘system of transmitting by radio finger prints of syspected international gem thieves, In this way New York ‘is in constant. contact with Iondon, and severat thieves who haye been wanted ‘by the police in Europe have been detained in Neéw~ York. until the necessary documents and detectives arriyed from Wurope, * * * HE development of ‘broadcasting schools in Spain is. proceeding remarkably, and the Minister of Instriaction has seeured an allocation for. the purchase of receiving sets for scholastic institutions. At present, single taiks "are the rule, but arrangements are being completed for courses of lectures on spheres which cannot be covered in individyal schools. French and English instruction is given thrice weekly, and the-results of these lessons haye already had a remarkable bearing on | the attitude of scholars toward foreign countries. * * CIIANGE of wireless policy has evidently been’ ‘thonght best ce Russia, for aggressive attacks on ot hr countries has entirely ceased. The reasons assumed. for this’ change are yery interesting. Most Soviet transmitters haye been under the jurisdiction of the JWominstern officials, but recently these haye been replaced by nominees of the present Government in the ascendant. It is freely asserted that the Russian Government is contemplating approaching the U.S.A. with a view ~ to establishing trade agreements; and nothing which could be taken exception to by a foreigner, must therefore be broadcast. While transmissions in other languages continue, they centain nothing of x political nature, and are purely cultural and infarmative. ("PE Australian Mobile Broadeasting ‘Station, 8YB, which came into heing just. over twelve months ago, has had remarkable success.. Originally the station, transmitter and studio, was housed. in two motor vehicles of the carayan type. his was the first portable commercial broadeaster in Australia, and the idea was quickly duplicated in America. 3YB has trayel- . led extensively through the State of Victoria, giving publicity to many implements of rural requirements and by impromptu studio concerts in country districts, done much toward making isolation more pleasant. ‘To-day 3YB is housed in the railway carriage specially built for the present King and Queen, and the mobile station attracts great attention’ wherever it ‘travels, , , * * he FPOLLOWING upon a recent regula tion permitting the National Broadcasting Company to mention the price of goods in @ sponsored © prugramme, the Columbia, chain has taken advantage of the enactment, and now: — both systems give prices of the wares that are spoken about in their sales talks, This new departure is, one attempt to defeat the general business depression, but the percentage of time allowed for commercial advertising is ‘to be strictly limited in view of the elaims of the Press, which has suf-_ fered greatly from the slump as: well * . *" "% BOURNEMOUTH has an outstanding ‘place in radio license records, Ont of its 22,459 homes, 22,361 are licensed for wireless receiving. ~~

Thirty Minute of Old-time Dance Musie by the 1YA Chamber Orchestra: will be broadcast from 1YA 0n Saturday,, Decemher 10.