Topical Notes

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 25, 30 December 1932, Page 19

Topical Notes

"THE Osaka station JOBK now gives daily Esperanto talks at 10.30 p.m, _ FOR the benefit of their nationals residing in the U.S.A., the Polish broadcasting authorities have completed arrangements for a rebroadcast of programmes from Warsaw, for transmission through the. National Broadcasting Company’s network. ACCORDING to the French technical press, the 60-kilowatt transmitter, which is being built for Bist, on the south coast, will act as a regional station, and will be linked by modern pupinised cubles with modern studios at Nice, Cannes, and Monte Carlo. WN the success of the last radio show at Olympia, the Radio Manufacturers’ Association has booked the building five years ahead. It is officially stateq that £50,000,000 of wireless apparatus is expected to pass into the hands of the public, as the result of Radi-olympia. , ‘Tun Law Society of Great Britain has informed the B.B.C. that there is no possibility of the removal of the ‘ban on barristers and other members "of the legal profession, broadcasting under their own names. It has been hoped to include eminent K.C.’s and even judges for the series of mock trials which the B.B.C. is broadcasting. R. TOULOUSE, a French authority on nervous disorders, recently gave it as his opinion that when powerful wireless broadcasts were taking ‘place it was harmful for tired people, for overworked people, and for children who had little power of resistance. It was because sensorial excitement was bad for mental equili« brium, ‘{‘HE organisers of Radiolympia cannot complain of newspaper neglect with ‘reference to the show. In the national and daily. newspapers, apart from wireless and technical journals, there were nearly 8500 column inches of editorial matter about the exhibition. Of this amount the national dalies gave 1700 inches, the evening newspapers more than 600 inches, while nearly 600 inches were given by the Sunday papers,