World Radio News
T is claimed that the mention of prices, a recently introduced feature in American wireless sales talks, has not been found to be offensive to listeners generally. It now transpires that the chief opponents to price-mention were the two big broadcasting chains themselves, who were apparently under an impression that actual price-mention might have the effect of destroying goodwill. = % s FORTUNE telling and astrological programmes by radio have recently been forbidden in the U.S.A., and in granting renewal of the license to KFWI, of San Francisco, which station had featured fortune-telling programmes, the Radio Commission ruled that such transmissions, together with the advertising for sale of astrological charts, might in many caseg constitute a harmful trade upon the susceptibilities and emotions of listeners who may be in serious difficulties.
THE scheme for providing community radio for villages in India is proceeding toward a. successful: conclusion, in the Bombay Presidency. Indian gentlemen have undertaken to provide the receivers needed, and a European business man has promised to make a substantial donation to defray part of the cost. The wireless consultant to the Government has chosen villages in the centre of well-populated areas, and the design of the receivers is such that they will be automatically switched off and on, by operation from the transmitting station,
AN appliance for the detection and extinction of fires on board ship has recently been demonstrated in Great Britain. The apparatus uses a selenium cell of a pattern similar to that utilised in the reproduction of "talkie" films, When influenced by a variation of light the cell operates a relay causing an alarm to be rung and a visible signal to be flashed at a prominent part of the ship. At the same time fire extinguishing chemicals are automatically released at the point of outbreak, -~
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Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 25, 30 December 1932, Page 23
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302World Radio News Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 25, 30 December 1932, Page 23
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