World Radio News

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 29, 27 January 1933, Unnumbered Page

World Radio News

HE new Dublin station at Moydrum, near Athlone, employs a T aerial suspended between two masts about 300 feet high, * * & "THE power of the new broadcast transmitter under construction for Abu Zabal (Egypt) is to be 10 kilowatts, and it is anticipated regular operation will commence in March, 1983. A special land line connects the station with Cairo. : % F * , (THE Dutch long-wave statién at Scheveningen Haven does not transmit musical items or any materjal of a purely entertaining nature, but confines its broadcasts to commercial information, S:ock Exchange prices and the like. d . 38 %. . a WHat is considered the most complete self-contained. a,c. and d.e. radio receiver has recently been introduced on the American market. It first made its appearance in the jewellery trade, but is now in regular channels and department stores. It is 100 per cent. portable, good for distance, and weighs only 541b. . * * * ; QF all the European stations broadcasting lessons in foreign languages Ljubljana (Jugoslavia) holds the. record for the greatest number .- of courses. Tuition is given weekly in Es-: peranto, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Italian, German, French, and English, Announcements are usually multilingual. % * ONE of the favourite "gags’" of current comedians is to say unkind things of crooners and saxophone players. But there is one sax. player who owes his life to his genius in playing the instrument, He is a convict who wus sentenced to death at the ‘State prison in California. Anson Weeks, the American maestro, knew him when he was in California and greatly admired the murderer’s saxophone playing. Because Weeks was known for his good work in prison charity, he was able to have the death sentence conmuted, and now the convict is teaching other prisoners to play the saxophone, .