RADIO Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 33, 24 February 1933, Unnumbered Page

RADIO Round the World

RADIO TOULOUSE, the famous French station, has made applicu{ion to begin broadcasting wilh its new 60/70 k.w. transmitter. This station has 14 radio clubs, 184 agricultural syndicates, chambers of commerce and agriculture and other professional groups assisting it in the execution of its tasks. Radio Toulouse has not pursted its course free of all obstacle. anil at various times it has had difficulties with the Government. There have been oceasions when the Post and Yelegraph Department have cut the lines to the transmitter in order to prevent broadcasts, and vigorous complaints were Inunched when the station first relayed a religious service, In 1926 its broad: casts of opera from the theatre were only possible by installing a portable transmitter in the auditorium of the therttre, as the Government had refused permission to allow the use of telephone lines, To-day it is one of the favourite French stations. # rr} Pa

| ' PAINLY general satisfaction has been expressed in Great Britain at the withdrawal of the opera subsidy by the B.B.C. A new scheme has been entered into by the B.B.C, and the opera aue thorities whereby support of opera will continue by arranging fdr a number of trunsmissions that will be paid for, In yeturn, the Postmaster-General has trvanged the terms of the license {ees iil ‘favour of the B.B.C, The subsidy, for which Lady Snowden was largely Te. sponsible, was an annual grant of £17. 500 for five years, ‘The opinion seems fo be that cessation Was justified, many listeners contending that the Knglish, i not being: an opera-lovying peepie, were being compulsorily edneated to opera.

"Pur coveted gold medal awarded annnally for radio diction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters hus this year been issued to David Russ, of the Culombin Broadcasting System announcing staff In his early career David Russ covered the varied duties of nowsboy, agriculiural student, or phan asyluin supervisor, secretly, fad yertising writer, book reviewer, and poet, * % tt ’ is not generally known that M. Branly, the French "father of wireless" snd inventor of the coherer, is a physician, = Sfeps are now being taken ‘to organise a celebration of his jubilee in the medieal profession, and bopes are entertained that he will shortly veceive the ‘supreme decoration-tie Grand Ctoss of the Legion of Tonour, * a * Pub British Post Office has heen recently conducting © series of experiments across the sristol Channel io ascertain the feasibility of a radio link in the telephone circuit from Wales to South-West Englind. The seene of operations has been at Lavernock, where Marconi conducted some

of his earliest trials. ‘The experimen!« have been highly satisfactory, snd the yidio link is to be incorporated across other wide estuaries, thus effecting a great saving in poles, wire and upkeep. Radio links are already in use in telephone circuits’ in Iingland, between centres as far apart as 3800 miles. . Br) % "PRE only broadcasting station now in Greece is situated at Salonika. [Ty call is "Empros Etho Thersaloniki.’ ¢ . s by wu PRESIDENT HINDENBURG bas awarded to Marconi the dioethe Medal for Science and Art, which was instituted to celebrate the Goethe anniyersary last year, It is expected that the inventor will feel unusually eratified with this honour, because, alihough Goethe is chiefly known as a literary personality, he was a scientist of no mean order, One of his most remarkable theories was that the skull is a modification of a vertebra. Pal Fi %

ys the opinion of Mr, F, i. Brayne, LGS., and acknowledged Indian authority, broadcasting has a woncderful future in India. The situation is summed up in Mr. Brayne’s pregnant words thus: "Broadensting ean do more jn a Jew years in the general spread of knowledge than all other methods ef education put together can do in a lifetime, and as the value of so much knowledge depends on its rapid dissemination, and as the Indinn ‘villager has so much leeway to mike up, broadeasting is the instrument Which those who wish the welfare of village India cannot afford to hes Jeet"

ON behalf of the Aiv Ministry, & "idio station is being erected = at Manchester which will be the first fully equipped radio station in a municipal airport for the use of civilian airport services, The power and range will suffice for the needs of aireratt crossing the Irish Sea, and will permit of communication over a wide area of Ingland and Wales, * % % 4° Me question of wireless terminolory is 4 vexed one. Terms such as "listeper" and "announcer" were rapidly adopted in Wnglish-speaking coun iries, Ingenions people are still devising «alternatives. Many foreigi countries adopted the English word "speaker" for announcer, The Spanish Acadenty of Letters has officially introtuced "locutor." while Freneh opinion is inclined toward "parleur." No Janeuage has borrowed so freely from its neighbours as the French. France has tuken all her sporting terms piecemeal from England. In French sports papers you will still read that "le centreforward a fait un bon kick vers ie goal’? and that a boxer scored "un knock-out parfait."