Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 5, 11 August 1933, Page 42

Radio Round the World

(THE Atlantic Seaboard Broadcasting _ Company, under the direction of Mr Israel Leopold, popularly known as Hdwynn, is about to open a six-station network between New York and Washington. It is proposed to add 37 stations south of Washington, and 40 between Chicago and Seattle. Interest is centred in the declaration that advertising will be confined to not more than thirty words at the beginning and end of each programme. The announcements will refer listeners to newspaper advertising, and this is regarded as the first move towards loosening the strangle-hold of the sponsored programme. s s THE Performing Right Society, which recently won a case to establish that music copyrighted by its members may not without a license be broadcast by means of a radio receiver or gramophone, announces that it has livensed the B.B.C. for a period of four years. The terms of payment are calculated in accordance with the number of extant listeners’ licenses, but, adds the P.R.S., "the payment is no longer limited to 5 per cent. of the B.B.C.’s share of the revenue." m = PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT officially will open the new radio chain of the Amalgamated Broadcasting Sys- tem this month, announces President Id, Wynn, head of the third national network. Officials of WOL, the national capital outlet of Amalgamated, sent word that the president is displaying personal interest in the enterprise, which has been hailed by those familiar with its policies as initiating "the new deal" on the air. s ™ * AN invention for eliminating interference with aircraft radio by an aeroplane’s own. engine. has been made

by ©. F. Jenkins of Washington. AS a rule an aeroplane’s aerial is suspended under it as vertically as possible, or fastened along the leading edge of the wings. Mr. Jenkins has discovered that a radiation-free zone exists aft ot the plane, and so he holds the antenna axially in this zone by letting it fly aft from the tail, a celluloid ball being attached to its end, so as to keep it horizontally taunt. % R Ca THe powerful broadcaster which the French Posts and Telegraphs propose to install at La Brague between Nice and Cannes on the French Riviera will be known as "Nice-Monaco-Corse," as its transmissions are also destined to Monte Carlo and to the island of Corsica. In addition to studios at Nice, Cannes, Juan-les-Pins and Mentone, the station will also be connected to Paris in order to permit a relay of the "Heole Superieure" or of any others in the French State network.