Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Page 30

Radio Round the World

HIGH-POWERED television station of German make is to be erected in Rome to work. in conjunction with the existing broadcasting station. Every effort is to be made to have the installation completed before the Christmas festivities. N order to encourage the use of receivers the Zagreb station has of- | fered to present a crystal set to every applicant for a listening license. The measure has been adopted owing to statements made to the effect that the trade depression has prevented many worthy families from hearing even local programmes, ; -@ * » ORD listeners in Holland subscribe to broadcast relay systems than to direct wireless broadeasting. According to latest statistics Holland has 280,610 wireless listeners, and no fewer than 291,628 subscribers to the distribution by telephone system. = * s HE elimination of "phantom" stations, i.e., those which have more than one set of call-letters for the same transmitter, has led to the apparent reduction of Canadian broadcasting stations. The official list. recognises fifty-six transmitters, =» * s LTHOUGH the Belgium police have threatened dire punishment upon all unlawful users of radio, it is estimated from sales that there are at least 70,000 pirates in that little country. The number of licenses issued does not exceed 80,000. & mR a FTHR the fall of the Hapsburgs the national anthem of Austria was replaced. by. a revolutionary: song, but the broadcasting studios have now decided to adopt the original Haydn melody that has been used on special occasions as their closing anthem. + s a COMPLAINTS are being made in the ‘Irish Free State that the programme advisory committee’s recommendations are not being acted upon. The committee consists of ten members representative of educational and general interests. 2 ¥ tL ‘TIMELY and novel feature of broadcasting in the U.S.A. is a weekly interview before the microphone on Sunday nights between President Roosevelt’s secretary, Colonel Howe, and a well-known newspaper correspondent. The interviews are based on the work of Congress during the previous week. and listeners are asked to co-operate by writing to the correspondent upon any points they would like to have elucidated.