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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Page 34

"THE bugle call blown from the top of St. Mary’s tower at Oracow, Poland, is a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, when the city was besieged by an enemy. The sentry was killed before he could sound an alarm, and to-day the unfinished call is given hourly as a time signal and broadcast by the local station. Ld ol * N Bavaria if telephone subscribers are only interested in Munich programmes, they may receive them through a special loudspeaker hired out by the postal authorities.. The rental is approximately four shillings monthly. * * [1SCORD apparently characterises the B.B.C. Musical Advisory Committee. Two members of this important branch of the B.B.C. recently tendered their resignations over disputes with respect to the type of music to be broadeast. The resignations were, however, declined, in the hope that better counsels may prevail, : ADIO LUXEMBOURG broadcasts special concerts for British, French, German, Belgian, Dutch and Italian listeners. It is the most cosmopolitan of all European stations, and its three announcers give out the items nightly in several different languages. * om QNE of the difficulties which troubled the Lucerne Broadcasting Conference was that of Russian wave-lengths, The Russians have never before recognised. any restrictions; many of their transmitters range between 600 and 1000 metres. They agreed to certain , restrictions, but refused absolutely to abandon some of their wave-lengths outside the ordinary broadcasting band. Another difficulty was the cost. of al terations to existing stations. It was pointed out that if the. high-power. station at Luxembourg were required to work on medium waves it would hav? to be almost completely scrapped and re-built. Also, with new wave-lengths. every German station would have toe buy new crystals, at a cost of about £50 each, re .