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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 8, 1 September 1933, Page 37

— [view of the economie conditions " prevailing’in the Argentine Republic, where broadcasting stations are maintained solely by revenue derived from microphone publicity, the studios have been hard-put to-secure payments in money from their advertisers. In an endeavour to solve the problem, in many instances, the bills have been settled by payment in goods and some stations have.been compelled to accept live-stock and food products in lieu of cheques. A New York paper reports that at Rosario the broadcasting station was offered a jaguar, owned by the proprietor of a travelling circus, in settlement of an account. After some negotiation, the studio agreed to accept do-, mestic animals to the same value and the bill was receipted in due course,