Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 14, 13 October 1933, Page 25

Radio Round the World

ANISH programmes are controlled by a supervisory board of 15 members which accepts suggestions from civie organisations formed for the purpose of seeking improvement in radio transmissions. The plan seems to have succeeded for Denmark ranks first in the number of receiving sets in proportion to population,

HE only longwave channel given to France is that of 1,796 metres, which will be .sed by Radio Paris, now included in the State broadcasting net. French listeners are not satisfied with this allocation, inasmuch as their high power broadcasts will only be separated from those of the Moscow 500 kilowatt station by 8 kilocycles. x * % HE remarkable discovery has been made by Dr. Frank N, Freeman, Professor of Educational Psychology to the University of Chicago, that the general intelligence of the radio audience is well above that of the average adult. Answers to three questionnaires were submitted by more than 2,500 listeners, and Dr. Freeman found that the average score of listeners responding to the test was thirty-two, as compared with the average adult intelligence designated by the numeral twenty-four. Abviously, contact with the ether stimulates the mental faculties, and "the man on the air" is mentally superior to "the man in the street,"