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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 28, 18 January 1935, Page 43

‘THs Italiana station at Bari provides ' the only radio programme in Greek for the benefit of the Greeks, who have no service. The Italians are also considering programmes in Turkish and Arabic. N European countries. including Germany, and in some British Dominions the blind are exempt from listening fees. In Great Britain many of the sightless listeners are granted free receiving sets and are not asked to pay license fees. The Nationa] Institute for the Blind issues the weekly B.B.C, programmes printed in Braille. OUR Danish gramophone companies brought a case against the Danish broadcasting stations for an injunction prohibiting further record broadeasts until the broadcasters paid what the gramophone companies. asked. The prohibition was made as from April 11; no further records to be played, but 2000 records bought before that date might be played. Now the LHastern Divisional Court holds up the section of the Act which says, "The person who transfers a work to mechanical devices shall have the same rights as an.author," which means that the stations will have to pay a tax on each record they broadcast, but not on the 2000 they bought before April 11.