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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 38, 29 March 1935, Page 13

The Mexican State railways are thinking of putting up a high-power station which may be heard all over the United States. so that the Americans will have no excuse for not knowing how beautiful Mexico is, and how delightful it is to travel through Mexico in trains of the Mexican State Rail- , Ways. An American, Mr. Herman Hettinger, wrote another book on ‘‘A Decade of Radio Advertising,’’ who says that "fin the United States the freater freedom of debate is allowed over the air" ; "The Listener’? counters this with a quotation from results of a reader’s poll taken by the American ‘‘Literary Digest,’’ which appeared as "major dislikes,’’ "crooners, sob-songs, trashy, coy, cute, patronising, wise-cracking announcers. rapid-fire talkers, ‘thrillfvs’ bad for children, and children try-

ing to sing sex-songs’’-‘‘which,’’ says "The Listener,’ ‘we are happily almost entirely spared over here." But. ure we in Australia? And this was not all. Bacarena, Lisbon, claims its recent 103 hours’ continuous broadcasting as a record. Over 1000 records were played and various corcerts, banquets, and conferences relayed, [t is revealed that the committees of the two great American parties, Democrats and Republicans, owe the two hig broadcasting chains, N.B.C. and C.B:S., about £50,000 for time on the air purchased during the last Presidential campaign; the Democrat’s owe about £30,000 and the Republicans owe about £20,000. The broadcasters vaguely hope to get the money before the next Presidential election.

The B.B.C. hag been using the famous Bow Bells for an interval signal; now they are trying to find something else. One section objects to their more or less gay tone in the middle of a solemn programme, the other says they have sacred associations, and should not be used behind vaudeville . programmes, éte. It is thought the B.B.C. will go hack to the clock-tick signal At the Olympia exhibition in Bagland one, of the attractions was a film showing how the authorities dealt with manmade static. Virst there was a scene of John Citizen lodging a complaint; then a scene of the anti-static detectives arriving in their yan, and doing things with headphones; and finally the scene where they tracked the intereference down to the village grocer’s refrigerating plant,