Supremacy!

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 19 April 1935, Page 7

Supremacy!

handled by the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft as "roof company ; it also supervises broadcasting finance in its entirety and represents the broadcasters in all common causes. The task of the regional Stations is to create the programmes ; each of them is assisted by a political supervisory committee and a cultural council. Problems connected with programmes-and presenting themselves to all companies alike-are handled either by the programme committees or by the Reichs-Rund-funk-Gesellschaft, according to their nature. School broadcasting is administered by a central office in cooperation with the regional stations. The ultimate responsibility for broadcasting as a whole is laid upon the Broadcasting Commissioner attached to the Post-master-General’s Department in Berlin. Germany’s broadcasting problems are much the same as New Zealand’s. They include the completion of the network of high-powered stations, the -elimination of interferences with reception, the possibilities of synchronisation and of ultra-short-waves, and_tele- | vision. Germany has also gone into the question of making recordings of outstanding. broadcasts, but in this field she has not progressed as far as Great Britain which is now distributing recordings of big broadcasts to all parts of the world. oe . Considerable care has gone into school broadcast- ling, in which the German authorities have co-operated "very closely with the educational experts. Every sec"ond school in Germany to-day is in a position to complement and vivify the usual instruction with special broadcasts. In order that the fullest use may be made of educational talks, listening groups have been formed in many places, in which communal listening is followed by discussion, under adequate direction, of what has just been heard. An innovation of recent days is the move by the Government to avail itself of broadcasting for pronouncements of especial significance. That Hitler and his associates have made considerable use of radio recently is a well-known fact. Germany has experimented widely with relays by means of telephone,

and irreproachable programmes-from the technical point of view-have been broadcast .from different parts of the country. For instance, "Tristan," which was performed recently at Bayreuth, was rebroadcast by 2000 stations all over Europe. The shortwave broadcasts heard in New Zealand come from Broadcasting House in Berlin (reproduced on this page), with occasional link-ups to Hamburg, Leipzig, frankfurt and other places for the broadcasting of symphony concerts and plays.