Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 14, 11 October 1935, Page 15

Radio Round the World

pus British Minister for Transport, Mr. Hore-Belisha, would give no definite assurance to -manufacturers that his department would not control or limit -car-radio, N the Assembly Hall of the League . of Nations five rooms are being constructed for radio reporters, €ach overlooking the hall, so that broadcasts may be made while the Assembly is. sitting. URING ‘the British schools’ . vacations boys sit on the steps of All Souls’ Church, near the B.B.C., and as well-known radio artists come from the B.B.C. the boys accost them with autograph books, HE "parasite chasers" of the French Post Office investigated 33893 complaints of electrical interference, and found 18,577 offenders during July, or about four interferences for every complaint. They call those responsible for static "Perturbators." AT Blackpool, England, there are four radio relay exchange firms (they receive programmes and relay them over telephone lines to subscribers) ; ; and between them they are using so many overhead wires that the Blackpool Corporation has suggested a merger or the withdrawal of their operating rights. HE British Performing Rights Society reports that last year it examined 401.815 musical" programmes, many of. which were: B.B.C. programmes, and from the B.B.C. alone extracted £96,000, which was divided nmong the copyright owners, Although the society’s income.from broascasting is expanding, it says "the increase is not nearly sufficient to compensate for the ‘disatsrous effects w hich broadeasting has hud on the musical profession generally."