Radio Round The World

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 15, 18 October 1935, Page 13

Radio Round The World

A VACANCY on the announcing statt of Radio Normandie attracted 300 applicants early in July. IN a speed-limit case at Leeds (Hngland), the chairman of the bench was reported as saying that it. was ridiculous to have a radio recéiver in a car, and advising the owner to get rid of it. : : A FRENCH evening paper is following the "Nour de France’. cycling race With. a radio reporting car.. The ear has a studio in:front, a recording room behind, and a railed platform on the roof for thé use’ of commentators. BARBARA SPRAGUOM, . of ...KGIR, . Butte, Montana, ¢laims'a pla¢e-in the galléry of. woman radio-en#ineers ; She got & second-class telegraph. operaey eee ay ey eee we PO ee Pee ee ee rr tt Fae

tor's license from Washington Radio _. College in 1980, was manager and chief engineer of the Illinois station, went to . Kentucky, aid two years ago went to -KGIR. She works at the controls, announces the women’s sessions, and runs 2 theatre session. She is also a good | cook, HEH. Atlantic Cliy Press Club awardeda bronzé plaqte to.the National Broadcasting Company of New York for the first broadcast .of."a balloonist, twelve miles above the earth, telling his. own story: of: his preparations to abandon. ship as the balloon was rip.ping apart; and falling" (Stratosphere flight, 1984)... Thig is -claiméd..to be _ the firsttime the-press -has. kindly teeognised : & néws broadeasts:. — « Pe er

THE chairman of the Danish Eléctrical Manufacturers’ Association said that the association would join with radio and television interests to oppose radio relay (wired wireless) services, which, he said, were "a. source of inconvenience to the authorities." SCANDINAVIAN radio organisations are all preparing to jump on "Radiojanst," alleging that this company paid for broadcasting rights to a Swedish-Danish tootball match, It seems that all: the companies had au agreement: by. which none was to pay for rights to sporting descriptions. : THe Columbia Broadcasters did a * special broadcast of the closing of the fourth U.S.A. Gongress. Newepapermen who. had. reported the séssions gave- their impressions :ftom the press galleries; even microphones were used in the Honsé. Chamber to breadcast a review of the session’s work by the Speaker, and & vice-president, upeaking from the office of the Sewetary of the Senate, reviewed the ‘Senate’s activities. 9° "a ON Friday, September 6, "Radio Nu&tions," the League of Nations official transmitter at Pragins, began ‘2 European and overseas news service intended ‘for the information of governs ments and of the press; the service is once a week, not exceeding 400 words of Morse. The overseis broadcasts are betweeti midnight and 1 a.m. (Saturday), B.S.T. transmitted in Wnglish on 29.27 metres, and in Spanish on 88.48 ‘metres.