Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 5, 14 August 1936, Page 16

Radio Round the World

FoR some time past many of the hotels in America have provided loudspeakers in the bedrooms for their guests, who can at will make a selection from a number of alternative programmes. A visitor was surprised to hear the voice of one of the B.B.C. Empire announcers emanating from the loud-speaker by his

bedside. Upon making inquiries, he learnt that this particular hotel possessed shortwave receiving apparatus, and an aerial system of the most modern design, so that home-sick listeners from Burope can be lulled to sleep by. programmes from London, Berlin, Paris or Rome, according to their choice. HERR FRITZ BUSCH, the German conductor, who has conducted the

Danish broadcasting orchestra for about three. months, recently received a cable from Toscanini saying he intended to propose Busch as his successor as conductor of the New York Philharmonic, from which post Toscanini retired on April 1. But the German conductor had engagements in Wngland, Beunos Ayres, and Copenhagen up to early in 1937, and had to refuse,