Radio Round The World

Radio Record, 1 April 1938, Page 57

Radio Round The World

CCORDING to a foreign correspondent of an English newspaper, Franz Sykora and Rudolf Vitavsky, of ‘ywechoslovakia, are living radio receivers. "All they need do is to grasp the wires of a loud-speaker and close their eyes. They and their friends thereupon hear the programme of any nearby station." Irunz is a welder and 2udolf 2 mechanic. Neither has any special radio training that might account for his extraordinary powers, and upparently any suggestion of trickery has already been ruled gut. These two yadio marvels are to be tested at the Technical Institute of Prague, where

they have been invited to give demonstrations. It has been estimated that they can muster up about 800 volts between them. CCORDING to recently published statistics concerning broadcasting in Japan, it appears that on the whole, listeners prefer talks. No less than 51 per cent. of the total programme time during 1986 was devoted to a combination of news and topical talks, music occupying less than 10 per cent. of the time. Perhaps it’s just as well! HERE are now over three-quarters of wu willion licences issued in Poland, the actual figure being 773,470. A. large increase is expected when the

various new transmitters which are projected are put into service. On May 1 there were 922,814 listeners in Belgium, and 972,694 in Ozechoslovakia. On June 1 France had 3,926,902 and Germany 8,372,848 listeners. The total number of licences in force in Great Britain on June 1 was 8,208,000, representing an increase of 530,230 during the year. There were 360 successful wireless prosecutions during the month. "A WOMAN is one of the most popular ™ of the artists who are heard in the programmes given by the Egyptian State Broadeasting Company from Cairo. She is Umm Kulthum, known as the "Nightingale of the Hast."