Radio Round the World

Radio Record, 10 June 1938, Page 41

Radio Round the World

HERTS were over 1300 applicants for a recent vacancy for a broadcast announcer in South Africa. There were several candidates over 50 years of age, one being 7], [* addition to talks in the chief European ianguages, Arabic, and Hindustani, Italian stations are now broad‘asting in Serbian, week, Turkish, Rumanian, Albanian, Chinese and Japanese. FyPUCATIONAT broadcasts were begun three years aog in Finland, these. being made possible by the generosity of nearly three thousand enthusiastic pedagogues, who presented their home receivers to the schools, These sets are now on their last légs, but the Government has come to the reseue by ag.ceing to defray two-thirds of the cost of supplying new and up-to-date receiving equipment, » [ULEGAL transmitting stationswhat the Germans eall "black" broadeasting stations-are ‘so unpopular with the German Government ‘that a jaw has been passed whereby anybody who is found to own a clandestine station is liable to ‘penal servitude This is the penalty merely for having a station which is not licensed: if the too enthusiastic broadcaster. has heen nuwise enough to send out any programme which is considered hostile to the Government he is in far orse ease, for may then he eharged with heh treason liable to the death penal ty by beheading,