Radio Round The World

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 39

Radio Round The World

JN order to prevent speakers in ' triangular discussions on the NBC network over-running their allotted time, thre. warning lights have been installed in each of the three sides of a new triangular table which, built un like a beheaded pyramid, is to be used by the debaters. The coloured lights flicker warnings at two minutes, one minute and 10 seconds before the speaker is to stop talking.

LATEST estimates plaee the number of car radio installations in England at between 40,000 and 50,000, or approximately 2% per cent. of cars on the road, while 20 per cent. of America’s cars are radio-eaquipped. FIGURES issued by the International Union of Radiodiffusion placed the known number of wireless receivers throughout the world at approximately 70,000,000. Assuming an average of 3.75 persons per family, this places the total number of listeners at 262,500,000. BRESLAU is the first town to be equipped with the elaborate PA installation to be erected throughout Germany in the next few years. Breslau’s equipment consists of 100 of the special loudspeaker columns or kiosks. [HE BBC has to obtain a special Post Office permit for transmitting after hours. Strictly speaking, it is not authorised to transmit after the first stroke of Big Ben at midnight, though no official has yet issued a challenge regarding the relaying of the other eleven strokes!