Radio: Radio Today

For the last two years Arno Huth, international radio authority, has been quietly inspecting world radio from the offices of the Geneva Research Centre in Switzerland. Last week his report, Radio Today; the Present State of Broadcasting in the World, was available in the U.S. Findings:

>Today's world radio audience numbers more than 400,000,000 listeners, is growing (despite shortages of materials, tubes, etc.) at the yearly rate of 10,000,000 receiving sets, 40 to 50 million listeners. Main reason: war-news hunger.

>Last January there were 2,836 long, short and medium wave transmitters in the world (North and Central America, 1,398; South...

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