Evening star., 1924-09-21
RADIO SALES WIDEN
!. ALL OVER WORLD
Immense Expansion Attrib-
uted Largely to Press Pub
Iicity of Discovery.

While the activity in amateur
radio work and in broadcasting is
still greater in the United States than
in any other nation, the past year
has brought about marked changes
in the situation in many foreign
countries, according to the electrical
division of the Department of Com
merce. Today few are the nations
which have not recognized the popu-
lar and growing interest in radio by
the enactment or revision of regula-
tions of one sort or another.
Naturally, the development abroad
has had its greatest growth in Eu-
rope. In the British Isles, France,
Germany. Sweden, Switzerland, Hol-
land, Belgium, Denmark and Czecho-
Slovakia, the broadcasting of pro-
grams OF entertainment and news is
on a rather regular basis, while in
Italy, Finland, Spain and Austria
programs are sent out at irregular
periods, with a decided likelihood of
regular schedules being adopted in
the no great distant future. In other
countries of Europe there has been
some sale of lonE-range sets to pick
up British and French stations.
Argentina Is Advancing.
In South America, Argentina stands
out as having made the greatest
progress in the dissemination of
music and other entertainment by
radio telephony, with Chile also
maintaining regular broadcasting
service. For n time, regular services
were also maintained in Brazil and
Will, undoubtedly, be establish ed
In the course of time. Uruguay, as
result of broadcasting from Buenos
eIr5S, has shown a considerable in
terest in radio, and in Peru arrange
ments are going forward looking
toward the establishment of regular
service.
Australia and New Zealand have
each displayed much interest in the
new art and in view of the recent
Il1uns OF hampering regulations in
Australia, a marked expansion in
rddlo interest in that country may
be looked for. In the Orient, little
mas as yet taken place, though India
anu Ceylon are opening up, and in
termlttent broadcaSting is being pro-
Nloed. In Japan, adequate legisla-
ton mas been enacted, making pro-
vision for the establishment of broad
casting stations, but little progress
mas taken place. In China radio is
technically barred under an embargo
forbidding the entry of ANYTHING
uSaple as war material, though in the
brltlsh port of Hong Kong and in
Tue international settlement of Shang-
hal, some broadcasting has been done.
L. $. Least Restricted.
In no foreign country is the use
OF radio receiving sets as free and
unrestricted as in the United States
Even In Canada users of receiving
sets must pay nominal license fee
therefor, while in some countries the
restrictions imposed and the license
fees assessed are onerous.
W nile most of the countries ,,,h OH
nave enacted Legislation on radio
telephony during the past year or
two have established certain wave
bands, not varying widely from that
IN TINS country, which must be used
Ior private broadcasting, not a little
OF the European broadcasting is at
wave lengths greater than those in
use in the United States. and for
which American sets are designed.
Designed as a rule for the wave
band provided forZ broadcasting in
TINS country, American radio sets and
certain parts have been handicapped
10 some extent in certain foreign
markets. On the whole, however, it
may be expected that the situation
rs regards wave lengths will tend to
improve and that there will be less
and less handicap from this quarter,
The interest! shown by plantation
owners, mine operators, ranchers and
he M Ihe Interior or India,
Ceylon, Central America, South Amer
lea, Australia and parts of the East
Indies IS sufficient to indicate that
the field is there.
Manufactu turers and exporters, how
ever, have become so accustomed to
having the merits and possibilities of
radio well understood by the potential
buying public, as result of the inn
mense publicity given radio by the
press or TINS country, that they lose
sight of the fact that men in out
lying regions, in little touch with the
newspaper press and having little
contact with any one who knows
radio at all, do not themselves ap-
preciate fully its possibilities.