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 America, 508; Europe, Russia and Turkey, 472; Asia, 216; Oceania, Australia & New Zealand, 165; Africa, 77). This showed a six-year increase of some 800.

>Germany, which had 30 radio stations before the war, has picked up 98 stations in occupied territories (twelve in Russia). Last spring Germany controlled 16,000,000 radio receivers, required schoolteachers to halt lessons long enough to receive daily news bulletins. (Adolf Hitler: "Without motor lorries, without aeroplanes and without loudspeakers we should not have conquered Germany.")

>Despite increased time devoted to news and propaganda, music consumes at least 50% of all broadcasting time--from 78.5% in Portugal to 10% in Japan.

>Although the Dutch destroyed the principal transmitters of their 48 East Indies stations, the Japanese had enough back in service in April to resume broadcasting.

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