TOTAL RADIO WAR.
EUROPEAN STATIONS JAMMED. “VON DONALD” AND THE BBC. (Rec. 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 16. Total war has broken out between the radio services of the warring powers, says the “Daily Mail.” Last night there was wholesale jamming of European radio stations. Some announcers were furiously heckled by ghost voices. J his radio warfare threatens to reduce all broadcasting to chaos. Just before 10 o’clock last night every German medium and long-wave station was jammed, apparently at a given signal. The news broadcasts were reduced to faint voices against a- blarino- background of screams and whistles. 's'ho Rome radio introduced a novelty —an announcer who broke ofF his tali: from time to timo to answer back at the heckling voice. . . . The interrupter of the .British Broadcasting Corporation services is known as “von Donald” because he ! quacks angrily at times. He was audible in the British 9 p.m. news bulletin. The British Broadcasting Corporation in an official statement last night indicated that before taking serious action against von Donald listeners would be asked to state their views on his entertainment value. A Berlin spokesman denied that the Voice came from any German-controlled station.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 5, 17 October 1941, Page 6
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