BROADCASTING IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 14

BROADCASTING IN RUSSIA

I According to reports current among radio experts in Berlin, Soviet Russia is to have a 50-kilowatt sending station installed at Moscow. This station, when completed, will, until the projected American station in Maine, U.S.A., ousts it from its pride of place, be the most powerful in the world. The apparatus necessary is being manufactured in the big Lenin laboratories at Nijni Novgorod. | In European Eussia alone there are | at'present thirteen sending stations and the Government is continually adding to their number. It is seldom, however, that a private person in Eussia possesses a wireless receiving set of his own. As a general rule the Eussian villages have loudspeakers for collective use, the instrument being set up in some large room in the village where the villagers may assemble in the evening and listen to the entertainment and "instruction" provided. In the towns the loudspeaker is set up in public | libraries, factories, and other places of public access. \ With its powerful new sending station at Moscow the Soviet Comintern will be able to address its devotees over half the globe and will have the satisfaction of more fully than over realising its insatiable ambitions in the way of propaganda. In two or three weeks' time listeners all over Europe will be ablo to pick up the new station which is to take the place of the present Comintern station. . ' In Germany quite a number of people already listen in to the two well-known Moscow broadcasting stations PopoS and Radio Peredatcha. When weather conditions ■ are favourable Leningrad and Kiev can also be picked up.