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BRITAIN’S RADIO POPULATION
Britain still has the greatest number or radio listeners of any country except America. She is, however, being overtaken by Germany.
This is apparent from comparative license statistics collected by the International Broadcasting Union, showing the relative popularity of broadcasting. At the end of June the British total of licenses was 7.695.452 —one to everv six persons. Germany had 7,599,251—one to every eight persons. At the end of last year Britain had about 600,000 more licenses than Germany. In Germany, however, there are 579,153 free licenses. In Britain there were 44.772 free licenses, granted to blind listeners.
As there is no licensing system in America, no exact figures are obtainable, but, according to the latest official estimate there are 25,632.000 sets in use. the vast majority in the United States. Next in order, after America. Britain and Germany, is France, where the total at the end of May was 2,929,000. One of the lowest, in proportion to population, is Italy, with only. 579,870 licenses.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 3
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