Abstract
THE International Broadcasting Union (or the Union Internationale de Radiodifmsion—to use its official title) is making its first official visit to Great Britain at the meeting which is being held in London from June 12 until June 20. The issue of World Radio of June 8 contains a series of articles describing the organisation and work of the Union. When the Union was founded in London in March 1925, eight European countries were represented, and according to the minutes of that meeting it was estimated that the broadcasting stations in Europe at that moment radiated a total energy of 80 kilowatts, of which 43 kilowatts emanated from stations in Great Britain. At the present time, in the tenth year of the Union's existence, twenty-five countries have members within the Union and the radiated energy of more than 250 stations included within what is officially recognised as the European zone is about 4,250 kilowatts. The particular function of the Union with which the listening public is probably most familiar is that of “policing the ether”— in other words, maintaining the wave-lengths of stations so far as possible uninterrupted by those of other stations.
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International Broadcasting Union. Nature 133, 903 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133903a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133903a0