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ACCORDING to a report in World Radio for July 5, the International Broadcasting Union concluded its annual meeting on June 26, at Warsaw. Representatives of broadcasting organisations in twenty European States and in the United States of America were present. It was stated during the course of the session that the potential audience of listeners at the beginning of June has reached at least 200 millions. Among the more important business of the conference was the decision to organise a limited number of international programmes each year, in the form of discourses in which direct contact will be established between the greatest contemporary leaders in science and art, and listeners in the various countries of the Union. The progress in technical precision in broadcasting stations in recent years is illustrated by the results obtained at the Union's central observation laboratory in Brussels. Whereas ten years ago stations were known to fluctuate a few thousand cycles per second from their normal frequency during the course of a few hours, to-day the principal European stations do not fluctuate more than one or two cycles in a month from their established frequency, which in many cases is of the order of one million cycles per second. This meeting formally marked the conclusion of the first ten years of the Union's activities; and it witnessed also the passing from the office of president of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Carpendale (a controller of the B.B.C.) who has been president of the Union since its foundation. Very warm tributes were paid to Sir Charles for his services in the cause of international broadcasting. The new president of the Union is M. Maurice Rambert, administrateur-delegue of the Socie'te’ Suisse de Radiodiffusion.
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International Broadcasting Union. Nature 136, 61 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136061c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136061c0