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...Italian Government for the formation of a semi-official radio casting company, to have the monopoly of the air in Italy. The name of the company is the United Broadcasting Co. of Italy. It is a coalition of a number of companies, chief of which are the Sirac (Hammond), Radiofono (Marconi), Italian Western Electric and Radio Araldo (owned 'by a banking group). The coalition is to build three radiocasting stations. One at Milan with 395 metre wavelength, one at Rome with 425 metre wavelength and one at Taranto or Messina with 455 metre wavelength...
...licensing dues, and also subscription dues, or annual fees, from those who have receiving sets to get the benefit of the radiocasting. The Government reserves the right to use the radiocasting stations during the hours of 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 (p. m.) daily. Doubtless, although Mr. Hammond did not say so, the Government will exercise a strict censorship and employ radiocasting for propaganda purposes. Having obtained complete subservience of the press, Mussolini's next step was naturally to master the radio. This has gone to the extent that all radio equipments must be of Italian manufacture...
This is typical "Mussolini." But the interesting part of Mr. Hammond's arrangement is the provision for making radio listeners pay for their entertainment...
...other important result of Mr. Hammond's trip was the approval which the Italian Government gave to his system of narrowcasting, or secret radio. This system employs short wavelengths, superimposed with high frequency modulations. Unless a receiving station was properly fitted to receive these modulations, or to use his own phrase, "to straighten out the dents in the rays," the message could not be made...
This invention of Mr. Hammond Jr. is the product of 14 years' work−although at the present he is still a young man of 36. The younger John Hays had his early schooling abroad, partly in France, partly in England, partly in South Africa, where his father was working with Cecil Rhodes...