The Archive · 1936

Government Contr

With the exception of stations operated by the Ministry of Communications (XQHC, "1,300 Ko.) and the Municipal Government (XGOD, all the broadcasting stations are Privately owned, relying upon advertising over the air to keep them running, which is the main reason for the storm of protests which arose when the Executive Yuan, Nanking, ordered all stations to re-broadcast a programme from XGOA, Nanking, for slightly over an hour every evening, There are two stations, however, which do not fall within' the above category, and both are very near each other on the dial, They are the Fo Yin Broadcasting Station (Buddhist) and the Shanghai Christian Broadcasting Station (XHHA, 840 kilocycles), both of which—broadcast religious programmes.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account