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June 15, 1937
U. S. HAS MORE RADIOS THAN EUROPE SANS RUSSIA
While incomplete, figures recently issued by the International Broadcasting Office at Geneva indicate that the United States is still well in the lead in the number of radio receiving sets. In fact, this country probably has more radio sets than all of Europe, excluding the Union of Russian Soviet Republic, which was not included in the count. Nevertheless, Europe gained more than 3,000,000 hadios in 1936.
This addition brought the total number of radio sets in the “European zone1', as defined by the Convention of Lucerne, to approximately 28,000,000. This count includes Spain at its 1935 figure, as no statistics are available on registrations in 1936.
The number of radioequipped homes in this country on January 1, 1937, was 24,269,000, and this figure did not include “extra" sets or auto radios.
The Columbia Broadcasting System estimated later in the Spring that there would be 25,000,000 radio families this Summer but a total of 34,000,000 sets. The extra 9,000,000 was obtained by allowing 4,000,000 "extra" sets for the radioequipped homes and 5,000,000 automobile radios.
Germany surpassed Great Britain during 1936 in the number of receiving sets in Europe for the first time in several years, the Geneva record shows. It reported 8,167,957 sets as compared to 7,914,506 for England.
Greece more than doubled its supply of radio sets and easily led in the percentages of increases. Only one country showed a loss. That was Bulgaria.
The chart as issued by the International Broadcasting Office follows:
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