Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

RADIO IN LATIN AMERICA Business and Government Leaders Below the Border Set Example in Modernizing Communications and Broadcast Services. PROGRESSIVE business and government leaders in a dozen Latin American countries are set- ting an example for the rest of the world in streamlining and modern- izing vital communication and broadcasting services. Plans which had been curtailed for several years because of war- inflicted shortages of equipment and materials began crystalizing soon after V-J Day. Since then there have been steadily increasing demands upon United States man- ufacturers to supply means and methods with which to effect de- sired improvements. Orders being filled by the Radio Corporation of America through RCA International Division dis- tributors reflect the high degree of vision and progressive thinking prevalent in the good neighbor re- publics. New RCA installations planned or completed in Brazil, for example, include three powerful radio broad- casting transmitters and a radio system of communication for Volta Redonda, the Brazilian govern- ment's $50,000,000 steel develop- ment enterprise. The radio trans- mitters met the recent Brazilian regulation requiring all clear-chan- nel stations to operate on 50 kilo- watts. The stations are: Radio Nacional, Radio Tupi and Radio Clube. By Meade Brunei Managing Director RCA International Division At Volta Redonda, destined to be the largest steel plant in Latin America, the management depends heavily upon radio communications to coordinate its production pro- gram. RCA radio transmitters and receivers have been installed at main points of the steel empire, not only linking each strategic unit with the operations center, but also connecting the center with the head offices in Rio de Janeiro. The Volta Redonda and other Brazilian contracts were arranged by RCA Victor Radio, S. A., asso- ciate company of RCA in Rio Janeiro. A $2,000,000 radio development project is under way in Havana, Cuba, with plans calling for the erection of a "Radiocentro"—simi- lar in many respects to New York's Radio City. The project includes a modern broadcasting station with eight studios, echo chambers, re- cording rooms and a master control room, completely equipped by RCA. The same group also is installing the first RCA FM broadcasting transmitter in Cuba. Mexican government and busi- ness leaders are also active. Com- pleted recently by RCA, was the powerful station XERF in the bor- der town of Villa Acuna, State of Coahuila. This station, costing in the neighborhood of $300,000 to build, is operating temporarily on 50,000 watts but its power may be increased to 150,000 watts. In addition to station XERF a num- ber of other modern broadcasting stations have been installed in other parts of Mexico. They include stations XELG at Leon, XEAM in Matamoros, XEBT at Torreon and XEBS in Mexico City. In Ciudad Trujillo, capital of the Dominican Republic, engineers have recently completed installation of an RCA 10-kilowatt station to be known as "La Voz del Yuna". It was purchased by Major J. Aris- mendi Trujillo, brother of the pres- ident of the Dominican Republic, who has also installed an RCA short wave station. A similar short wave transmitter has been erected by the Director General of Communica- tions for the Republic. President Raphael Trujillo has purchased Radiomarine radar and a complete shipboard installation of radiotelephone and radiotele- (Continued on page 31) MODERN, AIR CONDITIONED HOME OF STATION WIAC IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO. Ul ut till nil ONE OF THE SEVERAL STUDIOS IN THE NEW BUILDING ERECTED BY WIAC. [28 RADI O AGE]