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RADIO SAILS TO FOREIGN PORTS
American receivers find ready acceptance in other lands
Himself leading the world in ownership of radio sets, Uncle Sam is still no slouch when it comes to finding radio acceptance abroad. During the last year the United States exported 618,710 receivers to 123 different foreign countries.
In terms of saturation, the foreign market has a rich aspect compared with conditions here; there are 37,
666,000 receivers in use in this country and only about 40,500,000 sets operating in the rest of the world combined. Radio ownership for U. S. is reported as 290.15 sets per 1,000 people. The world's next highest saturation point is in the little country of Denmark, where there are 189.96 radios among every 1,000 Danes. Germany ranks second in the total num
ber of radios owned, having 9,087,454. Below are presented the figures on the "world of radio," with countries ranked according to importance as buyers of American sets. Our 20 best customers are included, followed by other nations of interest. Figures came from the International Broadcasting Union, the U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Broadcasting, and XBC.
NO. OF SETS
WORLD RANK
RANK AS BUYERS OF U. S. SETS
Mexico 1
Brazil 2
United Kingdom 3
Union of S. Africa 4
Cuba 5
New Zealand 6
Venezuela 7
Fra
nee
8.
Portugal ... . . 9.
Colombia. . British India
Chile
Canada. . . .
Peru
Turkey. . . . Egypt
10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16 Uruguay 17.
PER 1,000 IN SETS PER FEES FOR SET
POPULATION 1,000 OWNERS SETS IN USE .'. 20.83 40 None 350,000
. 11.11 44 None 500,000
183.58. 3 Set Tar 8,479,500
. . 88.18 22 Set Tax 180,227
. . 25.34 35 None 105,543
• 174.19. 4 Annual license 279,054
. . 21.25 39 None 85,000
. . 99.35 16 Set Tax 4,163,692
. . 9.4 47 Set Tax 65,280
. 6.4 — None 58,000
. . 0.18 — Set Tax 48,000
. 1 7.5 — None 75,000
. 97.85 18 Set Tax 1,103,768
Philippines.
China
Sweden . . .
Italy
Germany. .
Japan
Russia
18. 19. 20
None 39,000
... 21,500
— Set tax plus tube fee 70,000
— None 125,000
— None 25,000
— None 300,000
5 Set Tax 1,074,473
41 Set Tax 795,000
133.99 7 Set Tax 9,087,454
34.79 31 Set and monthly tax 3,402,489
22.12.. 37 Set Tax 3,760,400
6.3
1.5.
. 4.6.
59.5.
1.7.
0.81
170.55
. 18.36
January, 1939
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