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The Wo r I d CLOSER THAN YOU THINK Here is the outline, as of today: Western Europe has made the great¬ est international progress with its eight-nation Eurovision network, about which you have read in TV GUIDE. Using both cable and micro- wave, several series of programs have been transmitted simultaneously to Britain, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Switzerland. Sweden and Spain, now operating experimentally, may be able to join Eurovision this year. When Luxem¬ bourg and the Saar get on the air in the next few months, it will be easy to hook them into the web. Russia, believed to have seven sta¬ tions, has already inquired about ex¬ tending Eurovision through the Iron Curtain. Poland has a station and Czechoslovakia hopes to have two or three before 1956. The first North African station has begun operations at Casablanca, French Morocco. It will not be dif¬ ficult to connect North Africa with Europe via a coaxial cable or long microwave throw across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain. Both Egypt and South Africa will have their initial stations on the air this year. Here in the Western Hemisphere, the United States is regularly linked with Canada. Last fall, the World Series was telecast to baseball-mad Cuba, in an interesting experiment. The program was sent down to Key West in routine fashion, then micro- waved out to sea. Half-way to Cuba, a DC-3 plane, equipped with com¬ plete relay facilities, flew a tight cir¬ cle at an altitude of 8,000 feet during each game, picking up the program and boosting it along to Matanzas on the Cuban coast, whence it was re¬ layed to the island’s TV stations. One early result of the new A. T, & T. tests will be to provide regular microwave service to Cuba, without benefit of relay. Meantime, stations are operating in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and Dominican Republic. Already projected is a link from Dallas, Tex., to Mexico City. But that’s not all. In East Asia, Japan is making giant strides toward a nationwide TV network. The Philip¬ pines and Thailand are operating a station each, and a Nipponese-Philip- pine link is widely discussed. Additionally, India and Turkey will be on the air this year, as will Aus¬ tralia. That’s the outline as of today. From here on, it is a matter of filling in the gaps in the global TV jigsaw puz¬ zle, with the Atlantic hookup as one of the major pieces .—Herman Lowe 19