ON February 23, 1933, Norway celebrated its tenth anniversary of radio broadcasting. An article by Mr. E. A. Brofus published in Radiobladet (Feb. 17) has been translated in the July issue of Electrical Communication, the journal of the Standard Electric Corporation. The author recalls that he erected in the office of the newspaper Nationen in Oslo in the early part of 1919 a small loudspeaker to broadcast the progress of the great skating race at Frogner to the people gathered in Karl Johansgate. A telephone line connected the skating rink to the newspaper office, but none of the amplifiers available was suitable and so a clerk in the office had to act as a human ‘repeater’. He repeated word by word the messages he received into a microphone connected with three small loudspeakers in the street. The police objected as the crowd blocked the thoroughfare, and so this early forerunner of broadcasting had a short life. Broadcasting began early in 1923, when a 500-watt station was installed at Oslo. In those days the ether was not, as now, jammed by high-power broadcasting stations and so the reception was excellent. It was at first proposed to put a tax on all receiving sets sold, but this was modified into an annual tax of 2-5 kroners on every set installed. As early as May 1923 it was demonstrated that it was possible to broadcast to the fishing fleet from the northern part of Norway. In the very early days, to receive a portion only of what was broadcast was considered satisfactory. Now not only is the complete message intelligible but the finer nuances of speech and music are transmitted over great distances without audible impairment. The small station at Oslo has been replaced by one of 100,000 watts. Marvellous progress has been made during the last ten years.