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...Transradio Press Service prides itself on news it gets from overseas (through France's Agence Havas, Britain's Central News Agency, Germany's Transocean News Service, British Official Wireless, and its own private sources), distributes by air and teletype to some 210 U. S. and Canadian radio stations, 50-odd U. S. newspapers. With British United Press, Transradio offers the only news in Canada which can be sold to commercial sponsors. Canadian Press, Canada's third news agency, supplies its bulletins to the official Canadian Broadcasting Corp., cannot be sponsored...
...been some trouble over news being put out in an unduly alarming form. . . . This organization puts out bulletins with a London date line, but we have not been able to find its London offices or London sources of news." The Transport Minister hinted that there had been complaints about Transradio : listeners thought it was pro-Nazi...
Both licenses were canceled as of July 1, might be restored, said Minister Howe, if the agencies could "show their news source is accurate." By week's end B. U. P. announced that its license had been renewed. Transradio's situation was more obscure...
...spite of its mushroom growth since 1934, Transradio operates on a shoestring compared with worldwide press associations like A. P. or U. P. In Europe, where most of its news originates at present, Transradio has only three or four full-time reporters. In London last September, Transradio had two men, and both departed after war broke out. For several months Transradio's London office had no tenant, no name on its door. Then Alexander Paton, correspondent for some Scottish newspapers, took over. Scotsman Paton's cable stories are brief, innocuous, readily passed by British censors...
...news of France, Transradio relies on the semi-official Agence Havas. Their agreement stipulates that Havas dispatches can be given only to newspapers, not to broadcasters. From Berlin, Transradio picks up short-wave bulletins broadcast by Germany's Transocean News Service. All news originating in London, no matter where Transradio happens to find it, bears a London date line...