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Methods of Improving Broadcasting Reception: Low Cost Receivers as Means of Making Broadcasting Available to the Masses (India)

United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Working Paper (1962), 9 pp.
"Present position regarding the shortage of radio receivers in the underdeveloped regions and factors contributing to this state of affairs — Typical specifications for a receiver considered suitable for the present radio cover — Factors determining the price of receivers — Comments on receivers designed for electrified or non-electrified zones — Methods permitting the reduction of receiver prices — Special requirements as regards designing components for tropical conditions — Distribution, launching on the market and after-sales services — Community radio receivers in rural areas — Appendix: specifications regarding the minimum performance of a very cheap radio receiver. [Working Paper, 21 Sept. 1962. Contribution to: The United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Geneva, 4 to 20 February 1963. E/Conf. 39/L/1. Agenda Item: L]" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2284, topic code 231)