Nazi radio penetration reached 16 million households by 1942

Evidence

Easily within the means of the average worker, the radio was marketed extensively; so that by 1942 Germany had increased its radio audience from 4.5 to over 16 million households. The Nazi state matched Britain and America in radio penetration, giving the leadership the sort of intimate access to homes that Amos ‘n’ Andy enjoyed. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 417

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did Goebbels fund and distribute subsidized Volksempfänger receivers — what was the industrial supply chain story?
• XREF: connects to: Hitler’s 1935 broadcast reached 70 percent of German households, 56 million people — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 382