GREAT DEVELOPMENT.
Radio Licenses At Home Number
Over 3,300,000.
BRIGHT FUTURE.
(British Official Wireless.) . RUGBY, September 18,
The British Broadcasting Corporation announces that'wireless license holders in Britain now number 3,363,000, exclusive of 17,000 licenses issued . free to blind people. This is- estimated to represent a," potential .audience of 10,p00,000 listeners. .
There is a wireless set in two.'6ut of every three houses in the country. In a message to the organiserslof . the National Radio Exhibition which is to be opener! to-day the Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald, prophesies that, in the future, broadcasting is destined to play a most important part in the cultivation of a friendly understanding between the nations. "The rapid development of this new power over Nature," says Mr, , Mac Donald, "gives us great opportunities, both cultural and industrial, and it is all important that we should.make the best use of them/' : ■'{
There'will be nearly 400 stands at the exhibition displaying sets and apparatus valued at mot;e than f0,000,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 7
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