REGIONAL WIRELESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 86, 13 April 1931, Page 7

REGIONAL WIRELESS.

Extension of Broadcasting Plan In Britain. LOCALISING PROGRAMMES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 12. The new north regional transmitting station of the British Broadcasting Corporation, near Slaithwaite, on the Yorkshire moors, shortly will commence transmission. The opening of the new station, which has been erected at a cost of £160,000, will mark the progress of the corporation's plan to provide alternative programmes for owners of smaller and lese expensive receiving sets by a system of high-powered regional transmitters. The north regional station, which has heen built en the same lines as the North London station at Brookman's Park, will serve a thickly populated industrial area besides taking its place in the general national scheme for alternative services. The regional programmes are representative of the cultural characteristics of each area and the new station will he called upon to interpret that part of England which as "the north" is proud of its great universities, world-famous orchestras and choirs, ire native drama and literature and its rich civic and industrial life. Another regional station at Falkirk. Scotland, is in the course rf erection.