BROADCASTING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18917, 4 February 1927, Page 11

BROADCASTING.

EMPIRE STATION ADVOCATED.

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LONDON, February 2. The "Daily Express" draws attention in a front page feature article to the lamontablo absence of a powerful British broadcasting station giving the Dominions news of happenings in the Mother Country.

It asks: Why is it not possible for Australia, for instance, to hear the King and the Hon. Stanley Baldwin speaK. The much-horalded Daventry station exhausts its power in Europe. It is absurd to think that Australians reaching out into the world are capable of picking up Russia and America while Mother England is silent. "It would easily be possible to increase Daventry'e power and then relay through Australian stations." The paper devotes an editorial on the mibject, stating: "It is bad enough to see Australia and Africa overrun by American motor-cars and pictures. By intensive methods the Americans havo succeeded in beating us there. But inter-Empiro communication is of infinitely greater import-' ance, and simply must not fall into foreign hands.