BROADCASTING.
A TRIVIAL FUTURE. MR WELLS'S VIEW. 'MT r«a-' -?%-=5 ASSOCIATION— COI-iTtIGHT.) a -'sir ili"s - CABLE SSOCUTIO;; ; LONDON, April 3. Mr II U. Wells, in an exclusive article to the -Daily Express,'' says the future of broadcasting. like the future of cross-word pazzles and Oxford trousers, is very trivial. :; In>'e>'d " lie snyo, ,: it would be. mLe'es*ni" to know bow many original se'-s h»ve been smashed up, or now inanv have ceased listening : iii. What is wanted i, not impartial, impersonal, unsectaiia'n. non-contnnorsial, unprc-iuJi.-ed. kindlv stuff through loud«rveaker< but an invention such as a* tape inac-hine, allowing wireless recording on a simple set of news events of the world, broadcast by somebody knowirit; his job." Incidentally, -virdess hce'ifs I,Rve grown from 10.U00 to 4,750,000. The Oxforcl-Camlridgo bo."t race was fauitlesslv broadcast throughout England from a launch following closely. This succeeded a superb broadcast ot the Grand National, while there are elaborate preparation* to broadcast the Derbv.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18968, 5 April 1927, Page 9
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