8.8. C. ULTIMATUM
More Money Or Poorer Programmes HEAVY EXPENSES Two New Transmitters For Foreign Broadcasts By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 24.
“More money or poorer programmes” is the ultimatum of the British Broadcasting Corporation, whose report for 1937 discloses that in spite of an income of £3,356,000, expenses, including those of television, are so heavy that the corporation does not possess reserves or funds for replacements. It adds that expenditure for 1938 will be higher, owing to the building of two new shortwave transmitters to enable foreign broadcasting. The corporation receives 75 per cent, of licence receipts, but experience has shown that this is required for sound broadcasting, in order to maintain the standard of programmes, on which expenditure last year was £1,729,000, while engineering expenses were £598,000. Simultaneously with publication of the report, the Treasury announced a supplementary estimate of £360,000 for television and propaganda broadcasts.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 129, 25 February 1938, Page 11
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