FUTURE OF RADIO

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 7

FUTURE OF RADIO

INTERNATIONAL UNION

NEW SCHEME OF WAVE-LENGTHS

880 AD CASTING CONTBOL IN BRITAIN.

(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable As«n.) (Received 3rd April, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 2nd April. A crop of conjectures, including the possibility of closing several British broadcasting stations, has arisen from the report of a conference of twenty broadcasting., organisations, including British, which rrecominonds a new scheme of wave-lengths, Tinder which certain lengths will be allocated to existing and projected broadcasting stations belonging to the International Union. f - ' . ■, The report declares; that to ensure good results it is absolutely necessary that wave-lengths be- standardised by a wave, meter common to all countries, and every'station must adhere rigidly to its allotted length. The report has not yet reached the Post Office, which was not represented at the conference, except by the British Broadcasting Company, which is purely a private concern operating under Post [ Office license. Britain "may or may not | accept the whole or part of the recommendations, but in any case nothing will be done until the Government has considered the Parliamentary Committee 's report recommending the supersession of the/present Broadcasting Company by a" somi-offieial non-profit-earning commission analagous to .the Port of London Authority of which: the Postmaster-General will be the Ministerial head. The conference recommended that certain stations should have an- exclu-. sive wave-length capable of guaranteeing good reception at long ranges, "but the Posti Office is not prepared to consider these until the new Commission is determined. Meanwhile no British station is being cut out nor are Australia or New Zealand remotely affected. ■ . : ■ • ' , ■