RADIO'S PROGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 48, 25 August 1930, Page 10

RADIO'S PROGRESS

IN STATES AND CANADA

BIG SOCIAL FACTOR

The two things which chiefly struck My. A. E. Harris, general manager of the Badio Broadcasting Company, during his recent trip through tho States and Canada were the enormous advance made in broadcasting as a social factor in people's lives and the wealth of talent at the disposal of the big broadcasting companies. Tho people in the States, he said, expect every event from $he big ones like tho reception to Admiral Byrd or the arrival of Kingsford Smith after his transAtlantic flight down to the smallest happening to be broadcast, and it is. Belays through station after station, perhaps forty in number, and in cases 3000 miles apart, enabled people in the remote areas of the States and Canada to keep in touch with events. Mr. Harris was, of course, chiefly concerned with the technical side of broadcasting, and tho results of his investigations are the subject of a special report. He remarked that ho was amazed at the advance made m all departments of the ' science. Improvements had been mado in all directions, and after repeated transmissions programmes came over as well as the original broadcast. The special reception station at Biverhcad to pick up English programmes was a marvel. A spaced system of aerials ensured the elimination of fading and reduction, and the English programmes came over as clearly as possible. These programmes wore m great demand for their news value.