"WIRED" TELEVISION
AN EMPIRE PROSPECT
RUGBY, February 22. Delegates to the Empire radio conference, getting a preview of the 8.8.C.'s plans, heard that "wired" -television similar to relay radio has become more than a possibility, says the "Daily Express." Experiments are being made with cable and wire television to a screen in the home. Televised commercial programmes are being considered also, first for tlie big extensions of news broadcasts with 8.8.C. correspondents, to all the world's capitals; secondly, with relay stations at Malta. Aden, and Colombo for a complete Pacific hook-up; and, j thirdly, daily half-hour programmes, including news from the Empire for rebroadcast in Britain.
The "Daily Express" adds that Empire delegates are concerned over the market for short-wave sets. "In Australia American firms are offering them at from £15 to £55 apiece for delivery after the war. The demand for them is said to be due to the decline in the popularity of 8.8.C. broadcasts consequent on the growing number of listeners to American stations. It is felt that unless there is a quick return after the war to manufacture in Britain, the Australian market will be lost."— 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 47, 24 February 1945, Page 8
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