EMPIRE SERVICE CAUSES CONCERN
In support ol the writer’s recent remark that the Umpire service appears to he a failure, conics the report that tin service' from the Daventry shortwave static 1 ! i« causin'!; a lot of conference at Broadcasting House. fasteners are complaining that both the programmes and the transmissions are unsatisfactory. Miy-Cecil Graves, head of the programme section, and his staff have realised from the thousands of letters they have received that the fact that a programme is coming from the. other side of the world was all verv well at first. Now that the novelty has worn off it is being realised that somehow more money will have to be spent on providing good programmes that will sell the service on its entertainment value alone. Transmission troubles are being remedied bv expensive alterations at the station'. Tall steel masts, supporting an aerial which will -provide service in cverv direction simultaneously, are being erected. Fven if this fails, other ideas will be tried out. If necessary relay stations may be established at various centres in the dominions and colonies.
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Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 4
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181EMPIRE SERVICE CAUSES CONCERN Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 4
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