EMPIRE BROADCASTS
ILILC OFFICIAL TN N.Z,
.INVESTIGATION INTO RECEPTION
(Press Association.s
AUCKLAND, May 19
A. representative of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Mr. Malcolm A. Frost, arrived by the- Monterey to investigate New Zealand: reception of programmes from the Empire broadcasting station. He said the corporation did not intend to make a charge to any Dominion or ' colony for #the programme until a regular daily service of real entertainment value was provided. Owing to the poorness of reception in New Zealand, and the unsuitability of our stations for relaying, tho corporation had supplemented the Empire service with a scries of electrical transcriptions, for' which a small charge will be made.
lie emphasised. , that the Empire broadcasts were still in the expel - imontnl stage, and as a, further experiment the broadcasting hours were to be altered.: From Juno .1,. London would’ transmit frbrn 4.30 to. 6.30 o’clock- 'in "tho morning, five hours earlier than at present:
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11949, 20 May 1933, Page 5
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