BROADCASTING IN BRITAIN.
GROWTH OF THE WORK
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 16. The first annua,! report of the British Broadcasting Corporation shows, that the cost of wireless' programmes in 1927 was about £7 per hour. There were more than 68,000 hours of trans. mission from all stations, music occupying about two-thirds cf the programmes.
The income of the corporation was over £900,000, of which over £BOO,OOO came from licenses, and. the total expenditure was £770.000. Licenses number about 2,400,000, and) show an increase during the year of over 200,000.
Lessons by wireless are growing in favour in schools, 4000 of which are known to listen to London and Davenbry. Referring to experimental work, tins report, states that although undue expectations of Empire broadcasting for the near future are to be discouraged there is little, doubt, that, the prospects are encouraging.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 June 1928, Page 7
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