BRITISH BROADCASTING.
TRANSMISSION TO EAIPIRE. COAIPLAINT FROM NEW ZEALAND LONDON, July 31. The Daily News has received numerous letters from Dominion readers confirming its charge that the British Broadcasting Corporation is backward in developing Empire broadcasting. A New Zeadamd correspondent forwards the broadcasting times of tlie jScheneotady station, which show that transmission i.s for 49 hours a week, as compared with 29 liour.s from Chelmsford 5 SAW He adds: “The worst feature is the complete shutting down of SSAY on Saturdays and Suniluy.s, which compels Australia and New Zealand to rely on the United States and Holland. There does not seem to he a true Empire spirit in the British Broadcasting Corporation.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 13 August 1929, Page 5
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