BROADCAST IN BRITAIN
PROGRESS OF DECADE. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. (BlAish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 14. The British Broadcasting Corporation this week is 'celeibratimg with special programmes its tenth anniversary. When the corporation took over the* control of broadcasting on Novembea’ 14, 1922,. there were ]R,OOO wireless license-holders in Britain; to-day there are over 5,000,001). The total programme time ten years' ago averaged 33 hours a week, compared with 83 hours at present. A large and flourishing industry lias developed with a wide growth of the popularity of broadcasting, and now nearly 200.000 people are directly employed in the manufacture, of wireless sets. Last year £30,000,000 was spent in Britain on the purchase o‘ sets and accessories.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 16 November 1932, Page 5
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115BROADCAST IN BRITAIN Hawera Star, Volume LII, 16 November 1932, Page 5
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