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Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1935, Page 4

An assurance that listeners to broadcast programmes need not fear that their receiving sets will be rendered useless by the development of television u'jis given by Lieutenant-Col-onel mOore-Bradazon, M.P., president of the' Radio Manufacturers' Association, a.t a luncheon at tbe Savoy Hotel, London. He said that so many misleading statements bad been published respecting television that tbe council of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association considered it their public duty to make an official statement. Both tbe British ' Broadcasting Corporation and the radio industry were anxious that the public should not be “panicked” by wild statements calculated. to give the impression that domestic television entertainment, on tbe scab; that radio brodcasting lmd attained was imminent or that it would supplant radio broadcasting as we now bad it. However television might develop, 'it would always be supplementary to radio broadcasting. The Radio Manufacturers’ Association, by virtue of the. pooled knowledge of all the finest technicians in the radio industry, was fully aware of the linos ~dong which television might be expected to develop, and it was on the basis of that knowledge that they warned tbe public against being stampede,] by ill-informed statements. Whatever system was employed, tbe present type of modern radio receiver would continue in use. In tbe early stages of tbe development of television tbe ‘programme value would be of such a standard that it could not fail to compare unfavourably with ra dio-broadc.u.sting. Television entertainment, as television apparatus was in the experimental MagT, ana a new technique bad to be worked out for it. It would take years to develop the technique of television entertainment to the standard that radio ynoadcasting 'bad attained, an 0r that reason alone the present typoe of modem radio-receiver would be m popular use.