WAVE LENGTHS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 105, 3 April 1926, Page 9

WAVE LENGTHS

BROADCASTING STATIONS. RECOMMENDATIONS MADE. NEW ZEALAND NOT AFFECTED. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received April 3, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, April 2. A crop of conjectures, including the possibility of closing several British broadcasting stations, has ariseii from the report of conferences representing 20 broadcasting organisations, including the British conference, which recommends a new scheme of wave lengths under which certain lengths will be allocated to existing and projected broadcasting stations belonging to the International Union. The report declares that to engure good results it is absolutely necessary that wave lengths bo standardised by a wave meter common to all countries, and every station must adhere rigidly to its allocated wave length. The report has not yet reached the Post Office, which was not represented at the conference except by the British Broadcasting Company, which is a purely private concern operating under Post Office license.

Britain may or may not accept the whole or part of the recommendations, but in any case nothing will be done until the Government has considered the Parliamentary Cornmit'teos report recommending the suppression of the present Broadcasting Comp any by a .semi-official, non-profit-earning commission, analogous to the Port of London Authority, of which the Postmaster will be the generlal ministerial head. The conference recommends that certain stations have an exclusive wave length callable of guaranteeing good reception at long ranges, but the Post Office is not prepared to consider this until the new commission has been determined. Meanwhile no British station is being cut out, ndr is Australia or New Zealand even motely affected.—A. and N.Z. cable*.