WIRELESS LICENSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 252, 19 September 1930, Page 7

WIRELESS LICENSES.

MILLIONS IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) Received September 19, 10.5 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 18. Tho British Broadcasting Corporation announces that wireless license holders now number 3,363,000, exclusive of 17,000 licenses issued free to blind people. This is estimated to represent a potential audience of 15,000,000 listeners. There is now a wireless set in two out of every three houses in the country. In a message to organisers of the National Radio Exhibition which opens to-morrow, the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, prophesies: “Broadcasting is destined to play a most important part in the cultivation of a friendly understanding between nations. The rapid development of this new power over Nature gives us great opportunities, both cultural and industrial, and it is all important that we should riiakfe the best use of them.” There will be nearly 4CQ stands at the exhibition,'displaying sets and apparatus valued at more than £5,000,000. ;