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CONTINUANCE FAVOURED. REPORT PRESENTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received March 17, 1.55 p.m. RUGBY, March 16. The committee set up last year by the Postmaster-General to consider the constitution, control and finance of the broadcasting service in Britain has issued its report. It expresses high appreciation of the management of the broadcasting system by the British Broadcasting (Corporation and recommends that the Royal Charter be extended for a term of ten years. The chief financial recommendations are that broadcast receiving licensee fees should remain at 10s; that of the net revenue from these licenses, after deducting Post Office costs, the larger share (namely, 75 per cent.) be allotted to the corporation and 25 per cent, be regarded as potentially available for broadcasting to the Empire, which should be developed and extended.
Questioned by the Australian Associated Press concerning the committee’s references to Empire transmissions. Sir Stephen Tallents said the Broadcasting Corporation entirely agreed that there should be a development of Empire transmissions. The corporation was considering schemes by which the broadcasting hours to the Dominions would be extended, and was also paying attention to developing the engineering side, enabling clearer receptions. The committee’s recommendation was that the corporation should receive a larger proportion of the license revenue, which would be most helpful in the development and improvement of Empire transmissions. Corporation officials said there was reason to expect an improvement in reception in the future. Short-wave transmission was approaching the good “eleven year cycle,” and no doubt by the time of the next bad cycle experts would have overcome all the difficulties from which Australia and New Zealand, particularly, suffered. Improvement in the programmes was at present receiving the closest attention.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 2
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