TELEVISION SUCCESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 11

TELEVISION SUCCESS

{. ~ PROGRESS IN BRITAIN. 30-MILE RADIUS SERVED. LEAD TO OTHER COUNTRIES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 25, 10.20 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 24. Scenes from the cricket Test at the Oval -were’ shown on television sets at the Olympia Exhibition today. Discussing television developments in a broadcast, Mr C. G. Graves (deputy-Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation) said that they could look forward to a national television service. The range of the present transmitter had proved to be greater than was expected. Although a 30-mile radiums was regarded as the service area of the station, many private viewers up to over 100 miles away were receiving programmes regularly and well.

The problem of carrying programmes to Birmingham or some other important centre either by cable or by wireless link, added Mr Graves, was not an easy one. The corporation at present was eagerly awaiting the result of experiments which the Post Office was to carry out. Mr Graves said that, in television, Britain, with its established home service, had a two-year lead on any other country. America and other countries were impressed by what had been done in England in creating a great national industry.