BROADCAST NEWS
UNAUTHORISED PUBLICATION. PENALTY IMPOSED. (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 7. The publisher of the “Western Times,” Bathurst, was fined £1 for publishing 1 portion of a broadcasting programme without the consent of the station concerned. This .is the first case of the hind in the Commonwealth under the Wireless Telegraphy Act. The charge related to a Moore field race result, which the Telegraph Department ascertained had not been transmitted by telephone and therefore must have been obtained from the wireless.
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Northern Advocate, 8 May 1930, Page 5
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