WIRELESS AND BRITAIN
REMARKABLE GROWTH (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 11th August. The Postmaster-General, Sir Kingslev Wood, speaking at a Savoy Hotel lunch held for the forthcoming radio exhibition to bo staged at Olympia, London, this month, commented on the remarkable growth of broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He said that 4£ million people paid for wireless sets each year, and there was little doubt the numbers would soon reach five million. Britain was leading the world in broadcasting, but tho exploitation of wireless was only just beginning. Its popularity and progress in the United Kingdom owed much to British radio manufacturers, who had reason to be proud of the part they were playing in the development of broadcasting.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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