CORONATION BROADCAST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 3 May 1937, Page 8

CORONATION BROADCAST

lIOW CEREMONY WILL BE RELAYED 750,000,000 LISTENERS [By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent] LONDON, 3rd April. Over 750,000,000 people of 70 nations, speaking 100 different languages, will listen-in to the Coronation broadcast. The whole world wants to hear the ceremony, it was explained this week. Interest is even greater than in that historic farewell speech by the Duke of Windsor after his abdication. One hundred microphonic points, installed in Westminster Abbey, will pick up every syllable of the service; 36 more along the procession route will enable observers to tell everything about the pageantry in the streets. Every word and sound which is picked up by the microphones will be carried over land lines to the International Telephone Exchange. From there they will be flashed all over the world, by means of 250,000 miles of telephone and telegraph wires and submarine cables. Mongols, Caucasians, Negroes, Malayans, and many others will hear the ceremony re-broadcast in their own lands, by their own radio stations. In addition to the Empire 8.8. C. service, there ceremony will be transmitted by the Imperial Radio system to the United States, Canada, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia and New Zealand.