WIRELESS BROADCASTING.
800 PERMITS ISSUED.
NOT YET A SUCCESS. {BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON. Wednesday. About 800 permits for listening-in have been issued to amateurs of wireless, and another 300 or 400 are under consideration. Some 20 licenses for sending have been issued, but the regulations under the Act have not yet been gazetted. One official expressed the opinion that broadcasting would only have a very short run, as a knowledge of the Morse system is required to pick up news, and people would soon get tired of hearing gramaphone records by wireless. It may be mentioned that a recent attempt here to give a public concert was a dismal and hopeless failure. In England they have been talking of broadcasting for many raontas, but up to the latest mail advices absolutely nothing had been done, am! inquiries made of the British Wireless Broadcasting Company evoked a reply that it was impossible to say when a start would be made. The manager of a leading Sydney paper, who recently made extensive inquiries in England, is also of opinion that the expected boom will come to nothing;.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18267, 7 December 1922, Page 8
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185WIRELESS BROADCASTING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18267, 7 December 1922, Page 8
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