BROADCASTING SCHEME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 10

BROADCASTING SCHEME

FOUR POWERFUL STApONa^W DAY AND NIGHT ; SElVlCeif^B ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMMES, 1 [BY telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.] " ) WELLINGTON. Friday. |§ A conference of representatives of the 11 radio broadcasting trade from all parts if of the Dominion was concluded to-day ;H after a two-days' session. Th» object v-Jfl of the conference was the formulation of '9 a Dominion-wide broadcasting scheme, -9 based en suggestions recently embodied in 9 a statement by the Postmastor-Genernl 9 Hon. J. G. Coates. * \H The conference has drawn tip a schema. M ! which is, it is claimed, calculated to j® j afford satisfaction tu ioth listeners-:n- 9 ! and the trade. The scheme provides fop 81 j the installation of 500 kilowatt concert St : transmitting stations at Auckland, Wei, E I lington, Christchurcli and Dunedio. It fl |is proposed that the service will be a, fl : day and night service, embodying high- fl t class and popular musical items, lectures fl market reports, bed-time stories, and fl ; weather forecasts. The Government, it i» fl ! stated, would add an additional sura to fl i the license fee of all listening-in sets, and fl j part of this money v ould be handed to fl i the broadcasting company to defray the SI ; cost_ of transmitting. At present the 2 ; service is purely gat-uitous and it i* I i therefore very interior to what -,YO';l<i B , be provided under the new proposal. I j A deputation will wait, on '.jo Post- fl | master-General at an early date to place fl | the scheme before him. The stations %/>■ fl ] will operate on different wave lengths ft; P simultaneously and those who have mora S powerful sets car. select programmes with- j§ out. any extra charge, the cne fee c,.er- 1 i ing the four centres. H