NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19866, 9 February 1928, Page 14

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

BROADCASTING REVENUE.

The Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand is now receiving revenue at the rate of about £55,000 a year and has to operate four broadcasting stations. A comparison of the company's resources with those of Australian broadcasting interests is afforded by the following details of the revenue distributed for the year ended June 30, 1927, among the "A" stations. 2FC, Sydney, £50,910; 2BL, Sydney, £21,818; 3LO, Melbourne, £98,308; 3AR. Melbourne, £42,132; 4QG, Brisbane, £27,421; SCL, Adelaide, £24,808 ; 6WF, Perth, £4747; 7ZL, Hobart, £1613. Johannesburg. ; s completing a 10,000watt broadcasting station. With its assistance we may be able to pick up some of the All Blacks' doings next winter. A report says that 3LO has picked up and rebroadcast PCJJ, Holland, so clearly that listeners doubted that the transmission was really a rebroadcast. PCJJ now transmits regularly on 30 metres on Wednesdays and Fridays, 6.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.

Chelmsford's 24-metro transmission may eventually be maintained for tho full 24 hours each day so as to ensuro service throughout the Empire. B-battery eliminators are now on the New Zealand market in large numbers and variety. Those testod by the writer perform their function in a manner which would meet 'he requirements of the most exacting listener. Some of the most recent types have high-voltage tappings, giving as much as 180 volt', Where such eliminators are being used it should bo noted that only power valves which the manufacturers state can be used with 180 volts on the plate should be placed in tho receiving set if it is desired to connect to the 180-volt tapping. To apply 180 volts to the plate of a valve designed for 100 volts, say, will reduce the life of the valve very considerably as the resulting ex-' cessive ' plato current will inactivate the valvo filament. *