BRITISH BROADCASTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20116, 29 November 1928, Page 11

BRITISH BROADCASTS.

CORPORATION'S NEW HOME. COSTLY BUILDING GOING UP. (Received November 28, 5.5 p.m.) United Service. LONDON. Nov. 27. A tower of silence will be a featuro of tho British Brpadcas'ting Corporation's new headquarters now being erected in Portland Place, Oxford Circus, at a cost of between £400,000 and .11,500,000. It will take more than two years to erect and will be one of the finest buildings in the world. The structure will contain nino insulated studios, one to accommodate an audience of 1000 people. They will be grouped in a central tower. Each studio will bo a combined s/iite, comprising a waiting-room and rooms tor bands and engineers, also a listening room, an echo room arid an announcing room.

The studios will be protected from street noises by a complete outer layer of offices, and tho absence of vertical steel work will eliminate sound transference between them.

A British wireless message says the corporation will move from Savoy Hill as soon as tho now building has been erected.

POPULAR ANNOUNCER. A FORTUNE OF £90,000. United Service. LONDON, Nov. 27. The Hon. David Terinant, one of the London wireless broadcast announcers, whose pleasant voico is known to millions of pcoplo throughout tho world, has inherited £90,000 under tho will of his father, Lord Glcncouner.