TELEVISION TRIAL
PROGRAMME TRANSMITTED COMPLETE SUCCESS CLAIMED LONDON, Aug. 23 Several hundred owners of televisors ■uccessfnlly received the British Broadcasting Corporation's first official television transmission by tho Baird process last evening. The programme opened with Mr. J. L. Baird's televised portrait, which was followed by variety entertainment, in which singers, dancers and a conjuror were all clearly heard and seen, says the NewsChronicle. Tho director of programmes said that, although television was still in its infancy, it l/ad such potentialities that the corporation had entered into a two years' agreement with the Baird Company. The corporation accepted full responsibility for the radiation of regular halfhour television programmes four times a week. A fillip to the manufacture of televisors is certain, as hitherto the manufacturers hesitated to deal with apparatus-because tha corporation would not officially guarantee to continue the transmissions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21277, 2 September 1932, Page 12
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