KING'S BROADCAST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 12

KING'S BROADCAST

MESSAGE TO THE EMPIRE BOXING DAY RECEPTION LONDON, Dec. 1 People in New Zealand and Australia, says the Daily Mail, will hear the King's Christmas broadcast between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on/Boxing Day, and there will be / a second transmission between 10.30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the same day. The fact that the message will be heard in the morning, and again in the evening, will b'e made possible by the use, for the first time, in such a "way, of a new tape recording machine, which permits the rebroadcasting at intervals of the recorded pounds.

A recent cablegram stated: —The King will broadcast a Christmas message to the Empire on December 25, which will be •transmitted from the Emp : re station at Daventry. This will be His Majesty's first direct broadcast to his people. Hitherto, only his speeches at official functions have / been wirelessed. Probably the coming broadcast will be made from the I?oval study in Sandringham, where Their Majesties will spend Christmas. A special microphoi/e is being installed. The differences of time in the various parts of {.he world will be overcome by the uSe of a blattnerphone, which will record the words and enable the message to follow the sun so that listeners in every country will receive it at the same hour by tlie clock. Altogether the message will be relayed by about 1000 stations in the Empire alone, and probably also by stations in the United States and South America, j"