RADIO LICENCES
INCREASE IN BRITAIN TOTAL EXCEEDS 6,000,000 British Wireless RUGBY, Feb. 16 The annual report of the British Broadcasting Corporation discloses that the number of receiving licences increased last year from 5.262,953 to 5,973,759. Since the end of the year there has been a further increase, and the total now far exceeds 6,000,000. The gross amount paid by the public in respect of licences last year was £2,968,000. Of this £1,460,352 was paid to the corporation, which' devoted £786.345 to the provision of programmes. This was an increase of £122,921 compared with 1932. The corporation's emergency contribution to the Treasury amounted to £225,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21729, 19 February 1934, Page 9
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104RADIO LICENCES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21729, 19 February 1934, Page 9
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