NEWS BY WIRELESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20060, 29 March 1927, Page 7

NEWS BY WIRELESS

PRESS RADIO EXPERIMENTS. (From Odb Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, March 18. The time appears to be quickly ap preaching when the principal country newspapers of Now South Wales wi., receiving tho greater part of their metropolitan news by radio instead of by tele graph. A committee of the Country Press Association is now considering definite proposals fur the establishment of a stotion in Sydney. One of tho suggestions beirm investigated is that a new broad casting station should be established exclusively for the use of the press; another is that one of the four stations now in existence in Sydney should be engaged for specific hours each day. Receiving apparatus will have to be installed in either case, and the question has yet to be decided whether press matter should be sent by radio telephony or by radio telegraphy. Radio telephony, while it has an advantage, m that any good shorthand writer could take the messages, has the disadvantage that a speaker might at times be difficult to follow, especially when quot in" figures or prices. Radio telegraphy, on° the other hand, would necessitate an operator at tho receiving end One p.posal, however, which is being investigated by the country press provides for the use of a tape-recording machine, which would have the advantage of being a permanent record. It is probable that the new system of disseminating news throughout the country will be one of gradual development, and that, for a start, a dozen or so of the big papers will t a ke tbcir news by radio. It is believed that tho cost will be much below tho ordinary telegraphic rates. This is apart from the time which will be saved, ihe scheme, when it is fully developed, will make the country largely independent of the metropolitan press.