EMPIRE BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20202, 13 September 1927, Page 9

EMPIRE BROADCASTING

MR MARCUSE'S EXPERIMENT. AN UNFORTUNATE START. (Preps Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 11. Fifty Australians, disregarding breakfast, sat in the Columbia gramophone •studio watching t> ; microphone and wondering whether Mr Marcuse’s first Empire broadcast was reaching Australia; then came a breakdown. A condenser suddenly failed, causing the generator to blow out, and the plant, which bad hitherto stood the severest tests, was mute for fit) minutes. It was something of an achievement for Mr Marcuse and his two assistants to rig an emergency supply from the public mains, hut it necessitated the cutting down of the programme by half. As all the items were picked up by valve sets in the South of England, there are strong hopes that most of them got through. Mr Marcuse is undismayed. He says that he will continue pioneering, and is sanguine of ultimate success. —A. and N.Z. Cable, THE DUCHESS OP YORK. SPEECH TO BE BROADCAST. LONDON, September 11. The Duchess of York's first broadcast will bo made from Glasgow at 11.30 ou the morning of September 21, wdicn she receives the freedom of the city.—A. and N.Z. Cable.