ROLE OF RADIO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 8

ROLE OF RADIO

POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT

(Air Mail) SYDNEY, Dec. 17

New radio devices would enable post-war commercial plane traffic to be controlled as effectively as road and railway traffic was to-day, said Sir Ernest Fisk; chairman of Amalgamated Wireless of Australia, who returned recently from a five months’ tour of Britain and the United States. Developments in radio had been intensified by wartime activities, he said. “ Scientfic knowledge of radio television lias advanced greatly, and I believe the only big problem in establishing television services is the cost of programmes,” he added. “This problem will be solved either in the United States or Great Britain, or in both. The problem of extending the range of television can also be overcome. After the war it will be possible, by considerable expenditure, to give television programmes ' simultaneously in Sydney, Melbourne. Adelaide, Brisbane, and, at a later date. Perth. Widespread television services are unlikely to be available, however, sooner than five years after the war is ended.”

Important developments in radio telegraph and telephone services could also be expected after the war. If modern scientific and engineering developments were fully used it should be possible after the war to communicate easily by telephone with any part of the Empire.