AMAZING STATION EFFICIENCY
From the engineering point of view the year 1920 is considered by the British Broadcasting Company to have established a record upon which it would be difficult to improve. During the. year, according to figures which have now been compiled, the average breakdown per station was no more than .07 per cent. The total of programmes for the year from the 21 stations Avas 65,869 hours, giving an average for each station of 59 hours a week. Daventry had the highest figures of programme time—namely, 4296 hours for the year, or an average of SI hours a week. The breakdown period for the whole year was only .09 per cent. The total programme time of 2LO, London, during 1926 was i>472 hours, or 65 i hours a week. The period of breakdown was .22 per cent, for the year. On the basis of the figures for other stations in Great Britain it has been calculated that in an average year's transmission of 3000 hours from each station the breakdown period during the year represents an actual period of no more than 18 minutes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 12 May 1927, Page 3
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186AMAZING STATION EFFICIENCY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 12 May 1927, Page 3
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