TELEVISION TESTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 10

TELEVISION TESTS

.«> PICTURES PROM WGY The British Broadcasting Corporation is not disposed to experiment with television broadcasts at present, but news from America indicates that WGY, tho famous station at Schenectady, has already started. The transmissions are intended primarily for the benefit of radio amateurs constructing their own receiving apparatus, among whom the widest interest was excited by the plans for moving picture broadcasts. According to tlie New York Times a representative of the station said they had received many requests for information on the building of sets, but after a week of television broadcasts no one had reported reception of the moving images. The broadcasts are taking place on a wave-length of 380 metres, and those using ordinary receivers hear howls and squeals'. ' It appears that these television broadcasts arc merely intended to assist in the experimental field, and there are as yet. no. television receivers on the' market for the American public. Senator Marconi, by the way, believes Uha't television will one day be' a practical reality, but he is not himself carrying out any investigations in this direction.