FINAL TESTS MADE
EMPIRE BROADCAST
RECORDING KING’S SPEECH
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(Received Dec. 24, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 23.
Arrangements have been concluded for .recording the King’s Christmas message. Engineers have tested the special lines connecting the Broadcasting Corporation’s studios at St. John’s Wood, where six sets of recording apparatus have been calibrated, and Broadcasting House. The records will he triplicated. The King’s voice will he telephoned from Sandringham to Broadcasting House, and thence to the studios, where the electrical impulse will be amplified 10,0C0,0C0 times, actuating the sapphire needles engraving the wavy lines, three thonsandeths of an inch deep, on the wax recording discs. The records will be sold to the public, after Royal approval, and the profits will be given to some charity nominated by His Majesty.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 6
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