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ONE HOUSE IN EVERY THREE HAS A SET POPULARITY IN ENGLAND RUGBY, Wednesday. The British Broadcasting Corporation announces that wireless licence holders in Britain now number 3,303,000, exclusive of 17,000 licences issued free to blind people. This is estimated to represent a potential audience of 15,000,000 listeners. There is a wireless set in two out of every three houses in the country. In a message to the organisers of the National Radio Exhibition wnich is to be opened tomorrow, the Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, prophesies that, in the future, broadcasting is destined to play a most important part in the cultivation of a friendly understanding between the nations. “The rapid development of this new power over Nature,” says Mr. MacDonald, “gives us great opportunities, both cultural and industrial, and it is all important that we should make the best use of them.”
There will be nearly 400 stands at the exhibition displaying sets and apparatus valued at more than £5,000,000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1081, 19 September 1930, Page 9
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163AGE OF RADIO Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1081, 19 September 1930, Page 9
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