MILLIONS OF LISTENERS
BRITISH BROADCASTING WIRELESS SETS GROWING A NATIONAL EXHIBITION OFFICIAL BENEDICTION British Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 17. The British Broadcasting Corporation announces that wireless license holders now number 336,300, exclusive of 17,000 licenses issued free to blind people. This is estimated to represent a potential audience of 15.000.000 listeners. There are now wireless sets in two out of every three -houses in the country. In a message to the organisers of the National Radio Exhibition, which opens to-morrow, the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay,MacDonald prophesies: “In future broadcasting is destined to play a most important part in the cultivation of friendly understanding between nations. The rapid development of this new power over nature 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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Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1930, Page 7
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