“LISTENING IN.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16908, 6 December 1922, Page 6

“LISTENING IN.”

WIRELESS EROADCASTING. MAY NOT LAST LONG. (Per Press Association.) "WELLINGTON, December 6. About eight hundred permits for 1 ‘ listening in ’ were issued to amateurs of wireless, and another three or four hundred are under consideration. Some twenty licenses lor sending were issued, but the regulations under the Act have not yet been ga zetted. One official expressed the opinion that broadcasting would only have a very short run, as a knowledge of the Morse system was required to pick up the news, and people would soon get tired of hearing gramophone records by wireless. It may be mentioned that a recent attempt here to give a public concert was a dismal and hopeless failure. In England they have been talking of broadcasting for many months, but up to the latest mail advices absolutely nothing had been done, and inquiries made of a British wireless broadcasting company received tho reply that it was impossible to say when a start would he made. The manager of a leading Sydney paper, who recentlv made extensive inquiries in England, is also of the opinion that the expected boom will come to nothing.