8.8. C. FIGURES.
Licenses Again Show Increase. MORE THAN 6.000.000 LISTENERS. British Official Wireless. (Received February 17. 12.40 p.m.) RUGBY. February 16. The annual report of the British Broadcasting Corporation discloses that the number of receiving licenses increased during last year from 5.262.953 to 5,973,759. Since the end of the year there has been a further increase and the total now far exceeds 6,000,000. The gross. amount paid by the public in , respect of licenses last year was j £2,968,000. Of this £1,460,352 was paid to the corporation. The corporation devoted £786,1345 to the provision of programmes, this being an increase of £122.921 compared with 1932. The corporation’s emergency contribution to the Treasury amounted to £225,000.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20233, 17 February 1934, Page 1
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