CRICKET TEST TELEVISED

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 142, 26 August 1938, Page 3

CRICKET TEST TELEVISED

WHAT OF THE FUTURE 1 RUGBY, August 24. Scenes at the cricket test at the Oval were shown on television sets at the Radio Olympia exhibition to-day. In discussing television developments in a broadcast, Mr C. G. Graves, deputy-Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, said they could look forward to a national television service. The range of the present transmitter had proved to be greater than expected. Although a 30-mile radius was regarded as the service area of the station, many private viewers up to over 100 miles away were receiving programmes regularly and well. The problem of carrying prow grammes to Birmingham or some other important centre either by cable or wirelessing, he said, was not an easy one. The corporation at present was eagerly awaiting the result of experiments which the Post Office was to carry out. Mr Graves said that, in television, Britain, with its established home service, had a two-year lead on any other country. America and other countries were impressed by what had been done in England in creating a great national industry.