BROADCASTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 305, 30 December 1935, Page 5

BROADCASTING

THE YEAR REVIEWED NOTABLE ADVANCES [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Dec. 27. A review of the year’s broadcasting by the British Broadcasting Corporation describes the activity in the erection of new transmitting stations and the renovation and re-equipment of studios to secure a maximum of efficiency both in technical results and in the distribution of services over the whole country. These improvements include the extensionn. of the Empire station at Daventry and the adaptation of part of Alexandra Palace. North London, for use as a television transmitting station. The year has seen a steady expansion in the Empire service, constant experimenting having enabled ini provemente to be made in the transmissions so that Empire broadcasts have been better and mor© consistently received. The Empire news bulletins have been increased in number. Notable broadcasts to the Empire include the Jubilee celebrations and Earl Jellicoe’s funeral. The review draws attention to the increase in the use of specially-re-corded material in programmes, notably in illustrating news bulletins. Records are made by mobile recording unitri, and special machinery allows the events or speeches to be cut and edited for later reproduction. A library of historical interest is thus being built up, and the collection now includes the voices of leaders in every sphere of public life. Additions are being made of records from the pre-broadcasting era. Thus records of Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Winston Churchill, made before the war, have been, secured, and efforts are being made to revive records of Gladstone, Salisbury, and Rosebery, made on early phonograph cylinders. It is pointed out that the value of there records to students of history will steadily increase with the passage of time