DEVELOPMENT OF TELEVISION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 14

DEVELOPMENT OF TELEVISION

NEW SERVICE IN GERMANY RADIO AS HITLER'S SERVANT LONDON, August 7. The introduction of a high deflniti«« television service on 441 lines from three transmitters was announced by Dr. Goebbels. the Minister for Propaganda, at the opening of the Radio Exhibition in Berlin, states "The Times-" The service will open on October 1. Dr. Goebbels said that more than 700,000 of the new 35s radio receiver* would be manufactured and offered for sale during 1938. He also announced that needy and deserving persons not eligible for free licences would b« given a special licence at a 50 per cent, reduction—one mark a month instead of two. Dr. Goebbels then emphasised the political importance ot the radio and reiterated that Germany must make herself foremost in radio development. I Since January 30, 1933, he said, the radio had been a true servant of the Fuhrer's policy. In countless happy and anxious hours it had stood by hinri. It had, indeed, been his speakingtube to the people. Across the ether waves his voice had addressed the whole nation. In his hand it had become a people-leading instrument at the first order. The most important condition for the radio's striking power was that in no transmission should it address isolated class or national groups. The radio belonged to the nation and must, therefore, addre#s the nation in its totality. Television pictures on a large-screen receiver at the exhibition were surprisingly good and showed a marked advance over last year. The sire ot the screen was roughly 10ft by 12ft, and it was possible for about 1000 people standing to watch the demonstration. The new German television receivers, which are to cost in the neighbourhood of 800 marks, have most of them been produced in models which can stand on a table. One will be even cheaper. It provides television only, and makes use of the existing broadcast receivers to supply the : accompanying sound.