RADIO PROGRESS
BRITISH BROADCASTING
PRIME MINISTER'S PROPHECY
British Official Wroless. RUGBY, 17th September.
The British Broadcasting Corporation announces that wireless licenceholders now number 3,363,000, exclusive of 17,000 licences issued free to blind people. This is estimated to represent a potential audience of 15,000,000 listeners. There is now a wireleßS set ,in two out of every three houses in the country. In a message to organisers of the National Kadio Exhibition, which opens to-morrow, the Prime Minister prophesies: "In future broadcasting .is destined to play a most important part in the cultivation of a friendly understanding between nations. The rapid development of this new power over Nature gives us great opportunities, both cultural and industrial, and it is all-important that we should make the best use of them."
There will be nearly 400 stands at the exhibition, displaying sets and apparatus valuod at more than £5,000,000.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19300919.2.54
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 70, 19 September 1930, Page 9
Word Count
145RADIO PROGRESS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 70, 19 September 1930, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in