Broadcasting 68,000 Hours at £7 an Hour
About 2,400.000 Listen in Britain REPORT OF THE 8.8. C. British Official Wireless Reed. 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Saturday. The first annual report of the British Broadcasting Corporation says the cost of wireless programmes in 1927 was about £7 an hour. There were more than 65,000 hours of transmission from all stations, music occupying about two-thirds of the programmes. The year’s income of the corporation was over £900,000, of which over £BOO,OOO came from licences, and the total expenditure was £770,000. The licences number about 2,400,000 and show an increase during the year of over 200,000. Lessons by wireless are growing in favour in the schools, 4,000 of which are known to listen to London and Daventry. Referring to the experimental work, the report states that although undue expectations of Empire broadcasting for the near future are to be discouraged, there is little doubt that the prospects are encouraging.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 9
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155Broadcasting 68,000 Hours at £7 an Hour Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 9
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