PORTER'S BRAIN WAVE
S.O.S. WIRELESS CALLS The nightly (generally twicenightly) S.O.S. from the British Broadcasting Company’s station has become a commonplace incident in the development of broadcasting. Nearly 800 such appeals, or over two a night, were issued from Savoy Hill last year. They were nearly all for sons and daughters whom mothers and fathers wished to see before they died. They were sent out in some cases in French, in German, in Italian; to ships at sea; to countries as remote as Iceland, and in one instance, to a man who was at the time tramping the country from one casual ward to another in search of work. In nearly 50 per cent, of the cases the appeal reached the person for whom it was intended. Broadcasting appeals began in 1923 quite accidentally. A London hotel porter wanted to get into touch with a relative, and, unable to communicate in any other way, approached the 8.8. C. His appeal was sent out and it was successful.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 684, 8 June 1929, Page 19
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167PORTER'S BRAIN WAVE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 684, 8 June 1929, Page 19
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