RADIO RECEPTION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 445, 29 May 1937, Page 5

RADIO RECEPTION

Effect Of Multiplicity Of Australian Stations Press Association—Copyright. Hastings, May 29. Serious interference ■with the reception of New Zealand radio stations by Australian stations broadcasting on the same wavelength was commented upon to-day by a. Hawke’s Bay radio authority, who'said that a mouth ago 97 Australian stations were on the air, and the rate of increase was about four a month. "There is very little restraint on the opening of either advertising or r.on-commercial radio stations in Australia,” he said, “and this has 1 led to the opening of a large number mainly in New South Wales and Victoria. Advertising stations are actually driving one another out of business. “A large number of stations means the complete covering of the broadcast dial with stations, many having power equal to or greater than llhat of ma/y New Zealand stations. These cause distortion of programmes, and are rapidly becoming a menace to good reception in the Dominion. “Many New Zealand: stations are badly heleorodyned by Australians, and in a few cases by Americans,” he concluded, "and there seems no prospect of outside restrictions alleviating the position.”