RADIO STATIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 9

RADIO STATIONS.

STANDARDISING WAVE LENGTHS By Cable —Prcs3 Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. LONDUN, April 2. A cr&p of conjecture, including tho possibility of closing several British broadcasting stations, lias arisen irom the report of a conference representing twenty broadcasting organisations, including the British. The conference recommends a new scheme of wave lengths, under which certain lengths will ’ho allocated to existing. and projected broadcasting stations belonging to the international union. Tho report declares that to ensure good resu.ts- it is absolutely necessary that wave lengths should be standardised by a wave meter common to all countries and every station must adhere rigidly to its allocated wave length.

Tho report lias not yet reached tho Post Office, which was not represented at tho conference, except by the British Broadcasting Company, which is purely a private concern, operating under a Post Office license.

Britain may or may not accept the whole or part of the recommendations, but in any case nothing can be done until the Government was considered tho parliamentary committee's report, commending tho suppression of the jiresent broadcasting company by a semi-official, jion-jn’pfit earning commission analogous to the Port of London Authority, of which tho Post Master General would bo tho Ministerial head. The conference recommended that certain stations should have exclusive wave lengths, capable of guaranteeing a good reception at long ranges, but tho Post Office is not prepared to consider tin's until the new Cum mission has been determined. « Meanwhile no Itntisb station is being cut out, nor is Australia or New Zealand even remotely affected.