TELEVISION PROGRESS BRITAIN WELL IN LEAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 7

TELEVISION PROGRESS

BRITAIN WELL IN LEAD

PROSPECTS OF NATIONAL SERVICE. CRICKET TEST SCENES SHOWN IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless). (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) RUGBY, August 24. Scenes of the cricket Test match at the Oval were shovzn on television sets at the Olympia Exhibition today. Discussing television developments in broadcast, Mr C. G. Graves, Deputy Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, said they could look forward to a national television service. The range of the present transmitter had proved to be greater than was expected. Although a thirty-mile radius was regarded as the service area of the station, many private viewers up to over one hundred miles away were receiving programmes regularly and well. The problem of carrying the programmes to Birmingham or some other important centre, either by cable or by a wireless link, was not an easy one. The corporation at present was eagerly awaiting the result of experiments which the Post Office was to carry out. Mr Graves said that in television, Britain, with its established home service, had a two-year lead on any other country. America and other countries were impressed by what had been done in England in creating a great national industry. ■