DAVENTRY BROADCASTS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 2

DAVENTRY BROADCASTS

CHANGES IN TRANSMISSION It is announced from Daventry that big changes in the system of transmissions in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s overseas service will be made at the end of this month. Hitherto the company’s 21 \-hour daily overseas broadcasts has been split into six sections, each directed to a separate “time band” round the world. Thus Transmission 1 is directed to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, with an additional Transmitter for Western Canada. Transmission II serves Australia. Malaya, the Far East and India. So the transmissions progress in direction round the world till the sixth, which is directed to North and South America and closes shortly before Transmission 1 of the next day is due to sign on. These six transmissions often necessitate special items being repeated for each time band. From the end of this month, it is now announced. the 2 H-hour spread of transmission will be divided into three sessions, each intended for a separate world “zone” which the announcer referred to as the Pacific. Central, and American. Details of the times of the zonal transmissions, it was stated, will shortly be an(nounced. It is probable therefore that the

service, so far as it affect,, the Dominion, will be consid rably improved. Transmission T at present only lasts three hours whereas the zonal transmission '* ill, it can be assumed, last for ab ,ui one-third of the daily Daventry schedule, i.e., about seven hours