TELEVISION WOULD BE COSTLY
A LICENCE fee of £150 would be necessary to cover the cost of tele. vision if the population of Sydney or Melbourne took out viewers’ licences in the same proportion as the people of Great Britain. This warning on the high cost of television was given by S. H. Witt, chief research officer of the Post-master-General’s Department, in evidence before the Commonwealth Parliamentary Standing Committee on broadcasting. Mr. Witt said it would be unwise to introduce television into Australia until colour television had been perfected. The success of colour television demonstrations given in America last year had altered the opinion of many experts, who had predicted that colour television would not come for five years. The colour technique should be very well advanced within two years. Mr. Witt said that the expense of in troducing television would be great. The publicity given to television in the United Kingdom was misleading. Millions of pounds had been spent in publicising it, but sales of receiving sets had always fallen off markedly when the advertising slackened.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 369, 19 July 1946, Page 23
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177TELEVISION WOULD BE COSTLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 369, 19 July 1946, Page 23
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