A RADIO XMAS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 25, 6 January 1928, Page 3

A RADIO XMAS

SYDNEY TRADI, ENTERPRISE, The suggestion was published in these columns recently that the New Zealand radio traders should ‘‘make this a Radio Christmas." News now comes from Sydney that the official organ of the. radio industry in New South Wales re« ports that special efforts are’ being mad, in the’ radio trade to bring before the public the advantage of radio receiving sets as Christmas and New Year pres sents. ‘The range of values in radio ree ceivers, it is pointed ont, is from a few. shillings, for which a crystal set can be purchased, to £50 or a £100, or evett more, covering the price of the high powered multi-valve type of instrument which brings in not only every broadcasting station in Australia, but several stations in foreign countries as well. ENGLISH CHRISTMAS RELAY. Of late the practice is becoming firmly, established of the Sydney broadcasting stations picking uy and rebroadcastin the stations of England, America, at Isurope, and one of the points which the radio trade is stressing most strongly is that Australian listeners will be able to hear special Cliristmas Lroadcasts from England, ‘The British Broadcasting Corporation has arranged a programme of carols which will be radiated from an Linglish cathedral, picked up in Sydnew, aud rebroadcast on Christmas Eve.