STATION FOR WALES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 26, 13 January 1928, Page 16

STATION FOR WALES

B.B.C.’s LATHST PLAN. The London ‘Wireless Iixport Trader" states: ‘It is interesting to note that under the new British Broadcasting Corporation’s regional scheme it has been definitely decided to allocate one station to a Welsh site to serve the whole of Wales and the South-west of England. "This station, we understand, will offer two alternative programmes to ervsta] set owners in the whole of thie Welsh area, while a considerable part of one of the broadcasts will be devoted to Welsh items, "In this connection? it may interest some of our readers to learn that in Wales (according to cetisns), 929,183 people speak Welsh, and’ 1,477,741 speak only English, ‘The majority of Welsh speakers use both languages The suggestion is that a Welsh alternative programme would increase and preserve the use of that language by the ‘man in the street’ of Walesa." |