FIGURES THAT TALK

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 37, 30 March 1928, Page 4

FIGURES THAT TALK

3LO, Melbourne.... 98,000 2FC, Sydney........... 52,000 3AR, Melbourne... 42,000 4 New Zealand stations 35,000 Australian figures are for the twelve months ending June last; New Zealand, the approximate sum ending December 31 last. Much newspaper talk in New Zealand has centred round £50,000 and £60,000 as being New Zealand’s figures. The facts are very different, for these critics ignored the fact that licenses grew late in the year and revenue only pro rata. Service depends on finance and the best service to breadcasting can be rendered by appreciating fact and not expanding and spreading fiction,