EMPIRE BROADCASTS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 52, 13 July 1928, Page 3

EMPIRE BROADCASTS

| DIFFICULTY IN RECEPTION A QUESTION asked recently in the British Wouse of Commons dealt with the establishment of a broadcasting service for receiving at moderate cost in such places as West Africa) and East and Central African Colonies, where thousanils of British citi-. zens were in remote and lonely sta-. tions and where a broadcasting ser-. vice would be a great boon to them. | The reply given was that the difficulty in providing such a service lay not. in the transmission but the reception. | The British Broadcasting Corporation had been conducting daily transmissions from its short-wave station, 5SW, ever since December 12 last, and from time to time programmes had been heard in Africa and elsewhere, | The British Broadcasting Corporation, however, had stated that prolonged experiments under varying conditions were necessary before a definite receiying set policy could be evolved. It was suggested that the Government could give help in the matter, and Cvulonial Governments were co-operat-ing by forwarding reports on local reception..*