New Organisation for the B.B.C. Studios

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 23, 21 December 1928, Page 15

New Organisation for the B.B.C. Studios

REAT advance has been made during the past year or two in ensuring the smooth working of broadcasting, and the B.B.C. has just put into operation a scheme which is calculated to cause the great machine to work still more smoothly. _ This takes the form of the appointment of an official who will act as a sort of central announcer. He will sit in a room which will be in communication with all the studios and the engineers’ control department, and with a knowledge of what is going on everywhere he will issue swift instructions which will prevent gaps, or any of the numerous other accidents that are liable to happen in the course of an evening’s broadcasting.

In the past the announcers. -eave the scenes, so to speak, in addition to actual announcing. An orchestral programme may be occupying . too much time, or a dramatic item too little, or again, there may be queries from provincial stations whose programmes are liable to be upset by a slight time variation at 2L0. In future the central announcer (to give him a merely temporary name) -will keep a constant watch on all these details, and thus ensure that the time schedule is strictly adhered ‘to. '-. He has various means of making the quick alterations necessary. He always has an accompanist at hand ready to be moved into any studio. to fill a gap, or he can "out" items out ‘if there is no time for them. had to do a good deal of work behind