World Wireless

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 18, 15 November 1929, Page 8

World Wireless

BIG step forward will be taken in the history of broadcasting in Oanada this winter by the completion of. arrangements: now being made by the Canadian National Railways for the regular relaying of weekly programmes from the Atlantic to Pacific coast-a distance of 3500 miles, To make this possible, the company will use 15,000 miles of telegraph and telephone wires and will link sixteen broadcasting stations, thirteen of which, as the largest single broadcasting organisation in Canada, it owns or operates direct. This technical achievement will be accompanied by an equally notable advancein the programmes. Arrangements haye been completed for the Dominionwide broadcasting of a series of tweutyfive symphony concerts. "THE Prime Minister of England’s speech from Geneva recently entailed d use of 2000 miles of land line -the longest cable link ever used in a B.B.C. transmission: Forty repeater stations were involved in this relay. From Switzerland the speech was relayed to Berlin and thence to Brussels, and from there, via the Post Office line, to the La Panne-Thanet cable across to Pngiland. Although partially marred by: extraneous noises, Mr. MacDonald’s address is reported to have been heard at times with astonishing clarity. That this was due, as one newspaper put it, to the fact that "the overruling voice of the Premier triumphed over the handicap of the forces of nature" is hardly fair to the engineers.