Future of Broadcasting

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 22, 13 December 1929, Page 12

Future of Broadcasting

Speech by England’s Premier AN interesting speech on the future possibilities: and development of radiovision and broadcasting was recently broadcast from Geneva by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister of England. Though radiovision is still but in its experimental stages, the time is not far distant when it will have a definite and important place in the broadcast programmes of the world. After a reference to radiovision and the prospect of hearing and seeing at the same time at one’s fireside Mr. MacDonald said, "It is a great prospect, full of possibilities, and who can foretell the changes in thought aad habit which will follow? ‘The public mind and the public taste will be subjected to an influence of terrific import, but it is part of the joyous effort of progress not only to make the great ‘discoveries -but also to control them and to see that man gets the maximum good and the minimum of evil." This new power of omnipresence should conquer distances and bring the cultures and peoples of the world together and increase their understanding of one another, thus helping in that peacemaking to which all the en- lightened statesmanship of the workd must be directed.