Greatest Broadcast in History

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 28, 24 January 1930, Page 6

Greatest Broadcast in History

‘Whole World makes One Audience THE proceedings on Tuesday evening of this week, when the proceedings at the opening of the Naval Conference will be rebroadcast, not only in .New Zealand, but throughout a dozen countries of the world, constitutes an outstanding event in radio history. On this occasion the largest single audience that has ever listened to any one event will be reached. The King will deliver the opening speech, after which the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, will speak. Thereafter the chief delegates of other Powers will speak in alphabetical order, except that Mr. Stimson, representin the United States, will follow Mr. Macdonald. Vv All New Zealand stations will be on the air for this pecaston, and it is’ hoped that reception eonditions will be such as to enable a satisfactory relay to be carried out. According to a British official wireless message, transmitters of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Beam Wireless Service, the Trans-Atlantic Telephone and Continental Telephone Senvices will all be used to carry the Conference proceedings to millions of homes. From the London station of the British Broadcasting Corporation . the speech will reach France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, and Ozecho-Slovakia, relayed by telephone. Belgium and Holland will receive it from the Daventry Broadcasting Station and retransmit it. Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, and the National Broadcasting Company of the United: States will be served by a wireless relay from the 5SW experimental short-wave transmitter at Chelmsford. Canada will employ the Canadian beam transmission. The Columbian chain of broadcasting stations in the United States will use the Rugby TransAtlantic telephone service.