"Wired Wireless" Will Not Oust Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 4

"Wired Wireless" Will Not Oust Radio

THOUGH it is almost certain that the "wired wireless" system of broadcast programme distribution will never supplant the individual radio receiver of the present time, nevertheless the movement in Hngland has an appeal to a certain limited class of user. This appeal is summed up in a reply receritly made by an official of the British General Post Office (which controls the English broadcast service), who stated that, since there appeared to be a number of people in various localities "unable or unwilling to meet the expense of installing and maintaining a complete receiving equipment," the Post Office did not feel justified in withholding a listener’s license from those desiring to use a loudspeaker in conjunction with a wired distribution system from a central receiving station. The wired system is undoubtedly becoming increasingly popular in Bng:land, and some dozen or 80 provincia] towns have given permission to various compfinies to erect wires across the streets in order to serve their subscribers. In one city there is a scheme initiated by the local education com: mittee to install sets in a number of corporation buildings, and to invite adults to attend. The trade, however, is not unduly perturbed by this tendency towards one set serving a large number of lis teners, as it has already been showr ' in practice that many of them: are lec to the purchase of.a receiver so thai they. may not be tied. down to one pro gramme, as is usually the case witl the "wired wireless" system.