THE CRICKET BROADCAST.

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 4, 7 August 1931, Page 4

THE CRICKET BROADCAST.

WLISTENERS were given an interesting experience this week through the enterprising action of arranging for a commentary *&pon each day’s’ play of the Test Match between England .and New Zealand to be sent from London by radio telephone, and "picked up by 2YA and broadcast throughout New Zealand. ° The conception was wholly commendable, and on the second and third days ‘a’ highly gratifying degree of success was achieved. For the first P day conditions were bad, and the experiment had almost to be written "off-as a total failure. For the second day a greater degree of success was achieved, and on the third day listeners received quite a brilliant ‘account of the play, having regard to all the circumstances. " "In that this was the first occasion on which the attempt was made "toy broadcast radio telephony from London, the experience was ‘historic and interesting. Thousands of listeners undoubtedly welcomed ‘the novelty, more especially as they could see in it an indication of interesting developments in the future. This method of telephonic communication, with its greater degree of technical efficiency, will doubtless be used in future for historic broadcasts of the nature of the King’s Address at the opening of the Naval Conference, Armistice Day Celebrations, and so forth. Distance is steadily being bridged, and the future undoubtedly holds the certainty of the simultaneous addressing of an audience numbered in millions where now we think -only of thousands.