Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 25, 30 December 1932, Page 20

Radio Round the World

THE names of the six announcers of the B.B.C., formerly kepf secret by the authorities, were revealed by an English newspaper recently, They are all distinguished university men, live having graduated from Oxford, ant sixth, the chief announcer, from © bridge, ° "THE Electrical and Radio Development Association in New South Wales has decided to hold an exhibition in the Sydney Town Hall during the ten days between March 22 and April 7, 1933. Considerable space’ has been already booked, and it is thought that the Postmaster-General’s Department will take the whole of the base: J ment, HE governors of the B.B.C, have agreed to permit regular political broadcasts, The decision means that one of the strictest bans is to be lifted, and politicians of standing will be allowed to broadcast their political views. The B.B.C. intends to exercise particular care in presenting a "‘balance" in broadcasts on controversial subjects. HIRTY-ONE years ago, on the twelfth day of December to be precise, the first wireless signals were received across the breadth of the Atlantic Ocean. Over a year later, on December 22, 1902, the first wireless communication was transmitted across the Atlantic, by Senator Marconi to King Edward at Buckingham Palace, and read:-‘On occasion of first wireless telegraphic communication across Atlantic Ocean may I be permitte¢{o present, by means of this wireless usessage transmitted from Oanada to England, my respectful homage to his Majesty the King." T the end of November, 1922, 18,000 licenses had been taken out in Great Britain, By the end of November, 1932, the number had risen to nearly 5,000,000, The first B.B.C. office consisted of half a dozen rooms and a single studio, which could not contain an orchestra of twelve with-' out the doors were left open. In 19827 headquarters contains 22 studios, one of which can accommodate a symphony orchestra and an audience of nearly six hundred, Such graphic contrasts depict better than words the success of the first ten years of British broadcasting. —