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RADIO TOPICS

A NEW BOON.

THE RELAYING OF FOREIGN PROGRAMMES..

LATEST ENTERPRISE. RADIO CHARTER.

A WIRELESS SERVICE TO PORTUGAL.

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A STORM OF CRITICISM RAISED.

A storm of criticism is raging round the terms embodied in the Royal Charter for the Broadcasting Corporation.

British

There were 2,000,000 odd licensed October. Under the old scheme, of laterers In England at the end of 1,000,000, the B.B.C.. was allowed only 2500,000.

The excellant reception of the A direct high-speed wireless tele- relay from Hilversum, through graph service between England and British Broadcasting Company Portugal was opened in mail wook

und there was an exchange of .com stationa when a programme of dance music was specially trans-plimentary messages between the mitted from the big Dutch station Portuguese Ambassador in London and the Rresident of Portugal, the for the benefit. of British listeners,

Portuguese Ambassador and the raises several interesting pointa, Portuguese Foreign Minister, in The Dutch announcer paid, Britain. the graceful compliment of speak Commerce and the President of the Lisbon, the Portuguese Minister of ing in English and between two of British of Trade, and also between the items observed that it was a

the Association of British Chambers pleasure to be able to do something of Commerce, the London Chamber for Britlah listeners in return for the many splendid programmestions in Portugal, Senatore Marconi venue, handing over to the B.B.C. which lateners of Holland had und Mr. Kellaway (chairman £398,750. heard from the British Broadcast- and managing director öf Marconi's On the second milion licences ing Company. Hilversum quite Wireless Telegraph Company the Postmaster-General will stil} frequently relays "Daventry, and Ltd.), and Dr. Conteno (chairman take $62,500; and la addition for direct reception also, it

revenue, of the Portuguese Marcon Com-287,500 for

leaving stated. Durch listeners rely almost pany).

2369,000 for the Broadcasting Cor-. as much on Daventry as they do on their own stations.

Under the new Charter, on the first million licences, yielding. £500,000, the Postmaster-General will retain 262.500 for administra- af Commerce and similar organisa- tive expenses, and £43,750 for _res

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Representative Opinions. A number of representative have expressed their people of opinions. The following is a selec-

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The new service is the first of aroration. number of wireless telegraph ser- Thus, in place of £500,000, under I was informed at, Savey-hill that vices which are being established the naw scheme 2743,750 will be there are no immediate plans for by the Portuguese Marcon Com-available for Broadcasting pur future foreign relays, and there ispany under a forty years concession poses. The Government will re- no intention of making this a fre- granted by the Portuguese Govern-ceive £256.250, or, after the dedüc- quent feature of our programmes.ment to Marcons Wireless Tele- tion of £125,000 for expenses a clear

Angraph Company Ltd, to undertake profit of $£131;250. says a Home paper writer. ofcial stated that the British: the organisation of a complete wire- Broadcasting Company preferred less telegraph and telephone sys- wireless to maintain a high standard in tem to place, Portugal in their own programmes rather than communication with her colonies to send out a great number of and the principal capitals unsatisfactory or medidere foreign Europe, South America, and other tion: relays. Many, listeners will regret the "eu" in relays, from overacas,. as these re-transmissions certainly add novelty to the programmes, for the innumerable owners of vion sets who cannot reach out on the own necount! It is true that the modern tentency is in the direction of more selective sets, but even people who can regularly tour the ether of the "Continent would ind interest in special English

pro-

countries.

There board:

Sir Arthur Stanley: The Wireless stations are being bus Post Office ought not to take under this. concession near Lisbon, the surplus, but should either hand in Cape Verde Islands, Madaiya it back to the B.B:C. for develop. the Azores.. Mozambique.. andment work or else reduce the cost. Angela. One of the group of the Hcences. To raid the fund transmitting stations to

be is the name as raiding the Road erected at Afragide, Bear Fund-taking money for a purpose. Lisbon, and one of the correspond-not originally intended. After all ing receiving stations at Vendas the listener is the first person who Novas will work at high speed with should be considered. the Marconi stations at Ongar and

Mr. Hore-Relisha, M.P.: Brentwood, near London, and with

en the is nobody from foreign

the principal capitals of Europe;. Geneva, moreover his advocated another station wü communicate who understands the entertainment It is a great pity, for the use of broadcasting to promote with the Portuguese islandy

and industry, internatione good will, and there with ships at Ben; and Marconi broadensting obviously must be run fa no doubt that a regular pinter-short-wave beam stations are also by people who understand the art change of programmes with foreign being built for communication with of entertaining and not only the iccuntries would have a good effect Brazil and other parts of South art of business.

The America. and in this direction.

the

Professor A. M." Low: Portuguese

of money for the colonies at Mozamique and Angola,parseness where, of course, similar beam sta-new B.B.C. is not going to help. radio. A new science like this re- ons are being constructed.

quires ample funds for expansion,

evelopment. and research.

grammes

sources.

PURE MUSIC BY WIRELESS.

We are all familiar with loud speaker reproduction of wireless. music, but in how many cases can. it be truthfully said that it sounds as if the actual singer or orchestra were in the same room?

new

The money paid by the listeners should be used for the listeners benefit.

The reception from Hilversum was so good that one might have imagined that the music was coming from the Savoy, though towards the end of the half-hour's re-trans- mission morse interference became. very troublesome. This unwanted weather report in dots and dashes

It is much easier to tune into the reminded me that the Washington Radio Conference next year will

bigger Continental broadcasting. probably consider a proposition to

stations than the British stations. enforce the substitution of spark

In the case, of a national emergency transmitters on ships and "shore. With the introduction of the new we might have the Continental stations by continuous wave ap- Foint One series of valves, made by stations shouting us down, so that, paratus. in order to eliminate as Messrs. 4. C. Cosser, Ltd., broad-Instead of listening to Mr. Baldwin, much as possible of the existing cast reception enters a new phase. we should be compelled to listen morse interference with broadcast-agdal Mounting, A new method Stalin or Trotzky. ping. One estimate of the total cost of construction evolved by Coswor of effecting this change on the mer and employed for the first time in cantile marine of the world ia these valves, at last permite £20,000,000, and it seems extremely standard of reproduction compara improbable that any such sweeping ble only to the Alosh and alteration. will be made for some blood. Artists years to come.

BROADCASTING.

RAIDING RADIO PIRATES AT HOME..

An Official of the Radio Society: There are too many mere bust-

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927.

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NEW WIRELESS STATION.

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

Strasbourg is to have a powerful broadcasting station as the result of the action of a group of Alsatian Patriots Interested in replying to the Germany who have just 'strengthened their propaganda station at Freiburg-im-Breisgau..

Successful use is being made by motorvan ness people engaged in the B.B.C. the Post Office of a paid to the real entertainment of finding apparatus for the detection and. too little attention is being equipped with wireless direction-

The arts ought to of unlicensed transmitters. themselves. Itthe listeners,

Is difficult to believe one's ears.be fully represented so, that all in- Every tone and subtle variation interests will be catered for.

There ought to be someone," too, the singer's voice la repeated with uncanny accuracy. The very indi-to represent the radio manufac turers, so that there could be a full viduality which has made her а

measure of co-ordination and co- great artlate is minutely repro- Coced. Not only does the Cossur operation between the broadcasting valve excel when reproducing the and reception. human voice, but it is equally at home with a full orchestra, repro- ducing the light and shade with a

faithfulness. remarkable

Music lovers have been quick to realise the advantages of this new valve, A taw and although it is only months since it was introduced to the public, it has already achieved A most remarkable popularity.

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The "war" against radio pirates, those people who listen-in without n Post Office licence, which, as indicated recently, is about to be launched by the Post Office, will probably coincide with the change over in the New Year to the new Government regime of broadcast Ing. said a "Daily Telegraph" writer in mall week. Post Offee officials who are organising this campaign are naturally reluctant to Among those who signed a com- revent details of the methode that plaint about "oscillation" will be employed? Up to the pre-Arthur Frank Harrison. a wireless sent there have been about 500 apparatus doaler, of Cavendish convictions of, unlicensed listeners, drive, Laytonstone, As a result and it in stated that each prosecu- his house wiâ visited. and it WEB tion is followed by a large number found that he was using a wireless of applications for licences. I asked set without a leente. "A bit of a British Broadcasting Company check, having a set working illegally official whether any idea had been and complaining of people interfer- formed as to the number of un- Ing with it. Pay £2, said the licensed listeners in the country, chairman of the Stratford Bench. and he informed me that, while there was obviously no means of accurately eatimating the num-

WHOOPING COUGH. *I/HOOPING "cough is hard on the ber, he imagined It might child and hard on the parents: be somewhere in the neighbourhood Control the dreadful whooping and of half a million. The Post Office coughing with Chamberlain's Cough offelals concerned in the new plans 'Remedy. It induces quiet sleep but have plenty of Information at their contains no narcotics or other harm- disposal to enable them to track;] fül substances. Sold and recommended down offendera,

TO-NIGHT IS THE

NIGHT IM TO BROAD- CAST.MY SPEECH AN TELLTHE PUBLIC WHY I SHOULD BE ELECTED ALDERMAN!!

I'M JUST CRAZY TOHEAR HIS VOICE

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overywhere.

Sir Oswald Stoll: The Broadcast Charter is a res- triction upea broadcasting, not a natural development of it. It looks very like a political move to under- nine the freedom of the press by unfair competition with the nows- papers."

WHERE BRITAIN EXCELS.

An American journal confeases that the B.B.C. has brought simul- taneous broadcast to a fine art and that no country' can hope to catch up to, much less to compete with, Britain in this respect. The neces- aarily erude arrangement originally adopted has been considerably per- fected; and, by a system of relays," all the processes can now be aupervised by one person. LIB teners may have noted the speed with which every station is linked up with one centre after,. perhaps, having taken a programme from some other station hundreds of miles away. It is seldom that any hitch occurs, which speaks volumes for the skill and foresight of the B.B.C. engineers and their Post Office "conspirators."

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