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ARCHIVES No 39

· 2 JUL#68

CR 4/2/44

Dear Eaton,

21st June 1968

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Rediffusion Limited

Further to our recent telephone exchanges, I give below some particulars on the British company, Rediffusion Limited, and on one of its subsidiaries, Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Rediffusion Limited,

Address: Carlton House, Lower Regent Street, S.W.1.

Chairman:

Deputy Chairman:

Managing Director:

Other Directors:

John Spencer Wills

Lord Tangley

P. Adorian

R. P. Beddow, Sir Patrick Bishop, T. A. Cross, Group Captain H. S. L. Dundas, M. Exwood, Earl of Swinton, Lord Wakefield of Kendal.

Registered as a private company in 1928; converted into public 1933. Name changed from Broadcast Relay Ltd. in 1957.

A holding company of a group of companies that relay sound and vision broadcast programmes by wire, at home and overseas, together with operating overseas broadcast stations and manufacturing television receivers.

Rediffusion services are operated, through subsidiaries, in more than 190 local authority areas in the U.K., whilst overseas, local subsidiaries are: Barbados, Canada, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Jersey, Malaya, Malta, Nigeria, Singapore and Trinidad. Hong Kong provides a television service by wire.

Capital: £20,000,000.

46% of the ordinary capital is owned by British Electric Traction Co.Ltd.

Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Address:

Rediffusion House, Gloucester Road, Hong Kong. Box 121.

C. E. C. Eaton Esq.,

Commonwealth Office,

Cultural Relations Department,

4, Central Buildings,

Matthew Parker Street,

S.W.1.

/Chairman:

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