BROADCASTING THE KING'S SPEECH AT T ill NAVAL CONFERENCE
A CORRESPONDENT brings to our notice the extraordinary success achieved in the world-wide broadcast of the King's Speech at the opening of the Naval Conference on Tuesday, January 20th. Besides the usual connexion of the twenty-one British transmitters within the Control Room of the B.B.C. at Savoy Hill, distribution was extended by means of several point-to-point wireless telephone services outside Europe, whose role consisted in doubling the link provided by the B.B.C.'s own experimental short-wave station. Reception was excellent in France, Germany, and Holland, and as far away as Iceland, Latvia, and Jugo-Slavia. Good distribution extended also to the American Continent, where all the Cana- dian stations and the two chief chains in the United States had excellent results. In Japan, a rebroadcast was effected, also in New Zealand, results falling short of expectations only in Australia and South Africa. This event certainly marks an epoch in the history of broadcasting, and makes us realize not only its technical possibilities, but also its great potential value as an aid to civilization in its struggle against both war and ignorance.
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