Empire Broadcasting The British Broadcasting Corporation is about to establish
an Empire service, operating night and day, and capable of transmitting its programmes to the ends of the earth. Powerful American and Russian stations can be heard in the remotest parts of the Empire. It is clearly desirable that a British programme should be equally available to listeners all the world over, in India and China as well as in the Dominions and Colonies. We understand that, by an ingenious device, speeches and other items once transmitted can be, so to say, stored up and repeated a few hours later. Thus the programme sent to Australia while South Africans or Canadians are asleep can be repeated for their benefit when they wake up. The difficulty of adjusting a programme to the different times of Sydney, Delhi, Capetown, Ottawa and Vancouver, and other Imperial centres, can thus be overcome. * * * *
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