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12/19/33
FOUR NEW STATIONS FOR AUSTRALIA
That Australia is essentially "radio-minded” is revealed in a report to the Commerce Department from Assistant Trade Com¬ missioner Wilson C. Flake, Sydney.
Since the beginning of the present year, the report shows, the number of radio sets in the Commonwealth increased by 20 per cent. The total number reported at the end of September was 500,341, one set for every 13 persons. This figure would indicate that Australia now ranks sixth among the countries of the v;orld in the number of radio listeners.
This increase in the number of receiving sets has added a substantial amount to the revenue collected as license fees by the Government, a part of which will be returned to listeners in the form of increased and improved broadcasting facilities.
The Government has just awarded a contract for the erec¬ tion of four new broadcasting stations, and at the same time announced plans for three additional stations. This will bring the total number of Class A stations to 19, and will provide dependable service to sections of the country, which are now reported experiencing some difficulty in receiving programs from the existing stations.
Owing to the high tariff on radio sets and parts, Mr. Flake points out, Australia manufacturers are now supplying practically all the increased requirements for receiving sets, imports being confined largely to tubes and fixed condensers. In the fiscal year 1931-32, imports of radio sets and parts into the Commonwealth were valued at L300,931, of which complete sets accounted for LI, 671; tubes, 1236,161; and other radio parts, fc>63,008.
It is estimated that total domestic production of receiving sets in 1932 amounted to 115,000 units.
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"While not directly related to this problem, the ques¬ tion of audio quality of transmission should be studied. It is impossible to determine the gain produced in the entertainment value of programs by increasing the range of audio frequencies from the radio broadcasting stations as now allocated, due to the fact that 10 kilocycle separation between carriers is not suf¬ ficient to permit receivers to be used which will accept high quality modulation without receiving interference from adjacent channels."
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