Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

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THE ANTENNA AT STATION 5IT, BIRMINGHAM What We Are Doing With Broadcasting The Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company Compares English and American Broadcasting BY CAPTAIN P. P. ECKERSLEY Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting Company I THINK we will all agree as broadcasters that it is certainly more blessed to send than to receive. But at this particular moment I do not know that I can agree with that sentiment either, because it is very difficult in a short time to give you an adequate picture of what we are doing on the other side. May I say that in trying to paint this picture I am only doing it with the idea of not vaunting it as the most wonderful thing that has ever happened, nor decrying it as the most miserable. But to show you how broadcasting has been misunderstood when comparisons between national systems have been undertaken, I may state that I have read in some of your newspapers occasionally severe criticisms of your own progress and of ours; and I have seen foolish comparisons between the two. There can be no comparison at all, where the differences of areas are something like six million square miles as compared with a few hundred, and where there is a different temperament of the people to be considered, and different conditions in every sort of way. In the first place, we were miles behind you. You started broadcasting long before we did. But the amateurs of England petitioned the then Postmaster General two years ago that