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A REVIEW of the activities of the British Broadcasting Corporation during 1936 is given in the tenth annual report of the Corporation, which has recently been issued as a white paper (Cmd. 5406. London: H.M. Stationery Office. 6d. net). The year 1936 was conspicuous in the first instance because three successive kings were involved in turn in certain of the broadcast programmes. The report contains details of the outstanding items in a wide variety of programmes broadcast throughout the year, during which the home transmitters were in operation for 71,123 hours, of which the proportion of breakdown periods was 0.031 per cent. The corresponding aggregate time for the Empire transmitters was 16,577 hours, an increase of more than forty per cent on the figure for 1935. Apart from the maintenance of the stations and plant required for these services, the activities of the B.B.C. on the engineering side included the putting into service of the high-power transmitter at Lisnagarvey in Northern Ireland, the completion of a similar transmitter at Burghead in the north of Scotland and the construction of a medium power transmitter at Beaumaris in Anglesey, which has been put into service in the current year. Good progress has also been made with large-scale extensions to the Empire Station at Daventry. These include the commencement of a third transmitter of considerably higher power than those now in operation; together with the erection of additional masts for an improved aerial system, which is the outcome of experiments carried out at the Empire Station since it was first put into service in 1932. Mention must also be made of the considerable experimental and engineering work involved in the equipment of the London Television Station at Alexandra Palace towards the end of the year under review. The report concludes with a summary of the financial position of the Corporation as at December 31,1936.
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Broadcasting in 1936. Nature 139, 663–664 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139663c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139663c0