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MR. C. O. STANLEY, chairman of the Television Development Committee of the Radio Manufacturers Association, spoke at Manchester on May 13 outlining the great progress recently made with television. He pointed out that it is necessary to have a universal service for the whole of Great Britain in order to enable manufacturers to develop the export industry. The first step is to extend television to the provinces. While the mentality produced by experimental television remains, the public will not purchase sets. Even if only one provincial station were started, it would show that television has been accepted and would give a tremendous stimulus to the industry. The United States has studied the possibilities of television and by next September there will be twenty stations in operation. If good progress had been made in Great Britain in providing provincial stations and services, manufacturers in this country could have produced sets in such quantities that the initiative could have been taken in the South American countries, in South Africa and in other places. Unless the rate at which we are now moving is accelerated, the stations to be provided in these places will be American stations, and if this were so, the sets now being produced in Great Britain would not work when connected to them.
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Television and the Provinces. Nature 143, 889–890 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143889c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143889c0