Chinese Government to Run Station XQHC
The Chinese Government's. new radio broadcasting station, XQHC. opened on Friday, The station Is under the control of Dr. Wen and Mr.
W. Chen, both attaches of the:
Ministry of Communteations Equipped with the latest technical apparatus. largely designed and built by the local Maroon! offices, the station is expected to add greatly to Shanghai's redia amenities. The studio ts fu Sassoon House. and will be presided over by Miss Hamilton, The transmitting station Is on the root of the Commercial Express and Storage building in Brosdway.
There will be fixed periods for! Chinese and foreign programmes. The Intter will be on the alr from 3280 to 2 and from 7 to 1030 pin. daily. Tt Is announced that there will be no stock quotations broadcast. the object of the new station being fo model itself on the lines of the BRE, in England and the NBC. in the USA. Advertising is to be confined to an absolute minimum.
The station was officially opened at Sassoon House on Saturday morning. Chen, representative of the when punctually at 1145 Mr. T. W.
Ministry of Communications, went up to the microphone and announced Station XQHC open, Within a few minutes of Mr. Chen's announcement, Dr. ¥. C. Wen, Direc for of the Bureau of International Telegraphs, who was introduced by Mr, F.C. Millington, made a brief and well delivered speech.
"Amongst the representatives various companies who attended the opening were Mr. A. J. Perry, gen= eral commercial manager of the Shanghai Telephone Company, Mr. Whitney of the Shanghai Gas Company, Mr, J.D. E. Shotter, Chairman of the China Broadcast Association Me. OF. Harris, representing the Shanghai "Municipal Council, Mr.
Hough of the RCA Victor Company, and Mr, Frithjot Hochnke, The "North-China Daily News" will give a brief summary of that Gay's paper over the station each night at 930 o'clock for the benefit of up-country Iisteners-in.
The speaker gave an Instance of the advantage of a self-contained continental power with xed frontiers. The British Empire to-day, he said, was Inked with India and Australia by alr routes, but these routes were at the merey of a whole group of Countries through which the planes must pass. A Soviet airman, on the other hand, could fly from the Arctic Circle to Afghanistan and come down in hig own territory. The same applied to North and South America.
China, an airman could fly from the borders of Tibet to. Shanchal. and these were facts which would play an important part In the econo oles of the future.
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