For some considerable time past "Great Britain's {elevision Industry has been welcome {ing an ever-increasing stream of American radio experts, who have been sent to England to study television procedure and manufacture at first hand. These visits betoken something more than polite courtesy, for while the television service of two hours a week will. be introduced in the United States of America the spring of 1939, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been transmitting regular television programmes for the past two years, with a present minimum output of sixteen hours a week. British television is so far almost without a competitor. France has only recently purchased the rights for the British system, which she officially describes as the "incomparable British television"; - Germany has an experimental service in operation, but television receivers are sold 10 the public: America is using British receivers for her experimental services; whereas in Great Britain different models of television receivers are made by 20 firms, at prices between £22 and £251, and the publ buys some 2,000 {elevisors every month. Such sales are the Justification for the B.B.C's expenditure of some '£800,000 on television. In spite of the com: plexity of the apparatus. involved and the Consequent greater lability to breakdown, the Be's television station is as reliable as an ordinary radio transmitter, and failures are exceedingly rare.
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