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Radio Times, duly 9th, 1926, THE WIRELESS SERMON. i naa a AERO DuAOFES sal (Ea? —_ 7 FONg 7 a IRELae! AEWA ent eames Meat LEFOS-aeaorogo AoE eer | Lever aPoo PRecLay et (ALAI \ ql bayer rigs PanaeeTER eeSHERRIE LO alt get Cia se Promt:ere (Recah we F cea) & a AaTauNGrant S08 40508 LA Lay LonDon ot Prtetas _— pe vnaourtl sntt act | PNEd8T i T R a g e ATTYnn ' : A i aTIT THEOFFICIALORGAN OF THEBBG Thelater cal at Live, Vol.1:12,No. 145, GP. as a Wewepapnr, ‘EVERYFFRIDAY. aes Pence.e. eaiiaeiieetetlicemma ~ -——_—o SS <<— An Editor. Looks at the Mininknnd: By Si ROBERT DONALD, G.B.E., LL.D. HERE is a coming issue which cannot be this direction and the American- Press has newspaper with international athhiations. ignored—the extent to which broad- not been affected by the competition. lts readers, or subscribers, will demand more easting will interiere. with the progress of We are approaching the stage, however, news, and if the Press and news agencies the Press, or change its character. At this put an embargo on the supply, the B.B.C. stage of development, radio is an ally, Will be foreed to collect its own: news af rather than a rival. It i¢ a supplementary all important events. It has been urged service, not an alternative. At first, wireless” that it is beyond the means and the capacity telegraphy was regarded as supplementary of -a broadcasting organization to collect to cables. Now, it is looked upon as a serious foreign news and that &-must temain competitor, Radio is a ‘cheap universal dependent on existing agencies, That is not information, “news, education, and enter- the case, a5 broadcasting stations could tainment service which is delivered into. the without ditculty anange for an interchange homes of millions and can be broadcast to af news. many more millions of listeners, — Suppesing, however, that listeners receive Already ‘newspapers are jealous of the a larger service of news, it does not follow potential competitor, The combined Press that the Press will-sufler to any appreciable Organizations in Great Britain presented extent. A listener may be satished with case to the recent Broadcasting. Gommiuttee the results of sporting é€vents;, but, as a to: prove why the circulation of news, by rule, he will want to Tead the news which radia should be restricted to the present he has heard, just a5 an audience which limits, which aré that theservice is sold to listens to a great oration wants to see, the Broadcasting “Committee by all the it in print.. The daihy~ paper’ will be left associated news agencies for issuc dt a time with its headlines, with-its pictures, with | which suits the newspapers and that all its. political articles, fiction and all ‘its _fied i direct broadcasting should be confined to general featutes, to. say nothing! of -its = speeches without curtailment or description, acvertisements. ) or to the bare results of sporting and other There are practical caifculties in the way =a events; of any’ very laree encroachment on news di Hitherto, England has occupied a middle distribution by broadcasting... Subseribers. position in the radio world’ as between Will not want fo listen to verbatim reports Europe. and America. In Continental of. speeches, and’ when «a ‘Government® countries Governments ave concerned them- THondpoly begins to curtail speeches ‘or five selves amore directly with radio. In the descriptive accounts ‘of them, it “cant [Sorahoe, escape the charge of impartiality. Public: United States the Government has-Teft it Sir ROBERT DONALD, G.B.E., LL.D., to free and unfettered competition. Some whose views ore of particular interest owing to men who speak into a imicrophone at public: American newspapers haye their-own broad- the fact that he was for many years the editor gatherings wilh be compelled to condense casting Stations and. there is nothinyto ‘step of & great London newspaper, their remarks—which will be «welcome the several hundreds’ of other American when the limitations plated upon radio to those who see, and by all who hear, stations from cirenlating news. Up to now, cannot well be maintamed. The London them. there has been no serous development m Station of the B.B.G, is ike a great national (Continued overlea! in column 3.) RADIO TIMES - |Joue Sen, S86. An Editor Looks at the The Wireless | Sermon. Microphone. (Continued from the precious page.) A Church of England View. By the Rev. H. W. Fox, D.S.O. Racho has several advantages over news cone was om stimndliing anid whiely -Mr. Walford Davies or Mr Martin Shaw. brondiesth in papers. li beats the Press both in speed dt. W. Roberison Sostt contributed to Tha church, would help enornoanshy bo mee the stundard rune cheapiess The tendenty will be Lit Radio Times of June lath, siggesting a new use to of congrecdtional aimginie. recluce the-annual licence fee and to use Whieh the broidcaat sermon migivt be: pot. L ecine buek, then, bo the Qua hon Faded ba Mr, SuTpUs prohits for improving the servic Thikts not the place to digmres the causes-of the Roberteon Sect} of the sermon brondenst by’ a hose who supply the revenue for a limited eeay cH Chueh. our, hut whether the use of ui fa d speaker inechurch, [ bolkeve that there ia eve ry public service-of this kind will resent making reason why the experiment should be tried, ‘There hid aperker in chiarrhes would jnonease the nin ber enforced contributions to nathenal taxation, id eh th be <niel-in tts faveur be the parson, mo of wieshippers or no, it would certainly relieve a Listeners will number several millions and acriona aituation with which the Chareh af England less than by those whe lieten fo him. There are few clergy who do not have to deliver at beast will become a well organized body -cutting ta faced at the present moment. On the one hana across the usual party lines, but a body to there is a crowing shortage of clergy; they ar three sermons or addressea every work, some many ‘ving More rapidly than ihe fiere* hein ardainedt, more, Every time they speak they are expected whose wishes polticians must. pay attention On the other fend, Uae diehard oeeh ook to be tresh and -stionlating : 4h met, the oonernga- While the Press, as the chief medmmfor living has heen nowhere-more hardly felt than by tient wall oromble and eriticise,...Asa mittor of fact, eirculating news, ‘will not suffer seriowshy 1 bee ilerey, Webbe bier noboriuwely vemncher pun ied joe; the thing ie 1 mente and. physical impassibility. from radia, it may be affected in other For bethothesc evils the remedy would aeem: to Bit most congregations would benefit from a WHYS, The spoken newspaper will be a he in developing « 4cheme for the amalgamation Variety of preachers not leas than all parsone, check on the prmted newspaper ft will ef parisbes, Bout it is- obvious that thia would With on efficient valve set there would be o wide stop suppression, keep the balance: level men in mest case thad the nomber sol services for thor of sermons that night he heard, and I anid be a healthy COTTECLEVE. which the parson woukl be responsible would he imacing thet on episcopal licence would not be duplicated, if not triplicated, unc a parson, beng required for switching on « Noncenformiat in an Also radio offers an alternative to the . alter all only hinman, haa wot yet managed to be Arolienn pour pit, Tt would do vs Anglicans a world Press when, for some reason, newspapers Im two planes at the eantime, of oond to listen sometined to a Pree Chorchman, fail to appear, This proved to be the case Conuregations, beng alo, homean nod. esmeerva- besides helping on thie enuee ob Chorietian unity. curing the Greneral Strike in Eneland last live, will object to any ulterations in the fixed hours The more widely, however, the loud speaker is May. The newspaper mdustry was the first of porvies toowhich they have been aooustomed for need in churches, the oreater most be the sore victim of the strike. For some days To The we- ene ruia * probably the cord y services which exenseed by the 6.6.0. in selecting their preachers, papers appeared; only a few very small they haye atiended at irrevuliar hoore hive been care both-as to the matter spoken and to the shects. For the wo weeks those for theie baptiem, theit marriage and their Manner oi delivery. Thi B.BAL Tse Tie bt emergency Press: melding funeral, and in regard at any rate to the first and oontent with rhe perekend average shundard= it of the stoke the improvised last of thear they were pat coneulted, Th ie, than, iInust eet tiself to give nothing less than the por eet the Government newspaper Phe ratish rather tor the iF poues of inerting an actual need and the best in preaching as inc all-ether parts. of Gazelle, only. produced a very emall per. than with any iden oi reviving the Tiapal eharch its. programme. } centage of the copies normalls circulate —— tiot, aaj aeons to me. there ‘is. the OP PROTety It will be-said, no doubt that ifsee da not-see our The public had to rely on broadcasting: ror al the lou epenker tr the wireless aermean preacher, much of the effect-of his preaching will be ¢arly news al the stoke and for such othet how fr the whole service should be broadest ia ioat.