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THE birth and development of modern radio broadcasting are not least among the items of progress in our civilisation, which have taken place during the twenty-five year period the termination of which was commemorated last Monday by the Royal Jubilee celebrations. An excellent example of the present possibilities of broadcasting technique was provided on this occasion by the special programme from the B.B.C. stations, which enabled listeners in all parts of the Empire to visualise the scene in London, including the crowds, decorations and the Royal procession, and to participate in the thanksgiving service held in St. Paul's Cathedral. The issue of the Radio Times of May 3 contains an illustrated description by the Outside Broadcast Director of the B.B.C. of the arrangements which were made to carry out this programme. Special microphones, with local control points, were erected at Temple Bar, Ludgate Circus and on the front of St. Paul's Cathedral, from which was given a commentary on the Royal procession as it approached St. Paul's; while in the Cathedral itself, seventeen microphone circuits were provided for the adequate handling of the thanksgiving service. The suitable mixing of the various portions of the programme received along the total of twenty-seven circuits was carried out by one man, who was situated in the temporary control room erected over one of the vestries in the north-east corner of the Cathedral. This control room was connected to Broadcasting House by six outgoing circuits, two of which were utilised by a foreign commentator.
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The Royal Jubilee Broadcast. Nature 135, 782 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135782b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135782b0