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Wireless Transmission, Alderney

Volume 329: debated on Monday 29 November 1937

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53.

asked the Postmaster-General whether any application has been made to the Post Office for a broadcasting licence for a station that broadcasts daily between 12 and 1 o'clock with a woman announcer and the call sign Alderney, Channel Islands, speaking; and whether any permission has been granted for this station to operate under an amateur waveband?

I have received no application for a licence for a broadcasting station in the Island of Alderney and have granted no permission for such a station to be operated in any wave-band. Inquiries are being made regarding the transmissions referred to. When I have fuller information, I will consider what action should be taken in the matter.

Will he also make inquiries whether they have any local permits to broadcast music and gramophone records?