33. Mr. MALONEasked the Post master-General whether his Department has at any time suggested to the British Broadcasting Corporation that facilities for experimental transmissions should be afforded to the Baird television system as have been arranged with the fultograph apparatus?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONI informed both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Baird Television Development Company a few months ago that, so far as my Department is concerned, I should be prepared to agree to the use, subject to suitable conditions, 758 of one of the corporation's stations for experiments with television apparatus. The corporation decided, after their officers had witnessed a demonstration of the Baird system, that it did not then fulfil the conditions which would justify a trial through one of their stations, although they expressed their readiness to review this decision if and when development justified it. A further demonstration is being arranged, after which the question of using a broadcasting station for television will be reconsidered.