HC Deb 06 June 1946 vol 423 c351W
5. Mr. Ernest Davies

asked the Assistant Postmaster General under what arrangement U.S. broadcasting companies are granted use, free of charge, of B.B.C. facilities in the United Kingdom in connection with the transmission of their own broadcasts to the U.S.A.

Mr. Burke

It is the accepted practice for broadcasting organisations to help one another on a give and take basis with a view to facilitating broadcasting operations generally. The help given free of charge by the B.B.C. to United States broadcasting organisations, which consists in the main of the provision of microphone, studio, and recording facilities, is afforded in this spirit, and is matched by the help the Corporation receives in the U.S.A.