§ 76. Brigadier Medlicottasked the Assistant Postmaster-General if he is aware of the unsatisfactory position of Norfolk and Suffolk and other parts of East Anglia in relation to radio facilities in general, including poor reception, especially at night time, and frequent jamming or interference by foreign stations; and what steps are being taken to provide the people of this part of England with radio facilities at least up to the average of the standards enjoyed by other parts of the country.
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§ Mr. GammansI understand from the B.B.C. that reception of the Light Programme on the long wavelength and of the Third Programme should be generally satisfactory. The London Home Service Programme should be generally well received in the day time, as should the Midland Home Service in the area served by the transmitter at Norwich. After dark there is fading on the North and North-East coasts of East Anglia. There is serious interference with the London Home Service from a station at Dresden in the Soviet Zone of Germany. We have protested repeatedly, but without success. The B.B.C. is making tests with a view to improving Home Service local reception by means of a low-power station at Cromer.
§ 77. Brigadier Medlicottasked the Assistant Postmaster-General whether, in view of the fact that a booster television station is being provided for Brighton and Hove, which already have so many amenities, he will now be able to announce at an early date the provision of a similar station for the county of Norfolk, so that persons engaged in the task of food production, and whose amenities are limited, may no longer feel that they are being neglected as compared with the centres which happen to have greater density of population.
§ Mr. GammansI regret that I cannot yet add to the general statement on television which I made on 8th December.