§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Postmaster-General when he estimates that the percentage of homes in Wales receiving B.B.C. Wales and B.B.C.2 programmes, respectively, will equal the percentage of homes which now receive B.B.C.1 transmissions.
§ Mr. StonehouseB.B.C. Wales, broadcast on V.H.F. on 405-lines, has reached its practical limit of population coverage attainable within the frequencies available. Although there are four stations still to be built of the 19 station network for this service, they will not add significantly to the 72 per cent. coverage already attained.
By about the end of 1973, the coverage in Wales attained by B.B.C.2, transmitted from stations in Wales on U.H.F. on 625-lines, should be about 77 per cent. A further but at present unquantifiable proportion of the population will be able to receive the programme from stations sited 118W in England. It is too soon to forecast progress after 1973.
Starting in 1970, a duplicate version of B.B.C. Wales, transmitted on U.H.F. on 625-lines is to be provided. Ultimately, it will attain the same coverage in Wales as that of B.B.C.2 transmitted from stations sited in Wales; but until 1973 at the earliest, the coverage attained by the duplicate version of B.B.C. Wales will be less than that attained by B.B.C.2. Both B.B.C.2 and duplicate B.B.C. Wales will transmit colour programmes.