Radio Transmission of Newspapers

Oral Answers to Questions — Posts and Telecommunications – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 April 1970.

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Photo of Mr Roy Roebuck Mr Roy Roebuck , Harrow East 12:00, 20 April 1970

asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications whether he will commission a study into the feasibility of the radio transmission of newspapers in the United Kingdom.

Photo of Mr John Stonehouse Mr John Stonehouse , Wednesbury

No, Sir; this method of transmission is already in use.

Photo of Mr Roy Roebuck Mr Roy Roebuck , Harrow East

Has my right hon. Friend studied the system that operates in Japan? Can he give the House an assurance that that system, whereby a person can receive a newspaper in his own house and tear it off an apparatus something like a television set, is under study here?

Photo of Mr John Stonehouse Mr John Stonehouse , Wednesbury

I have read Press reports of the system in use in Japan. I doubt whether it would be economically feasible yet awhile, but I know that research is being carried out into it.