LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM R. D. MARRIOTT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2009
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• Publication Date: October 23, 1952
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THE- BRITISH 9ROADCASTING C4PORATION
Head Office : Broadcasting House, London, W.I
Caversham Park, Reading, Berks.
TELEPHONE : READING 72742
Reference:
07? AS. REM
F.B. 1. .,
2433 E Street, N.W.,
Yvas;ingt,n 25, D.C.
Man;, thanks for your letter of 3rd October. I send you herewith
the List of Eastern European broadcasts that we have been having difficulty
with at Caversham. lie cannot ai the moment give you their reception rating
because this has been the difficult period of the year when many of them have
not been received. This question of the rece tion rating in terms of the
symbols as used by F.B.I.S. is, I know, an old one which has been discussed
before and there is a ,:ertain resistance to it here, but I will look into it
fully bete+een now and the time I come over so that we can talk about it Grit'
then. STAT
lik oin_ over to Frankfurt and. Vienna. I think, ho..ever, the
best sing is wait until you and I have had a talk about the matter and then
let hi.,: go later if necessary. There is no urgency because it is oni. in the
sucner that the problem arises. STAT
I as afraid that I have never done more the : ,erely ac!To-ledge your
letter of 4t1- September r:hi.ciF---]signed and in which the proposed points
for our agenda were set out. I entirely agree and they are all matters which
I shall be very glad to discuss. I do not suppose you want me to comment on
them at this stage except perhaps to say that r:iti: regard to No.6 - since Wynne
told me that our attitude on this matter had given you anxiety at one time -
I do not trLiuk we shrill have any difficulty in agrseing. The only worry seers
to me to be the increasing amount of traffic which our communications system is
hz;.ving to bear.
The only points that I want to raise myself other than those you have
mentioned are this question of possible co-open tion with Frankfurt and Vienna
and also the re-arrangement of the liaison system on our side. Roughly
sueuking the proposal would be to withdraw the last remaining permanent Liaison
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officer at Cyprus, and to have instead a series of short visits to all
your stations so that we can keep in touch with your problems and make
knowtiour ovr.7 needs as time goes by. I think this would be more economical
in the long run and a more satisfactory arrangement.
I am waiting to hear from you the exact date you want me to be
in Washington and am holding myself in readiness to be there about
lsc December. I am very much looking forward to m eting you and to my
first visit to the United States. I leave for Cyprus the day after
tomorrow and shall be axle to give you firsthand news of your people there.
D. Marriott
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SATELLITE HOME SERVICE'~ROADCASTS UNSATISFACTORILY RECD AT CAVERSHAM
During the summer months, Prague daylight bulletins are, at times,
unsatisfactorily received at Caversham, but it is only on rare
occasions that they are lost altogether. Bulletins affected this
summer were:
U `/ 5
1200 (Not Su) News 38-4296-is
1800 News and Newsreel I
BRATISLAVA
The following bulletins are lost throughout the summer months:
0610 (Not Si)
Preview
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0645 (Su)
News
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109 `.IN
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IuVN -7
1500 (Not Su)
News 6617 -
1815
Radio Journal O97 - I `IV`f -1701
News and Press Material 13,/0 -/26 w ~~-
A4zu
'Szabad Nep' material CUAD
Production News
News and Press Review
Radio Journal d.dtc
Weather Report d,j
News ("Replies to Questions on Foreign
Caversham reception of Warsaw daylight bulletins deteriorates noticeably
during the summer months. . Certain Warsaw II and Regional bulletins
become completely unmonitorable, but Warsaw I broadcasts are, on the
whole, less affected.
WARSAW II 15?2`140~-/367~13o%-~~bf~-1;1Q} -Io`Ir1-SST"~~7
0900 (Su) News and Press Review
1600 News and occasionally Feature
1830 (Not Su) Actualities
WARSAW REGIONAL
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1520 (Not Su) Regional material Q)8
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HUNGARY
Reception of Budapest daylight bulletins is, on the whole, unreliable
during the summer months. No bulletin is lost entirely, i.e. for any
lengthy period, but at times reception deteriorates quite considerably.
 Bulletins suffering from unreliable reception during the summer months
are:
News
News and Press Review except Mondays
News
Feature or Commentary
Weather Report
News and Commentary
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Flark
Reception during daylight hours of Czech and Slovak transmitters
is very poor under existing conditions. Vienna reports good results
from Czech stations and poor to fair reception from Slovak transmitters.
Evening reception of the main Czech network program is fair at both
bureaus. Bratislava is received with poor to fair signal at both
bureaus. The powerful long wave station at Prague, 272 kilocycles, is
not monitored by either bureau so no evidence is available as to recep-
tion at Frankfurt or Vienna. Due to its high power (200 kilowatts)
it would probably be well received.
The only Hungarian or Polish station listed as monitorable in the
German Bureau's reception survey report is Wroc4aw with a "3" rating.
It relays most of the important Warsaw news periods, however. Other
stations were heard weakly during. daylight hours. No report has been
received from Austria on this station, but reception would probably
be no better than at-Frankfurt.
Frankfurt reports negative results on Hungarian broadcasts during
daylight hours. No help could be given BBC here without improvement of
antennae. Austria could possibly help but no ratings are available here.
It is doubtful that under existing conditions any regular monitor-
ing of European stations more than 200 miles from either bureau would be
feasible at this time. However, some improvement over BBC monitoring
Czech and Slovak stations during period March to September would be
observed.