BROADCASTING OF RECORDS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 19 September 1938, Page 14

BROADCASTING OF RECORDS

vo the KsrroK or the pbebs. Sir, —The cprrespondent who replied to my letter on deceptive broadcasts has somewhat missed the ..point. He seems to think that my remarks were directed to the “concert hall of the air’’ sessions. This is not so; I merely mentioned this series as typical of a class of. programme presentation which,; unfortunately, is becoming, too frequent. The point I desire to make is that people should be able to believe in anything they hear over the air and not have to doubt that after all the broadcaster may be “putting one across them.’’ A further example occurred again only last night. An announcement, was put over earlier in the day from 3YA that at 6.40 p.m. the station would rebroadcast from 2YA a talk bn Czechoslovakian affairs put out from Daventry. The listener was led to believe it was to be an “up to the minute” broadcast on conditions obtaining at that particular time. Thinking that possibly I would, get the broadcast better if I tuned, in on short wave, I pjcked up jDaventry direct. Did I get the broadcast? Not a bit of it—Daventry was on its usual programme, and it would appear that the material put out from 3YA was actually a recorded portion of a talk put out at some considerable time previously from Daventry. It was a.pretty poor effort anyway, but people should

» have been told just what the pocb«*||,. : was. > - ; The newspapers of this country BggßE. • an excellent reputation for f - So much so that the popular QPfaffirPjfe i- that if a statement appeare . f paper it is authentic. It is quue common thing to hear: "It* L true; I readmit in the paper.” - ■ cannot the > broadcasters endeavouring ■ emulate the press in this \ There is nothing clever or dece»y?Sg : -deceiving a trusting audience. —. 1 etc -> ■ ■ : ,so^» ‘ September 15. 1938.