WILL NOT BE SILENCED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 1

WILL NOT BE SILENCED

RACING BROADCASTS STATION’S FIRM STAND Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. The New Zealand Radio Broadcasting Company has intimated to the secretaries of the Racing and Trotting Conference that it proposes to broadcast for the benefit °f listeners such racing information as it has the legai right to broadcast, and that t will broadcast the results as soon as they are available. This is in reply to letters from conference authorities making Plain their intention to prohibit entirely tlie broadcasting of results durthe afternoon. The Broadcasting Company points oat how extraordinary it is that the and Trotting Conferences should place restrictions on the company when all other mediums of communication are allowed to broadcast results of events immediately they are available. company also points out how ridiculous it would be to broadcast at be evening session, say, the result of Jbe Grand National Steeplechase or me New Zealand Cup, several hours * ter every newspaper or follower of tio^ S has alread >' learned the informathese circumstances," the letter ’ n ti n ues, “tho Broadcasting Company -annot avail itself of the offer by the conference so long as it includes the n not to broadcast the results ■?.’ the evening session, a stipulation ruJi? 1 the conf erence has neither the nor the pow«* to enforce."