RADIO BROADCASTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 333, 14 January 1937, Page 8

RADIO BROADCASTS.

Far-reaching Schemes Planned By Director. On his first visit to Auckland since his appointment as director of broadcasting, Professor James Shelley stated that far-reaching schemes for improving the standard of broadcasting were now under consideration, but no details could be divulged until Cabinet had discussed thtm. “My main consideration at present is the development of agencies whereby the standards of work in the studios may be raised,’’ stated Professor Shelley. “1 am not concerning myself very much, just at present, <ith th e programmes. They will change naturally as we grow up, as it were, from beneath.” Professor Shelley remarked that few people seemed to realise that there were only 24 hours in the day, and that in that period it was totally impossible to broadcast everything that the listeners might wish to hear. Events from time to time made alterations in the studio programme immediately necessary. Since the outbreak of infantile paralysis, for example, not only had the stations had to broadcast warnings and medical advice, a service that they willingly undertook in the public interest, but they had also to announce the cancellation or postponement of many important functions. Had they dealt individually with each of such notices that was received the whole 24 hours would hardly have been sufficient to broadcast them all, so that ther e was bound to be some resentment among members of those organisations whose notices had, perforce, to be omitted.