EACH HIS OWN PROGRAMME
The Editor, The Listener. Sir,-Would it be possible to have a different classification of radio programmes, especially from the four main centres? Could we not have one station for light music, popular songs round the camp fire series, bands and orchestras and all music of a bright mature; one station for classical music; one station for talks, serials, sports etc; and one station for dance music for the young people (10 o’clock is too late for a house party)? Everybody, every night, would then get a programme to his or her own taste, Individual tastes differ, and it is very hard night after night to be compelled to listen to a programme in which one isn’t in the least interested. Why not give classifying the programmes a trial? It would soon be discovered if it were popular or not, and programmes could easily be changed back again, if the method proved not a success. If this course is not practicable, however, would it be possible to have a continuous musical programme of popular songs, etc, from any one of the stations, say 1ZM, from about 7 to 10.30 or 11? I feel sure this would become very popular. The bright music seems to have been cut right out of the programmes lately, and most of us are not educated to appreciate the highbrow classical music we seem to get so much of. I hope you won’t take me for a grouser, as I certainly am not. I’m simply suggesting a course that I think would meet every possible taste and allow one to have a whole evening with the type of entertainment one likes best. Those of us who like a bright musical programme don’t get a hearing till it is bed-time for most of us. Is this fair? I realise that the task of pleasing everyone is not easy, but wouldn’t this classifying of the programme be a way out of the difficulty? Yours etc.,
WILLING TO BE REASONABLE
Auckland, June 10, 1940. j (If the change were practicable, it would be unnecessary, since each listener would turn to thé items on all *programmes that most interested him. It is because it is not easy to listen to any station with any set from any centre that listeners are not asked to do this~Ed.),
More " Letters from Listeners " will be found on Page 55.
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