BROADCAST PROGRAMMES
Sir,-Criticisms of the programmes are many, but mine does not concern itself with their nature but with the times chosen. Nightly we are surfeited with musical recordings while the most inopportune times allotted for many items result in important broadcasts falling on the empty air. As an instance, Sunday afternoon was chosen for the broadcasting of a series of talks on the outstanding work of New Zealanders abroad. Some people who happened occasionally to be at home at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoons heard one or two of the ten talks and regretted they had missed the others. This series is now being broadcast from 1YA, Auckland, and the hour chosen is the same as that of 2YA, Wellington, although we are now in mid-summer when the call to the outdoors is more insistent on Sunday afternoons than during the Wellington broadcast a couple of months ago. As "New Zealand Brains Abroad " touches so many families in this country, and is such a revelation of the work of our own people in all parts of the world, I trust that the authorities will give their countrymen and women an opportunity of hearing of them by allotting the talks a suitable time at night when people have more leisure and a greater desire to listen --N.Z. PATRIOT (Oamaru). The official reply to this complaint is briefly this: "N.Z. Patriot" would have cause for complaint if it were correct, as he suggests in his second sentence, that listeners are being nightly surfeited with musical recordings while important broadcasts fall on empty air. Actually, listeners are complaining that musical programmes are being interfered with far too much for the purpose of broadcasting war talks. While we do not subscribe to this view, we feel that some reasonable proportion must be maintained between war talks and the artistic side of the broadcast programmes. It would have been most difficult to justify finding a space in the evening programmes for the ‘"‘N.Z. Brains Abroad " talks, and almost impossible to guarantee any regularity in the presentation of the talks. It was therefore a case of Sunday afternoon or not at all in the meantime,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 85, 7 February 1941, Page 4
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