PLANNED PROGRAMMES.
Sir,-The policy of the NBS seems to me to be to please nobody. That is to say, it is difficult to have one’s taste’ met, in whatever direction, for anything like half an hour. The reason is the continual and unreasonable confusion of the matter presented: one is jumped from one type of music to another, from record to record of unplanned commonplaceness. To those with any degree of formed taste in music, no matter in what direction, this is exasperating. Under American control, 1ZM _ transmission hours were broken up into sufficient periods of time for the satisfaction of those with a liking for sa particular form of entertainment, whether it was Palestrina or Benny. Goodman, Bob Hope or Bach. I suggest that a rigid segregation of broadcasting matter into types of entertainment is the way of escape for the NBS from /its precent
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ROBIN
ROCKEL
(Masterton)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 7
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150PLANNED PROGRAMMES. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 7
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