BROADCASTING PLUS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 312, 15 June 1945, Page 5

BROADCASTING PLUS

Sir,-As an old subscriber who buys The Listener to get the advance progtammes and information about them, I have a legitimate grievance about the paper’s set-up. The cover says it is the "Journal of the National Broadcasting Service." Anyone reading that would ‘Surely suppose that the paper dealt with broadcasting. I’ve taken the trouble to check up on the issue of May 25, and I find that of 104 columns, exclusive of programmes, not more than 24 even remotely concern broadcasting. Surely owners of ~radios who buy The Listener have the right to expect that advertising should be reduced. to a minimum and that, if the paper will not then show a profit, the Government should assist it with some of the huge reserves built up from license fees. If The Listener is to be the vehicle for aspiring writers, let them write about what we listen to, instead of anything else from the war loan, Chinese art, and French socialism to mistaken journeys and mother’s bread pudding.

AUDIO

(Dunedin).

[The great majority of our subscribers buy The Listener for advance programmes, for information about them, and for everything else we can give them for their money. To argue that we must not give them anything else is to argue that a wheat-farmer must not fatten lambs or a dairy-farmer grow oats, that a mail-car must not cary passengers or a passenger train carry mails, and comes near to suggesting that no one should live in Dunedin unless he burrs his r’s, has porridge for breakfast, and attends the Presbyterian Church.-Ed.] ¥