Fill-ups
HIS is not an invitation to have one on the house. It is a comment on what happens when the house, or in this case, the broadcasting station, has to put one on itself, when the programme is running ahead of time. Everyone connected with the presentation of radio programmes has a morbid horror of silence. Listeners must not be left alone with their thoughts, even for one moment, lest they switch off for a better consideration of them. From the beginning of broadcasting, every announcer and technician must have experienced those desperate minutes when something outside the scheduled programme has to be called for. Yet, too often it is something uncalled for, and the listener is jolted with the most extraordinary incongruities. Recently, for instance, 1YA, three minutes ahead of time, interpolated in a chamber music hour a recording of what seemed to be bar-room songs (no announcement was made). It was very jolly, but it wasn’r chamber music; and a good deal of selfcontrol was needed to preserve mental equanimity. Despite the familiarity of this experience, whoever is responsible for finding the extra record usually makes necessity mother to the invention of the moment. No provision seems ever to be made for a contingency that constantly recurs.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 12
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210Fill-ups New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 12
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