The Clock
HAT awful menace which hangs over every radio programme is invoked too often to subdue listeners who wish to defy it, Sunday is not an advertising day, but The Clock regulates it as efficiently as it does the week-days, The show must go on-on time. Why? Why isn’t it possible to play a record twice in the same session when a listener rings up to request it? Couldn’t another record be omitted if The Clock has to be pacified? Recently the 4ZB Citizens’ Forum discussed the question "Can You Change Human Nature?" and the chairman and I were both very regretful that many stimulating questions had to be omitted. He blamed it on "The Clock which is master of us all)" The Clock certainly masters the listener, refusing to lengthen his favourite sessions and allowing dull ones to drag on; but why should it master radio officials too, who seem to regard any radical impromptu alteration of a programme as a life-and-death matter?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 8
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165The Clock New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 8
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