RACE RESULTS
Sir.-I should be glad to know why it is that every listener in the country has to have his or her Saturday radio entertainment broken into every quar-ter-hour or so by the announcement. of race results from every corner of the land. I do not know what proportion of the population habitually. gambles on the results of these events, but it surely cannot be more than one-third at the "most. If this is so, why should the rest of us have to put up with these infuriating interruptions? If the gambling addicts cannot restrain themselves to hear the results after each broadcast of the news, as is done in almost every other part of the world, can the announcements not be confined to one station in each area, preferably. the Commercials? Having lived in other parts of the world before coming to New Zealand, I have had a reasonably wide experience of broadcast programmes; and I think that, even without making allowance for the ‘limitations imposed* by the small population of the country, programmes in general are very good indeed, It is a pity to spoil the whole thing every Saturday. As for having a football. commentary transferred to another station in the midst of the game to make way for Trentham results-words fail me. BLACK SATURDAY (Plimmerton),.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 5
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220RACE RESULTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 5
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