ELECTION CHART NEXT WEEK

New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 7

ELECTION CHART NEXT WEEK

O help those who will be following the progress of the Big Count on the night of September 1, "The Listener" will print an election chart in the next issue. Nominations closed too late for its inclusion this week. With Saturday polling (and no newspapers available the day after the election), listeners will rely more than ever on results from the NZBS, and they should find "The Listener" chart of even greater value than in the past. ‘THE NZBS has arranged very full coverage on election night, and will broadcast several summaries the day after. Though arrangements are similar to those for the 1949 election, several changes made should give listeners even quicker service than they had then. The main National Stations will link at 7.15 p.m, instead of at 7.30 p.m. Summaries (which will be half-hourly instead of hourly) will early in the evening contain no comment-only the state of the parties and the names of electorates won-and will last only a minute or two (instead of ten minutes). They will be more extensive when the flow of results falls off. Other small changes made should also speed up the system slightly; and with no licensing poll listeners should not have as late a night as at past elections, All YA and YZ listeners will link at 7.15 p.m., and apart from times when YZ stations may leave the link to broadcast local results and candidates’ speeches, they will remain linked throughout the evening. In most cases Dominion Tesults will be in the hands of announcers at Wellington not more than five minutes after they are despatched by Returning Officers in the various electorates. The ZB and X stations and 2ZA will broadcast local results and candidates’ speeches. Half-hourly summaries, the first at 7.45 p.m., will be broadcast by YA, YZ, ZB, ZA and X stations. To help listeners to follow Dominion results, electorates will be numbered consecutively in alphabetical order, and these numbers will be used also in The Listener chart. The YA and YZ stations will broadcast the 9.0 p.m. weather report.. The YC and YD stations will broadcast alternative programmes and brief progress summaries cf Dominion results. The 9.4 p.m. New Zesland and overseas news and the 11.0 p-m. London news will be heard from the YC staticns which will then go off the air. The YD stations will close down at the normal time. On Sunday, September 2, YA,. YZ and ZB stations will broadcast a short summary of election results following the 7.35 a.m. weather forecast. For a more extensive review at 8.0 a.m. they will be joined by the X stations and 2ZA. Following the 9.0 a.m. weather forecast YA, YZ and X stations and 2ZA will link for a complete summary... This summary will be heard from ZB stations and possibly X stations and 2ZA‘at 10.30 p.m. Following the 12.30 p-m. weather forecast YA, YZ and ZB stations will broadcast a complete summary of results, the YA and YZ stations remaining linked for a rebroadcast of speeches of thanks by the party leaders.