HEARING AND LISTENING
Sir-An Auckland newspaper recently published an analysis on a time basis of the programmes heard from national and X class non-commercial stations during the course of one week. The figures at first seemed surprising, Socalled "light" music was in the lead, taking up 46.71 per cent of the time. Serious music was given only 20.07 per cent, less than half of the time allotted to light music. This light music no doubt is heard by the majority of radio owners. Everywhere we hear cacophonous dance bands and sickly redundant crooners. Do people listen attentively to these noises? I contend, Sir, that they do not. These sounds are a background to talking and eating, They listen only to the time, the forecast and the news, Surely for this admittedly large group serious music would at least be just as good a background. For the sake of the worker living in the country, who is not often able to receive adequately the YC stations, could we not have more music for those who listen and less for those who hear sounds?
W. J.
O'SULLIVAN
(Te Kuiti).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 5
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187HEARING AND LISTENING New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 5
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