PROGRAMME SELECTION
Sir,-I wish to protest at the decreas. ing selection becoming available. in the programmes of the NZBS as the use of the new wide-band communicating lines increases. Most modern radios.in New Zealand can: receive satisfactorily programmes from two main centres, at least at night, and a few years ago it was possible almost always to find somewhere the kind of programme one wanted, whatever one’s tastes. The stricter division of material between YA and YC stations defined the type of programme available and made the search easier. However, it is going too far to combine a system of solely lowbrow or highbrow stations, with @ network system by which all the stations in the same grouping broadcast the same programme. The evening listener to the YC stations now often finds the same concert or recorded programme, which he may not like, being broadcast from ail four stations. The YA listener is in a similar situation on Sundays. Surely adequate national coverage could be obtained by broadcasting network programmes from two stations (perhaps in Dunedin and Wellington), and some allowance could still be made ‘for’ indi-
viduality?
E. S.
PAYKEL
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 5
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191PROGRAMME SELECTION New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 5
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