CHOICE OF PROGRAMMES
Sir,-Surely the time has arrived for the NZBS to take the listener into its confidence and explain fully the reason or reasons for its deliberate, policy of restricting the choice of programmes available at any given time. The trend can be traced back for some months, including the abolition of 2YA’s classical corners in the morning sessions, the "National ‘Breakfast Session," and the YA and YC links becoming more and more frequent regardless of any special merit in the programme concerned. Now comes all-day standardisation on Sundays. Presumably the other six days are marked for a blitz if the listeners accept this quietly enough, If the change were dictated by the conforming hand of bureaucracy. saying, "Listen when you are told to listen," it would be bad enough, but there are indications that there is more to the matter than that. If the standardisation is being done in the name of economy the least that listeners can expect are some accurate figures showing the extent of the economy. This is not a protest at the material broadcast, although that, too, is open to criticism. We need to be shown why every main station must have exactly the same programme and at exactly the same time,
AUSTEN B.
WARD
(Nelson
(The official reply to this letter is as follows: (1) There is no ‘all-day standardisation’ of the programmes broadcast by the six stations linked on Sundays, 1-4 YA and 3 and 4YZ, 1 and 2¥YZ being excluded meanwhile by the want of new land lines. They transmit the same programme (except when they leave the link for morning church service) till 4.30 in the afternoon, when the link ends. (2) The suggestion that all main national stations, or the six stations linked, now have exactly the same programme at the same time far exceeds the fact. Regular gramme links of the six stations specifi total less than 40 hours a week, The YA stations have about 80 and the YZ stations about 70 hours for programmes of their own afranging, mostly in the late afternoon and the evening, (3) ere is no ‘deliberate policy of restricting the of programmes’ at any given time. The policy of programme choice is and always has been a policy of choice among the programmes of regional stations; and that choice is not restricted Li --e one group of them at a
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 5
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