RACE RESULTS BROADCAST PROMPTLY BY 3YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 5, 17 August 1928, Page 7

RACE RESULTS BROADCAST PROMPTLY BY 3YA

\. WING to the ban which the trotting and racing authorities have imposed on broadcasting, the Broadcasting Company was compelled to make arrangements off the course for the broadcasting of ‘results. : . Prior to the commencement of the racing the following announcement was published in the Christchurch Press and broadcast from 3YA. "As is now well known to the public, the racing and trotting authorities offered the Broadcasting Company free and mission to the course, a _ privilege which is always enjoyed by the newspapers, but the stipulation was made that in our case we should then not broadcast any results during the afternoon. The racing authorities, therefore, in addition to prohibiting broadcasting from the course, attempted further to restrict our service until the evening news session. As we could not agree to such a proposition, and cannot broadcast from the course, the Company made other arrangements for securing the results of the races. ‘These results are public property, and the information necessary for broadcasting will be secured by the Company in a perfectly legitimate manner. Listeners will, of course, realise that the company’s officers will be working under difficulties. However, every effort will be made to secure and broadcast at the earliest moment all the race information which listeners desire to know." O difficulties attended the broadcasting of the results. In the case of the trotting a temporary studio was arranged in a nearby house-the nearest of several that were offered the Company for the purpose-and the information concerning each race was brought from the course. Admission tickets were bought for all the Broad-~ casting Company’s employees, even for those who did not need to enter the grounds. FT was quite possible for a running description to have been given, but in consideration of the wishes of the trotting authorities the Broadcasting Company did not do it.