Too Much Radio

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 31, 15 February 1929, Page 4

Too Much Radio

Occasional Rest Urged ek HI} advantages. of giving listening au occasional rest is stressed in the * following article from the Sydney "Wireless W eekly" : : "What part should the listener play in broadcasting? The broadcasting station. transmit everything that can usefully: or agreeaby be put over, but it is the duty of.every listener to choose between what. he should hear and what he should leave alone. There are people who have their radio sets switched-on during practically the whole time of transmission, und loudly complain if what they hear during any session is not to theik~ijking. Now, there would be’ somethpig wrong ‘with broadcasting if any individual listener really enjoyed the whole programme from morning to close-down Lime.

No one, howeyer leisured his of her life, ought to listen all the time. Yet, like so many othef things, listening to Wireless broadcasting may become a habit, the listener fearing that he may be missing something. by not having the radio switched on. , (THE first, advice that I give to listeners, after the first enthusiasm hus worn off, is to exercise as much restraint in the use of broadcasting as is exercised in the enjoyment of any other of the good things of life. To this end an intelligent study of the progrummes of the various stations will contribute materially. Most peuple simply switch on thei sets at an habitual hour, and th praise or blame the broadcasting organisations, according to the measure of their personal appreciation.or otherwise of the items they happen. to. pick up. One should Jook up the programmes beforehand, and decide what one wishes to listen, to, and only that. ’ is inevitable, if the programmes are rightly compiled, that there will be many items to which any given listener will have no inclination to. listen, und he will be very well advised not to listen at all-at such times. But if one listens with discrimination, prepared for what is coming, and anxious to hear it, one will enjoy it very much more than if it is simply heard haphazard. Anticipation affords almost as much pleasure as realisation. _ int apcincenicetasiond