Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 8, 6 September 1929, Page 10

Auckland Notes

HERE is universal satisfaction over this week’s announcement in the "Record" that "Auckland is to have a dinner music session from Tuesday next. Many of the more ° fortunate among us, who possess sets of the requisite power, have enjoyed regularly the 6 to 7 p.m. session supplied by 2YA, and we shall continue to-do so, but on Monday nights only, when our own station is silent. On other evening meal times 1YA will provide in

thousands of homes that "atmosphere" at' dinner which can be created only by that musie which can only be supplied by a. broadcasting station, with the best recorded music of the world at its disposal,- The dinner music session at 1YA marks another distinctive progression in broadeasting service in the north, and the effect of its inauguration will soon be observed by increases of licenses, and more particularly by | a.marked growth of radio trade. Using a couple of sets of headphones} a family can quite comfortably enjoy an evening programme, but the idea of. sitting down to the evening meal with the ’phones oyer the ears is in itself so humorous that the_effect. of © the new music session can at once be forecast. There will result a big demand for sets, large or small, which. will operate ’ loudspeakers, for the speaker is.daily becoming a more and more urgent requirement. On. the local market there are now several cheap efficient models of electric receivers, specially designed for local reception, and trade in these should be decidedly brisk. . One wonder§8, too, to what extent the dinner music session will be used in restaurants and hotel dining rooms. In eyen our most expensive hotels mechanieal musie has now replaced the two or three instrument "orchestras" of former years. Broadcasting. at the present juncture, will not replace this gramophone music, but it may well supplement it, and set a standard of dinner music which can be followed by the hotel instrument after 7 p.m, or when 1YA is not on the air. : VERTIMH for 1YA once more on ‘Monday night. "Wrestling" was in. progress, strenuous "wrestling." and. listeners enjoyed the accounts of it: quite as much as they marvelled at the ‘pandemonium which broke loose in the hall and rattled many a speaker with its intensity. T is a long time since we have had anything more enjoyable than the first Section of "La Traviata," so ably introduced and so splendidly broadcast from records on Tuesday evening. -On the following day quite a number of music lovers whom the writer met were + most enthusiastic over their enjoyment. of the preceding night’s reception, and expressed the hope that such features in the programme would be provided ° regularly. FIOSE local listeners who complain ’ of the fading here of 2YA should have been listening in to the Masterton relay of the Ranfurly Shield game between Wairarapa and Canterbury. Reception was absolutely perfect on the writer’s set, and not a syllable of the excellent description was missed from the time 2YA changed from records to an account of the game already in progress. Both the announcer who detailed ‘the game and the officials at the station are to ‘be congratulated upon a most meritorious performance. Our brother and sister listeners in Canterbury must also have had a treat. HB writer has heard no more regarding the proposal for an Auckfand radio exhibition, but understands that the scheme is still "in the air." What we want is the scheme "On. the air," and we hope to get it there, too. —