2YA Sporting Service

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 28, 24 January 1930, Page 7

2YA Sporting Service

Sporting Summary to be Given at 1] p.m. N our issue last week ‘we published a certain amount of correspondence in connection with the variation of the service given to sporting enthusiasts by 2YA. In that it was indicated that the Saturday night summary had been abandoned, but that there was a question of its being resumed either at the old time of 10.45 p.m. or 11 p.m. Sporting enthusiasts will be glad to learn from the letter from the Radio Broadcasting Company published below that the summary will be resumed forthwith, but that it will be given at 11 p.m., instead of 10.45 p.m., as in the past. The alteration of time is designed to avoid interrupting the danée programme customarily arranged for Saturday evening. The letter reads as follows:- ' ; "IN your article entitled ‘2YA Sporting Service’ in last week’s issue of the ‘Radio Record’ there appears to be some misunderstanding wherein you state that the Saturday evening 10.45 summary has been dropped, and that you understand from communication with the Broadcasting Company that the question of reinstating this service either at 10.45 or 11 p.m. is under review. . "We would advise that the Saturday evening sports summary has not been dropped, but is broadcast at 11 p.m., fifteen minutes later, so as not to trespass on the dance session. "From _a careful study of the position the Company finds that a large number of listeners have arranged dances on Saturday night; so as to take advantage of the special programme arranged by the Company, but in consequence of the innovation of the sports summary they have? ’ received only three-quarters of an hour instead of one hour as previously, and as is the case at our other stations. Arrangements have now been made whereby the summary of the main sporting results is repeated at the close of the dance session, or only 15 minutes later than hitherto. "As stated in your remarks, the further summaries of sports are broadcast at 3.30 and 4.80 during the afternoon sessions, except when special relays are undertaken, and all available news and sports matter as far as practicable is broadcast during the 7 to 8 p.m. session, which has been primarily set aside for this particular purpose as the hour most. suitable for the majority of listeners." . :