What is Wrong With Broadcasting?

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 33, 28 February 1930, Page 13

What is Wrong With Broadcasting?

Some Original Views

A JOURNEY in a railway carriage, where the conversation is tuned in to the subject of "What is wrong with Broadcasting?" is usually productive of original views from ail quarters. Travelling to the office the other morning, we discovered: (1) That the announcer’s is an ideal life, because you don’t have to work. (2) That grandmother would have had a fit if she had lived to hear all this broadeasting. (3) That « "radio fan" is an apparatus for keeping the studio cool these warm summer evenings. (4) That if you lose a dog, a parrot, or an umbrella, the R.B.C. will send out an SOS for you-and they don’t charge you ANYthing, my dear! (5) That I am the only man about the house that really understands our wireless set. (6) That if they’d only get a man like Sam Jones, of Woop Woop, to arrange the programmes, well, then we should hear something worth while. (7) That this jazz is teaching our young people to behave like primitive negroes. (8) That according to our kitchen clock. the time signal from 2YA was late last night. (9) That before the appearance of the .lcetriec Section of the "Radio Record" I had at least one book I could call my own. Now it is the wife’s cookery guide.