NOTES and NEWS from the NORTH

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 50, 27 June 1930, Page 33

NOTES and NEWS from the NORTH

HH relay of the Municipal Band from the Town Hall, Auckland, which was scheduled for Saturday, June 28, will not be carried out by 1YA. A studio programme has been substituted, the artists including Frank Campbell, light baritone; Owen Pritchard, and a Scottish novelty duo, Mr. A. L. Macpherson and Miss Gladys Hoskin, . * * * Two new dance bands are to be heard from 1YA shortly. These are Roy. Brinsden’s Royal Squadron Syncopators, who will appear on July 10, and the Monte Carlo Dance. Band. The latter combination, which will be heard on July 16, is made up entirely of ex-professional players from the theatre orchestras who have been disengaged owing to the advent of the talking pictures. . On July 10 light musi¢ will also be provided by Frank Wade and his Melody Boys, a new trio. This combination was formerly the Sunshine Duo. * * * T is interesting to recall in connection with the "New Zealand Night" being put on at 3YA on June 26 that a similar evening programme was given from 1YA on September 6 last year. The 1YA programme was most successful, and there is a possibility that another on the same lines will .be given from the station again this year. There is almost enough local talent to justify an "Auckland Night." . * * HB debate which was to have been given from 1YA on July 1 has been definitely cancelled. Naturally. great care has to be exercised in re gard to all materidl put over the air from a broadcasting station, a perfectly unbiased and unprejudiced attitude having to be maintained to avoid offending listeners. * * * JN order to observe this unbiased attitude a certain censorship must be imposed, and the text of any controversial matter must be examined. A good debate must be really controversial, and must have a_ certain amount of spontaneity and topicality if it is to interest outside listeners. This is impossible if it all has to be written beforehand and then spoken as written. It will be seen therefore that debates are tricky material for broadeasting purposes, and are not really suitable matter, for a national broadcasting concern, at any rate, to put over the air. The B.B.C. in Bngland have more than once found them-

selves in trouble over debates on subjects which appeared most harmless, and even an impromptu speaker over the air has been known to cause trouble through some ill-judged remark,