Light Entertainment Featured

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 20, 28 November 1930, Page 3

Light Entertainment Featured

New Programme Schedule from December 1 ee AS from Monday next, December 1, the programmes of the YA stations will be rearranged according to an extended schedule, published below, increasing the hours devoted to the lighter forms of entertainment. __ . In, view of the admittedly great difficulty of providing programmes to please the diversified tastes of a radio audience, the Broadcasting Company has devised a scheme of broadcasting different types of programmes nightly from its stations. In this respect New Zealand listeners are fortunate in having the choice of so many stations when they tune in for the evening’s entertainment. When first arranging a schedule, or rota, the Broadcasting Company made a careful study of the needs of listeners, and _ since then, in order further to improve the service, it has made alterations and additions. The rota which has hitherto been followed has proved very acceptable to listeners, providing as it has done a choice of a variety of entertainments, and listeners will cordially welcome the extension of the service as shown in the new schedule. Devotees to the lighter forms of entertainment will be specially pleased. In future, operatic and classical programmes, hitherto occupying two evenings, will be combined into one and will be followed by a session of dance music. Thus, one more night every week from every station will be devoted to a concert of the popular type. From one station or another, on every week night, dance music will be broadcast. Dance music will be available from 2YA on three nights of the week and from the other stations on two nights. On Saturday evening all stations have a dance music session. A band concert is available to listeners on any of four nights of the week, from one or other of the nations. Those listeners in search of operatic and classical numbers can tune in to the station broadcasting that type of entertainment. , It may here be appropriately remarked that a process of evolution in all departments of the Broadcasting Company is continually going on. Listeners are, perhaps, concerned only with the programmes, but developments in every phase of. the service, some having a direct and all an indirect bearing on the programmes, are always taking place. The Broadcasting Company considers it.to be of paramount importance that everything connected with the service should be kept up to date. Advice as to any improvements which can be effected on the technical side is always given effect to and similarly every effort is made in respect to programmes, in the direction of utilising all the best available local talent, and overseas talent, too, whether in person or recorded.

The schedule now being followed by the YA stations is:

1YA 2YA Monday Silent Operaticclassical and dance Tuesday Operatic- Popular classical and dance Wednesday Band Silent Thursday Popular Band Friday Variets Variety and dance Saturday Vaudeville Vaudeville and dance and dance Sunday 8YA Band Silent Popular Operaticclassical and dance Variety Vaudeville and dance Divine Service, followed by Concert. 4YA Popular Band Operaticclassical and dance Silent Variety Vaudeville and dance