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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 12, 2 October 1931, Page 5

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Third Grid in Trouble. TN reply to "Third Grid’s" jest about Mr. Drummond, I must rather upset his argument-by telling him that he has not caught Mr. Drummond yet with a mistake, as he was not in the North Island at that time. Perhaps his third grid is giving him some

trouble.-

Amperite

(Stratford) _

"Hi HI! ‘Third Grid’ (Greymouth), I heartily agree with you that more popular instrumental music should be put over the air by the R.B.C., for the reason that this particular class of music can be produced by very inferior sets; thus it would stop, to a certain extent, the complaints $f transmissions from YA stations. Reie iving sets should be able to renroduce an announcer’s voice, but Hi Hi "Third Grid,’ you got the wrong announcer in your net. Don’t criticise until you are sure of your mark. Try another

speaker or set-

Second Grid

(Mas-

99 terton) _

The Future of Broadcasting. HE future of broadcasting seems to occasion great concern among those who think that the monopoly of the existing company should not be disturbed. You have devoted a good deal of space in your leaders since the present company made what they call a full and comprehensive statement of the position up to the present. The question which puzzles me is whether your articles are written in the interests of the company, or in the interests of the dealers, or in the interests of listeners, who are in the great majority. As a recent wireless convert and a listener paying 30/- a year that compels me to listen to a mixture of a lot of Yankee trash both musical and spoken, I fail to see that we are going to be any worse off by the proposed change. The business of broadcasting is so closely allied to the telegraph service of this and any other country, that to divorce it and place it in the hands of a company, whose one of a few objects is profit made out of listeners’ fees, does not, I am sure, meet with the considered opinion of the sensible majority of listeners in this Dominion. In support of the contention that Government control has ruined programmes you publish the views of the wireless operator on the Tainui. gi ean quote an authority who hapwns to be the author of over a dozen editions devoted to wireless. (Could your Tainui operator write such a dozen?) My authority states that the B.B.C. is easily the most efficient organisation of the kind in the world, that it is taken as a.standard by every foreign country, including America.-‘Ohser-ver." (This correspondent quoted in conclusion a lengthy extract from the editorial columns of another paper on a subject with which we dealt extensively earlier, quoting from many editorials, and we have not space for further ex-tracts.-Hd.] An Abrupt Ending. AUTHOUGH a keen supporter of the Radio Broadcasting Company, If! very much disapprove of their policy of changing over from the children’s session to the dinner music session 90

abruptly. On Monday, September 21, I was listening to the children’s session from 3YA. It was getting very near the conclusion when a very popular artist on 3YA’s children’s programme commenced to sing the good-night song -accompanied by a harp-when suddenly the chimes broke in on the music. That would not have been so bad, but as soon as the clock had finished striking, instead of allowing the young lady to finish her song, she was abruptly switched off, and, without any announcement, the dinner music started. Surely, in a case like this, a little latitude could be allowed and the dinner music session delayed a minute or two to allow the children’s session to be formally concluded.-DX9ONW.