Reduced Hours

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 31, 12 February 1932, Page 22

Reduced Hours

3ZC. Two Days Weekly Me. C. FY. WOODHEAD has made the following statement :-The Directors of .3ZC0 have decided not to cease broadcasting but to reduce drastically the service. The ‘present schedule of a 7-day week comprising 39 hours will be reduced to two days a week totalling five and a half hours, The sessions left are Wednesdays 7.30 p.m. till 11 pm. and Sundays 8 p.m. till 10 p.m. "This step has been taken with extreme regret, but it will have to remain in force until the Government gives some indication that it intends to carry out the promise given by it at the time the Broadcasting Bill pes passed. Listeners tuning their ifts may find us on the air with a programme at times other than _ those mentioned, but no guarantee can be given in this respect. Nor will those times necessarily be times at which 8ZC was formerly on the air. "These cuts in the service will automatically result in the station haying to dispense with the services of Miss Millicent Jennings, whose work as organiser of the women’s: morning sessions has been appreciated by so many listeners. "Another result will be a completely silent morning in both Wellington and Christchurch on Saturdays. Neither 2YA nor 2ZW are on the air on that day before 3 p.m. "Crystal set users have relied on 8ZC for four years on Tuesdays. They will now be left without any service; at all on that day. Possibly some criticism may be directed at us for cutting out the Tuesday night session whilst retaining the Wednesday night and part of the Sunday night sessions. I would therefore like to take this opportunity of stating that these are the only times at which we can guarantee to be on the air without interfering with the work towards which the energies of the staff will now be directed."