Letters of Protest

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 31, 12 February 1932, Page 23

Letters of Protest

SEVERAL LETTERS of comment on the situation. have reached us, and are published below-as expressions of listeners’ views. We have not space for all. We, are given to understand _that similar letters have been refused publication by the daily press.. It is the policy of the "Record" to give full expression to listeners’ views, consistent with space limitations. A Plea For Help. MSS of Wellington's -music-lovers read: with anxiety, Station. 22W’'s recent statement. If the situation is that ‘the Broadcasting Board has refused ‘to grant 2Z2W any portion of the fees.collected for licenses, how does the Board think quality broadcasting is going to carry on? 2Z2W has the best programmes on the air in Wellington. Radio listeners who read this letter will agree with me when I say that at 7 o’clock, when 2ZW ecomés.on the air, most of us switch over to 2ZW and stay there until the programme is completed. We pay big license fees. Surely the station ‘to which we always listen should receive some portion of this money, especially when the station directors state that unless they get some portion of the fees they cannot carry on. Many of ‘us will not pay license fees unless we have the privilege of choosing what station to listen to. Most of us prefer 2ZW.-‘License Fee Paid." 2ZW Station. As one of the many members of the public, I enter an emphatic protest in respect to the Broadcasting Board not. according some financial support to the above station for the purpose of earrying on. Had it not been for the splendid programmes accorded by 2ZW during the past twelve months I am positive that the great bulk of listenersin, in Wellington district in any ease, would have been up in arms against the most indif.

ferent service rendered by 2YA. The practice in my home for months past has heen to listen-in to the dinnerhour music between 6 and 7 p.m. given by 2YA. and then to switch over to 2ZW, where usually the programme is so good that there is no occasion to trr other stations. On Friday evenings. when 2ZW is not on the air. the news and lecturette session given by 2YA is 2 weariness to the flesh. It is admitted that probably the news session is desirable from the point of view of listeners-in in the country, but it certainly is not very palatable to town listeners-in. That is all the more reason why 2ZW should be encouraged. There is ampl. revenue to provide an alternative service, and the Board should view the matter in a general way. T trust that better counsels will prevail and that 2ZW will not close

down.-

"Long

Suffering" |

(Wellington