In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 13, 7 October 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

1 28's new announcer and 8YA’s morning announcer! ! Hnough said. Be gS * "h OTHER OF SIX" last week asked me to listen to 2YA’s, morning session. My suggestion is that if 2YA set about conducting a real morning session (2ZW style) they may have more listeners at that time of day. Most women like the woman-to-woman appeal-without the 74.2 per cént. car-bo-hydrate. # % gS So New Zealand stations are getting "pbird-minded."’ Why not try to emulate the B.B.C. by broadcasting "from the heart of primitive forest," a lone woodehen calling its mate, or a tui swallowing its notes. No records please! N.B.-"From the heart of primitive forest" is essential to anything N.Z. and that’s why I phrased it thus. * % e A. WORD from a man in the street -without prejudice, An announcer at a "B" station’s sponsored programme is so stilted as to make listening to the session difficult. Pg =m 2 VEN after hearing the Lex McDonald record from 2YA last week I am willing to believe he is @ great singer. s s ca Is Dr. Guy Scholefield 2YA has a ‘mine of information. I never fail to tune in to him on Wednesday evenings and always feel when he has finished that I know something more’ "about something,

em cenpenesd = CONGRATULATIONS 2Z2W.-An excellent relay of chamber music from the Town Hall last week. HH fire behind friend "Spark’s" smoke-screen re Mr. Drummond, of 2YA, departing is this: A Mr. Drummond (of Masterton) has been appointed assistant announcer at 4YA.. The news hounds of the dailies "got the story wrong," and the folowing appeared: "Mr. R. B. Allan, late of the operating staff at LYA, has been trans ferred to Dunedin, as has also Mre Drummond, of Wellington." y 8 2 J AM pleased to see that efforts are being made to co-ordinate Auckland’s radio stations. Ideal service jis the provision of alternative prograiqames, opposite in character-nothing less nothing more. If the B stations get together and do this they will thoroughly deserve the 2/6 they suggest listeners ‘should pay them. = & gt J MIGHT be unpopular for saying so, but it is my opinion that one of the deepest seated causes of international strife is patriotism overdone. Songs, literature and talks that exhalt one people over others or lead them to he- , lieve they are the salt of the earth must eventually lead to trouble. Ant this because a lecturer from a YA sta~ tion last week left. listeners with .the thought that Bngland was the home of demi.gods. "God’s chosen land." No, Sir, Dngland is only human after 4ll,- , and I prefer to agree with Cowper ‘When he says. "England with all thy. faults I love thee still." ,