In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 33, 24 February 1933, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

At last 2Z3V’s stock of the march "Wellington" has been exhausted. -Or does the new announcer not know about it? c=) %

ORCE of habit-The doctor who put on a pair of headphones and said "now cough." And the solicitor who ruined his wet battery through overcharging. And the lady who kept the sun blinds down because her son complained the stations were fading. 2 « 2 A SLOW-MOTION dial: Telling a Scotsman a joke. 2 m s HERE are two kinds of stations in N.Z. B class and Be classy. * rd 3 BAR Quadrant,-Three whys from an Auckland listener: (1) Why do announcers, particularly those from B stations, mutter in their beards when announcing the titles of items? (2) Why does the dinner music have to be so heavy and tuneless? My gastronomic neryes crave light, tuneful meiodies. (8) Why one B station has a Scottish sponsored programme for three-quarters of an hour each week? A little Scotch with soda may be all right, but the preference of some B stations for Scottish music on the slightest provocation becomes tedious. -"Six-Valve." * * * CCORDING to figures recently issued by the Radio Congress at Madrid, there are 140,000,000 listeners. After that, it seems that whatever you and I think about broadcasting doesn’t matter very much, * * * T was recently stated that in Northern Ireland more than half ,the wireless sets in use were unlicensed -- The Wireless Free State. : » s s A RESIDENT in our cathedral city wrote to us the other day saying that the chimes from the cathedral came in so strong on his one-valve set that the whole town rushed out to help extinguish the fire.

With the colder weather, 2YA’s first man of the mike has returned to form. I knew neither he nor Wellington could stay off colour for long.

"(\H, I say, Auckland" is to be congratulated on a most thrilling relay of the finals of the Primary Schools’ Marble Championship last Monday evening. What about a running description, or at least a summary of the day’s play, in the next Hopscoteh tournament? * ¥ * PROVINCIAL daily relates how the loeal station relayed GSD better than did 2YA. It says the swing which accompanied 2YA’s signals was eliminated; I happened to tune in that relay, but under no stretch of imagination can I agree. Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but when it appears in print as fact-it does not look too well, * * e A SCOTSMAN was recently admitted into a Wellington hospital with his head jammed down the horn of,a loudspeaker. It was afterwards acd tnined that, in the church from whie the service was being broadcast, the collection had been upset. * u * DPUNEDIN'S unluckiest listener. The shopkeeper who found a dud banknote among his takings, and that evening tuned in to 4YA just in time to hear a well-known actress singing: "Rain Would I Change That Note!" * * * PROVINCIAL newspaper writes: "And now every Sunday evening there are thousands of listeners who, with humble mind and devout heart, tune-in to the broadcast sermons." Not including, of course, the new amateur who took all the afternoon to get the thing to go and then found he could not get ‘outside"’ till the local closed down. * LJSTENING-IN is a retreat for the ; husband, a recreation for the and a solace for the spinster.