100,000 Radio Owners Can't Be Wrong!

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 8, 1 September 1933, Page 19

100,000 Radio Owners Can't Be Wrong!

New Zealand Achieves Milestone in Broadcasting History : _ .Radio.broadcasting in New Zealand has reached a milestone that will cause jubilation in’ the ranks of the tolerant | and grief in the hearts of those grumblers who insist that radio programmes in this country are so very, very terrible that the whole of the broadcasting service is rapidly heading

for the dogs-the license figures for New Zealand have passed the 100,000 mark! a On April 30 last, one month after radio owners were obliged to renew their annual licenses, there were 81,759 licensed listeners in the Dominion. The other day application was made for the 100,000th license-and New Zealand has achieved the goal that it has had for many months. There || is every indication that, by the end of the present term for licenses, several thousands will jhave‘been.added to the figure. This year there was a record low percentage of non-renewals . and the present figure would indicate that "once a listener, © always ja listener" seems ‘to, be a pretty good maxim, for it is apparent that most of the people who, did ‘not renew their licenses at the time have done so now-and a lot more besides! -_-s -- +.