Suggestion for Conserving the Supply of Records

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 17, 2 November 1934, Page 6

Suggestion for Conserving the Supply of Records

To the Editor. Sir,-Some time ago there appeared in the "Radio Record" a short article on the ever-increasing difficulty of broadcasting authorities providing a, continual

supply of recorded music. ‘This is not hard to appreciate when one ,considers the number of hours of entertainment to be provided, the diversity of tastes, and the number of stations to be kept supplied. Repetition cannot be carried tao far, so supplies must soon reach a point where the situation will be a real and serious one. Therefore any scheme where recorded programmes could be conserved would no dowbt be welcomed. My snggestion is this :- . As ‘far as New Zealand is concerned, it will be noticed that the breakfast session,

the lunch: session, and the dinner music run concurrently from each YA station. Each station is giving listeners its particular programme, and there’s nothing to choose between them for variety o7 quality. But. this method, allowing for a period of 43 hours per day for -the three sessions, and the four stations, 2 total of 18 hours per day, must deman: a supply of somewhere about 250 records. -truly a staggering aggregate. So I would venture this suggestion: Why not link stations 1, 2, 8, and 4YA4 into a national broadcast, each : relaying a programme which could originate from 2YA,. thus giving a direct conserving of 75 per cent. in records? This is done for national talks, so why: not try the experiment, say. for tke dinner session, and then, if successful, extend the scheme to the breakfast*and Innch sessions?-I am. etc..

Waitaia,

SOUVENIR