PORRIDGE WITHOUT MUSIC?

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 21 December 1934, Page 11

PORRIDGE WITHOUT MUSIC?

---s Wairoa B Station Curtails Breakfast Sessions

(Special to the

Radio Record

MAY Gisborne listeners are asking whether their radio sets will be uble to provide them with breakfast music next year. At present, Gisborne people rely on 2ZP, Wairoa, for their breakfast accompaniment, but Uncle Peter anounced the other day that his only breakfast appearance after the end of the year would be on Sundays, and his only other session would be on Tuesday nights. . AS 2ZP was the only breakfast session station which hundreds of Gisborne listeners could. hear in comfort. the announcement of the curtailment of the: station’s programme will be greatly regretted. It was also listenéd to ‘by a wide area in Hawke’s Bay as far south as Waipukurau. Around Gisborne, great hopes are pinned to the new 1YA, and if it proves as good a&S expected the loss of the 2ZP programmes will be. minimised. In test broadcasts from the new transmitter picked up in.Gisborne, 1YA has been slightly disappointing. It should become Gisborne’s best station for daylight reception, but whether it will be strong enough to overcome the noise levels in all localities can be proved only after a careful check. If 1YA fails to come in with sufficient yolume there will be many in Gisborne who will eat without musie at breakfast time. Not only that, the radio in some localities will often remain silent until dark if 1YA is disappointing, or unless the noise level is reduced. i