Pros and Cons of Various Broadcast Topics
To the Editor. Sir,-First a word about your paperin my Opinion, the "Radio Record" is the finest, most concise, and most easily readable paper of its type to be found in any part of the globe. During my frequent travels round the world, I have had a good opportunity of studying matters of this nature, and the price, I think, is perfectly reasonable. Compared with American. programmes, my Opinion is that New Zealand programmes are very, very infantile. This is not, ‘however, an "incurable" matter. When: the right type of seasoned and of trained men, with an understanding of entertainment in all its various phases, are engaged to control radio matters, I feel sure that radio entertainment in New Zealand will improve 100 per cent. For example, while the radio chiefs see fit to approve an orchestra such as 1YA studio orchestra, it is really like "erying for the moon" to expect good general programmes from the national stations. The general "affectedness" of the YA announcers and their different personal "freak" ‘pronunciations of the same words is, I think, another indication of the apparent "I don’t know" policy of the board. The above does not apply to the chief announcers of 1YA and 2YA \ ~-these men are good announcers: ~ ‘ Mr. Gordon Hutter also is the finest ‘f announcer of his type I have heard in" — any part of the world, but 2YA’s last season’s wrestling announcer-well, the less said the better. The remarkable thing is that Wellington is the official headquarters of the Broadcasting Board,
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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 15 February 1935, Page 6
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262Pros and Cons of Various Broadcast Topics Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 15 February 1935, Page 6
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