Broadcasting Board To Be Enlarged

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 15 February 1935, Page 6

Broadcasting Board To Be Enlarged

Ban on Controversy to be Lifted Also EFORE leaving for. Australia last week, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, Postmaster General, made a. statement regarding the proposed amendments ‘to the Broadcasting Act. A Bill giving effect to the alterations will be submitted to Parliament during the coming session this month. ' "Tt is proposed to amend the Act by enlarging the board from three to seven members," the Minister said. ‘With a board of seven the Advisory Council Will be -unnecessary. The present regulations regarding controver- ‘ sial matters will be withdrawn and discretion in this matter left to the judgment of the board. Broadcasting in New Zealand will there-: fore be under the control of the board except such matters as licensing and wavelengths, which necessarily must be retained by the Government."

r and yet the 2YA wrestling announcer was allowed to continue week after week. Radio listeners seem to be getting tired : of jazz records, but l’m quite sure there Would be little dissatisfaction if some official of the board kad: the happy knack of being able to differentiate between recordings made by cheap inferior bands and recordings made by first-class tuneful, well-balanced combinations. if it were not for the fact that listeners can now enjoy overseas stations by means of short-wave and gvod broadcast sets, there is no doubt that radio licenses in New Zealand would fall cousiderably.I am, etc., ys

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