"To the Devil With Radio Howlers"

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 45

"To the Devil With Radio Howlers"

To the Editor Sir,-Through your journal I wish to add a few lines, in regard to broadcasting programmes, not as a _ howler, but as one who sincerely appreciates all musical programmes. I work inside all day and am_-very- deaf, but never miss an opportunity to plug my ear to the radio front and get a good earful. The breakfast hour is a source of delight to me, as that programme is so variable. One gets a taste of music of all kinds. I always read the "Radio Record." and have read, recently, many letters of complaint in regard to unsuitable programmes. They who howl must: have been born devoid of selective musical taste, and they ought not to be owners of. wireless sets. If any of them had the gift of commonsense, they would realise, as we do, that those who detail all programmes, have a hard job to select and arrange them and bring them up to the high standard they have done. Just a short time ago I read of a complaint about the so-called ear-splitting time signals. For myself I think ihe signals are a Godsend, since it is my job to wind the clock up. Sometimes I forget, and my clock stops. Where would I be without those signals? I fee] better now, as I have been disgusted long enotgh

with howlers and their howls; so here I say: "Long live the radio, and to the devil’ with howlers,"’-I am, ete.,

ANGEL

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Waitaki.