Attack and Reply About Jubilee Broadcasts

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 45, 17 May 1935, Page 51

Attack and Reply About Jubilee Broadcasts

To the Editor, Sir,-In : common with many other listeners I enter an emphatic ‘protest against the way the Broadcasting stations failed to rise to the occasion and broadcast the jubilee service and King’s speech from London. That'the ouly relays of the jubilee were recorded tranemissions, pul over at 4.45 p.m., when few people could be at home to hear them, shows how incapable the board is of doing justice to a anemorable eyeut in the history of the Empire, Thanks to the Australian and. mark you, American stations, those with powerful sets were able to hear the. service from London, but why should we be dependent on these?-I am, ete.,

DISGUSTED.

[The times at which the original broadcasts were scheduled for transmission from the Empire Stations were inconvenient from the viewpoint of New Zealand listeners. For instance, the original broadenst of the Empire programme in whieh his Majesty participated commenced at 5 a.m. New Zealand Standard Time on ‘Tnesday last week. It was felt that a rebroadcast of this transmission would have had very few listeners owing to the early honr and the only other suitable occasion, having

regard to reception conditions at this sed> -$on of the ‘year, was at 4.45 p.m, the same: ' day. His Majesty himself was heard at. . approximately 6.5 p.m.-an hour which obviously must have been infinitely more convenient for New Zealand listeners than would have been the case twelve hours previously. -Ed.]