Unexpected Change in Rowing Announcers

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 46, 24 May 1935, Page 50

Unexpected Change in Rowing Announcers

To the Editor Sir-As n constant listener since the ineeption of the Radio Broadcasting Board, may I be privileged to: protest most emphatically against the action of 4YA, Dunedin, in transposing the local aquatic announcer for a comparative stranger to broadcast such an important event as the New Zealand champion eights. The broadcast was anything but satisfactory. Let it be understood that T do not wish to hold the man respousible for the job up to ridicule, as *% -believe he really gave of his best. Suffice it to say that surely the local 4YA station director was taking a big chance when, as I am told, the old an-

nouncer’s name wae submitted along with Mr. Young’s by the Otago Rowing Association. Surely it was decidedly unwise to swap horses in midstream? Do we take this action to mean thay we, the listeners, are now to be denied ’ our usual annouveer in the future? Why has the local station direetor taken some’ years to find ont that a change was necessary, and this to take place at such an inopportune time?-I am, ete¢.,

CURIOUS

Dunedin.