LISTENERS' HABITS

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 2, 19 July 1935, Page 5

LISTENERS' HABITS

WITH the development of wireless sets possessed of a range and selectivity accessible to only a very few a year or two ‘ago, have listeners’ habits changed? Ten years ago the crystal set was the standby of mil‘ions of listeners the world ever; and all the crystal se! did was to receive the signals from the nearest b-oad-casting station. "There was, too, a large band of enithusiastic constructors, who made new sets every week and used them until they had "logged" a certain iumber. of stations. The point about these enthusiasts, however, is that they were not real listeners. As soon as they had got one wavelength they were off in search ‘of another; all they wished to prove was that their sets were capable of getting so many stations. ‘The contents of the programmes broadcast were of no jnterest to them. To-day there is still a large-and growing--group of constructional enthusiasts, but the main body of listeners possess their sets for the chief purpose of listening. Distance lends less enchantmen’ than a good programme. If 2YA is transmitting a better programme than KFI, then the indicator on ‘the set is trained on the Wellington station. There is no longer much fun or novelty about listening to a programme from Russia consisting of a torrent of foreign propaganda and uninteresting music when the local stations are featuring Gladys Moncrieff and some new recordings: