Parliament

Radio Record, 21 August 1936, Page 51

Parliament

"Anti-Budget" (Dunedin) writes: I wish to enter a protest against the practice of broadcasting parliamentary debates through all four national stations. I believe in the first place that the popularity of parliamentary broadcasts — is over-estimated, but even allowing thnt a fair proportion of listeners wish to listen to them, and are, therefore, entitled to deo so, I consider it an unfair interference with the rights of those who do not to cancel (in effect) for many of them the scheduled programmes of three out of the four YA stations. Take, for, example my exper'ence this evening. JI had no desire to listen to the Budget debate. On the other hand there were features of the programmes of each of the stations 1YA, 2YA and 8YA to which I desired to listen. Certainly. the programmes of these stations were transferred to the lower-powered subsidiary stations, but as my set will not bring them in satisfactor ily, the programmes were cancelled so far as I was concerned. [I was consequently confined to 4¥O and two local B statioijis, and while they gave quite good _ pro--grammes, they did not and could not produce the features to which I had looked forward