BROADCAST BAN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 242, 26 July 1935, Page 6

BROADCAST BAN

THE POSITION IN DUNEDIN.

FEAR OF MONOPOLY EXPRESSED

(Per Press Association). BUNEBIN, This Day

Speaking on the ban on gramophone records, Mr R. Walls, of station 4ZM, *said he had no intention of closing the station, Avhich vvould continue to broadcast records. He could see no way out except Government intervention. If one or tAVo subsidised! B stations were permitted to use records a monopoly contrary to the IaAV would be created. They looked confidently to listeners for a backing, and he was already informed that Auckland, Nelson, and Christchurch intended to fight. An official of the Otago Radio Association, owner of 4ZB, said that the Association AA r as incorporated, so that if the demands Avere enforced that body would be Avound up, leaving nothing but transmitting apparatus to be taken.

Mr Barnett (owner of 4ZO) has replied to the Federation that matters complained of do not apply, as his is not a B station, but a private broadcasting station, without income. Another suggestion is that this move is preliminary to the next convention to review the situation regarding gramophone rights.