DAVENTRY NEWS BROADCASTS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23177, 14 November 1940, Page 12

DAVENTRY NEWS BROADCASTS

TO THE BD'XTOB OT THE PRESS. Sir, —From time to time we find the Daventry news broadcasts relegated to a subsidiary station in order that racing news might have pride of place from 3YA. To-day at lunch time, however, 3YA surpassed itself. The Daventry news was interrupted in the middle of a rather important announcement so that we might hear how the horses were lining up. In the eyes of 3YA it was much more important that the race was starting nicely than that America had decided to make her flying fortresses available to Britain. This same station then has the hypocrisy to broadcast national service talks asking us to put the war first. Example is much better than precept. It should be a golden rule of all YA stations, that nothing, however frivolous, should have precedence over war news.—Yours, etc., FIRST THINGS FIRST. November 13. 1940. TO THE EDITOR OT THE PRESS. Sir, —Listening to the 8.8.C. bulletin this day, November 13, at 1.15 p.m„ I was astounded, after the news of there being more than 6000 killed in England during October, and within a few minutes of completion of the broadcast, to be unceremoniously passed over to another station to make way for race news, and there to hear the rather disconcerting shout of “sports flash." It does not savour greatly of the big noise of New Zealand and her much-talked-of sympathy for sufferers in the Homeland.—Yours, etc., DURHAM. November 13, 1940.