Broadcasting Accounts
Sir, —I base my charge of extortion against the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation on the mammoth, jumbo, family-sized surplus produced from television licence fees annually. “A. B. Cedarian” echoes the official excuse that all these millions of dollars are for future development, but no other venture is expected to provide
its capital entirely from current income. Newspaper reluctance to devote space to readers’ complaints about broadcasting facilitates brainwashing by the corporation, and few can see the contrast between this mismanaged public utility and, say, the transport industry. No bus service could double its fares now to set aside funds for buying vehicles in 1970, and. If a branch railway loses money, it is closed down. Commercial radio and the N.Z.B.C. Symphony Orchestra should be abolished forthwith if they must cost television viewers a million dollars a year between them.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. July 6, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31725, 8 July 1968, Page 10
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