‘SLIP IN SPEECH’
IN Z Press Association
GISBORNE, July 26.
With the advent of private radio broadcasting, the standards of announcing were slipping lower, particularly in slurring and pronunciation in speech, the retiring Director-Gen-eral of Broadcasting (Mr G. H. Stringer) said yesterday. The type of announcing introduced by private radio tended to follow the lines of Australian commercial stations, and this standard was not high, he said. “This lowering of standards has been noticeable in the last couple of years —probably since the advent of Radio Haurakl and Radio i,” he said. The decline in announcing standards came about because there was no single authority to protect the high standard which had been established, he said. “We have those who watch for standards of morality, literature, social behaviour, and the like, but what authority is there for radio announcing?”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32359, 27 July 1970, Page 24
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