Viewers’ views

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32474, 8 December 1970, Page 4

Viewers’ views

Letters on television topics are subject to the rules applying to general correspondentce. "GRANDSTAND” I am writing to heartily endorse the remarks of “An Interested Viewer” with regard to the Grandstand programme showing the playing of the final of the New Zealand women’s golf championship. A commentator, like an umpire, should be completely impartial giving a true and unbiased account of the match. However, this commentator chose to highlight the play of Mrs Whitehead throughout the viewing, disregarding almost entirely the outstanding achievement of the eventual New Zealand champion, Mrs Cullen. To this viewer (who witnessed the actual match), it was a distorted and inaccurate account of a very fine game, played by two splendid sportswomen. ANOTHER INTERESTED ONLOOKER.

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: Headline news. 2.03: On Camera. 2.45: The £1,000,000 Bank Note. Second of four parts. 3.11: Women’s report. 3.25: Galloping Gourmet. Cooking. 3.50: To Rome With Love. Comedy. 4.16: Country Calendar (repeat). 4.32: Little Laura. 4.40: Topo Gigio. Puppets. 4.56: The Magic Roundabout. 5.01: The Hardy Boys. Adventure. 5.21: Headline news, weather. 5.24: The Flaxton Boys—" The Witches.” Adventure. 5.51: Wild Kingdom. Natural history. 6.16: Nanny and The Professor—“ The Wiblet Will Get You if You Don’t Watch Out.” Comedy. 6.43: Tien Heong Mei. Cooking. 7.00: Network news. 7.20: Weather. The South Tonight. 7.46: Coronation Street. 8.16: Marcus Welby M.D.—“Go Get ’Em Tiger.” Drama. 9.14: Newsbrief. 9.16: Gallery. Current affairs. 9.49: Softly, Softly—“ Pieces of Silver.” 10.45: On The Buses—“ The Canteen.” Comedy. 11.13: Late news, weather.

NATIONAL LINK (Including 3YA Christchurch (690 kilohertz); 2YA, Wellington (570 kilohertz); 4YA, ’ Dunedin (780 kilohertz); and 3YZ, Greymouth (920 kilohertz). 7.30 p.m.: On Stage New Zealand. 8.30: Weather and News. 9.0: Records to Remember. 9.30: The Orthodox Jews. 10.0: Eurojazz '7O (final). 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News, Comment, Weather. 10.45: The Brandywine Singers. 11.15: All night programme including:—12.6 a.m. The Land of the Heather. 1.0: Startime in Paris. 3.3: Who, Why, What, Which, When, How? 4.9: Light Music from the Netherlands. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz) 7.5 p.m.: Bach Organ Music. 7.31: Purcell:—Frank Patterson (tenor), John Beckett (harpsichord). 7.45: Letter from America. 8.0: Counterpoint. Music and musicians

of Canada (final). 8.49: Telemann: Sonata—Leonard Sharrow (bassoon), Walter Robert (piano). 9.0: Ecbnomic Survey. Dr G. P. Braae. 9.15: Vaughan Williams: Five English Folk Songs. London Madrigal Singers under Christopher Bishop. 9.30: Glazunov: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 55—U.S.S.R. Symphony Orchestra, under Konstantin Ivanov. 10.0: Humanity with Economy. 10.17: Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat—Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Maurice Gendron (cello), Hephzibah Menuhin (piano). 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilohertz) 8.2 p.m.: Motoring with Robbie. 8.30: Take it From Here. 9.2: Sweet Music. 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilohertz) 7.30 p.m.: . Things are Swinging. 9.30: Jazz Scene. 10.0: From the Top Pops.