Radio quota ‘desirable’
PA Auckland A quota of New Zealand music is culturally desirable for broadcasting in this country, the Royal Commission on Broadcasting was told. In his evidence to the commission Dr Michael Volkerling, the director of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, said broadcasting services were cultural.
“There needs to be a place where the public have access to the cultural and indigenous sound of New Zealand,” he said. “That place is radio.” The Arts Council suggested that the commission study an Australian example as a model for radio quotas, and recommended that quotas apply equally to public and private warrantholders.
The quotas should relate to music content only.
Two concurrent quotas should be maintained, one for music performed by New Zealanders and another for music composed by New Zealanders.
The council recommended that targets be established of 25 per cent performance and 25 per cent composition content by the end of 1990.
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Press, 5 December 1985, Page 51
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