Cricket upsets viewers
PA Auckland The decision by TVNZ two weeks ago to screen live cover of the New Zea-land-Australia cricket tests triggered hundreds of complaints. TVNZ’s public relations manager, Mr Colin Hindson, said last evening that he could not recall any decision which caused so great a reaction.
Virtually all complaints were from viewers upset
about the disruption of regular programmes. “There was one call of ’well done’,” he said. As New Zealand headed for a series win against Australia on Wednesday, television executives tried in vain to arrange extended live coverage. He said there were only a few calls critical of the inability to screen more
cricket on Wednesday evening.
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