RADIO PROGRAMMES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 16, 13 October 1927, Page 13

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Sir, —Your correspondents’ views on the broadcast programmes from the New Zealand stations are timely. I and others of my acquaintance, have felt strongly on the subject for some time past, and on their and my behalf I should like to take this opportunity of adding another protest. The root of the fault lies in the expressed policy of the Broadcasting Company, through their musical director, to educate the musical taste of the public, and "to eliminate that which .is harmful,” a policy, therefore, which is "rubbing against the grain,” so to speak, of the present popular taste, which taste, I might say, is only iu keeping with the times in which we live. How long, I wonder, are those of us who have paid our license fees going to endure the overwhelming preponderance of "entertainment” forced upon us. I am, etc , W - R - Wellington, October 11.

Sir,—l agree with the correspondent (“Fed Up”) re the radio . programmes wo are having to sit and listen to from New Zealand stations. I. am sure that listeners-in will agree with me when 1 say that the programme broadcast from 2 YA, Wellington, on Saturday nights, is practically the only one worth listening to from that station during the week. There is variety which is sadly lacking in the nightly programmes from 2YA and other New Zealand stations. The talent is in New Zealand, but I am sorry to sav we don’t hear it. Why? Ono has to’tune in to Australian stations to get something bright. I think it is about time that those responsible for the selecting of tho nightly programmes took a lesson from the Australian stations, and give the ballads and lovesick stuff a spell, and include instead a programme with a little brightness and pep which one can sit and listen to after coming homo from a hard day's work. Hoping someone more ablo with tho pen than I will carry on.—l am, etc., DISGUSTED. Wellington, October 12.