BROADCASTING

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1927, Page 13

BROADCASTING

DAILY CHILDREN'S HOUR

The general manager of the Eadio -Broadcasting Company, Mr. A. B Harris, announces that in the very near future the company will introduce at ■all its new stations a complete children's session of at least one hour a day instead of the present intermittent service. The sessions, which will be under the control of a principal and a lady assistant, thoroughly experienced .in the entertainment, instruction, and welfare of children, will commence at 6 o clock. The general manager states that rfc is not intended that the grownups should entertain for the whole of the fame, but that the children themselves should do their share and literally make the session a "children's hour By encouraging the children to help to entertain their fellows, they will gam more benefit than if they were enrTnT T V\ y e»tert3i«ed, their talent will be developed, their self-reliance rnereased, and their view of life broad!

_ The Broadcasting Company is creating a new position, that of superintenf e.w H r°grammes- This improvement to the organisation of the company » an indication of tho improved and growing strength of the company of recent months and of its desire to do all possible to provide good programmes. The general manager elites moL V*? Seat P° liey o£ =ach. station piepaimg its own programmes will not be changed, but the new official will review, revise, and co-ordinate them according to a definite plan.

The above notice was received to-day ana meets a criticism which appears m the raaio notes ("Wireless World") m this issue. '