MUSIC MOST POPULAR
A dissection of the matter broar/ast during the 27,181 transmitting hours for the year ended December 31 last shows that music took up 70 per cent.
of the broadcasting time, states the annual report of the Broadcasting Board. The following analysis sets out the position in detail:—Music—Serious 21.793 per cent, of programme time, light 43.467 per cent., modern dance 5.165 per cent., old-time dance 0.232 per cent.; plays and sketches, 4.312 per cent.; sporting commentaries and sporting talks, 2.862 per cent.; talksgeneral, educative, including school broadcasts, 6.515 per cent.; news, weather and market-reports, announcements, etc., 7.213 per cent.; church and devotional, services, 3.598 per cent.; children's sessions.-j4.838 ger cent,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 13
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112MUSIC MOST POPULAR Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 13
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