A GREAT SUCCESS
WORK OF CONTROLLER
The Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) said the people of New Zealand heard the result of the work of the Controller of Commercial Broadcasting, and he believed the opinion of the people of New Zealand was that he was a great success. Mr. Mason said he was convinced there was room for two kinds of broadcasting. If one was to be sacrificed ne would say the Y.A. stations should be retained, but that did not alter the fact that the commercial programmes were very popular. It would have been foolish to duplicate the YA service, and in any event - commercial broadcasting required a different type of programme. They all knew that commercial programmes had to be interrupted for advertising purposes, and it was obvious that a Beethoven sonata should not be interrupted for that purpose. Evidently the members of the Opposition were associating themselves with a Press attempt to attach a stigma to the. Controller of Commercial Broadcasting, and if that were so they were not associating with a very worthy cause. The newspaper concerned XRS opposed to commercial broadcasting because it was a rival for advertising trade.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 6
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196A GREAT SUCCESS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 6
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