RADIO BROADCASTING.

Evening Star, Issue 21098, 10 May 1932, Page 11

RADIO BROADCASTING.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —I agree with your correspondent “ Disgusted,” that station 4ZM is to bo comm.omled lor its rcbroadcast of the Wellington memorial bells, thus allowing the small set owners to hear them, and I think that 4YA was singularly lacking in initiative in not doing so.

In to-night’s issue of your paper a correspondent, over the uom do plume of “ Pair Play,” sees lit to indulge m a cheap gibe at the children’s hour from 4YA. The children’s hour is the brightest spot in the programmes from 4YA, and is listened to with enjoyment by hundreds, and perhaps thousands. 1 prefer not to discuss the merits or demerits of the children’s hour from the It stations. These stations are tilling in the gap on Thursday nights and are deserving of thanks for so doing.

Had ‘‘Pair Play” confined his criticism to the other portions of 4YA’s programme I could have agreed with him 4YA seems to have got into a rut, and the programmes are monotonous in the extreme. Yet when a chance comes to give ns something new. such as tile memorial hells, it is allowed to pass. The broadcast of the bolls came in for a good deal ot favourable comment, but it was either not considered important enough for 4YA, or the owners of small sets wero

not considered important enough to bother about. A lot more variety is needed from 4YA. There is practically no humour, no elocution, no sketches, nothing but item after item of dreary, classical music; that is, only one section of license holders is catered for.—i am, etc., Radio. May 9.