RADIO BROADCASTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 March 1932, Page 5

RADIO BROADCASTING

RECOMMENDATIONS to board.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, March 11. The first meeting of the Advisory Council, appointed to make recommendations to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, met and concluded its sessions to-day. Mr J. H- Owen, Wellington, }vas appointed Chairman of the Council. The deliberations were held in private and the whole field of broadcasting .was fully discussed. It was indicated that, in the opinion of the Council, certain localities were at present ill served by the YA stations, these districts being Southland, Stewart Island, Central Otago, South Canterbury, West Coast, Nelson, Wairarapa, Napier, Hastings, Gisborne, Palmerston North, North Taranaki, Waikato, Bay of Plepty, and Rotorua. In this connection, it was resolved, in View of the certainty that a fully-developed service depends on the expert report of the Coverage Commission, set up to investigate and recommend, that the next step to ' be taken, might advantageously be cooperation with the existing stations, in the following places: Invercargill, Grevmouth, Masterton, Hastings, Gisborne, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, and Hamilton. The Board was recommended to consider, as soon as practicable, .the cases not included in this list, as they have at present no station and the possibility of meeting the position, either by increasing the power of an adjacent YA station or by subsidising a station, which might be privately established in a locality, or by any other meansThe Council thought the policy of the Board should ultimately be to increase the power and coverage of the YA stations, rather than to build numerous small stations.

The Council considered that the suppression of serious radio interference should be the subject of Government regulation.

In connection with the issue to listeners of a questionnaire on programme preferences, the Council expressed its approval of the effort to get an opinion directly expressed in this way.

The Board was asked to consider the possibility of doing something for New Zealand by way of a standard guide of pronunciation for announcers, not necessatily on the lines of “broadcast English,” issued by the British Broadcasting Corporation.