N.Z. RADIO SERVICE

Grey River Argus, 11 September 1935, Page 5

N.Z. RADIO SERVICE

LONGER HOURS Light Music Overdone (Our Parliamentary Reporter). PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, September 10. A further increase in the hours of transmission of the broadcasting stations controlled by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board is revealed in the third annual report of the Board, predated to Parliament to-day. A pro gressive increase in the hours of transmission per annum since the Board took over is shown in the following figures:—January Ist, 1932, 10 612 hrs, at January Ist, 1933, 16.484 hrs.; a' January Ist 1934 23. 036 hrs.; at Janu cry Ist, 1935, 25,700 hrs. The following figures indicate the proportion of the programme time oc cupied by the various types of items broadcast during t’he year ended December 31st, last: Serious music, 17.26 per cent; light music; 42.88 per cent; modern dance music 9 per cent; oldtime dance music 0.99 per cent; plays and sketches 3.38 per cent; sporting commentaries and sports talks 2 75 pei cent; genera] talks, 7.66 per cent; news and reports, announcements, etc., 7.25 pet cent; church and devotional services 3.76 per cent; children’s sessions 5.10 per cent'.

MENACE TO B STATIONS. (Our Parliamentary Reporter.) PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. September 10. In an urgent question to the Post-master-General in the House to-day, h was' asked for a definite statement of the Government’s policy concerning broadcasting, as the present uncertainty regarding the B Stations was seriously affecting the sale of sets; and was thereby causing the discharg? of employees by the manufacturers and the dealers. The Minister, in reply, stated the Government was not aware that the preseiut position was prejudicially affecting the sale of radio apparatus, as the number of radio licenses was pro gressively increasing and New Zea Land was well forward in the density of radio licenses per head of the popu lation t The Government’s policy regarding broadcasting was laid down in the Broadcasting Act, which placed broadcasting in New Zealand on a national basis, controlled by the Board. ALL BLACK BROADCASTS. Next' Sunday, Station IYA, at 9 a.m., broadcasts an account of the first match of the A’l Blacks against Cornwall at Devonport. At 6.30 p.m.- on Sunday, i't is expected a comment on the match will be -sent out from Daventry. On Friday, 20th inst., at 6.10 p.m., IYA will re-broadcast the Da ventry comment on the All Black’s seconj game against Midland Counties. All main New Zealand stations will fully broadcast' the Tests