BROADCAST RESTRICTION

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 1 March 1933, Page 3

BROADCAST RESTRICTION

BAN ON USB OF RECORDS. WARNING TO B STATIONS. . (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, Feh. 2S. The headquarters of gramophone companies in Australia through their New Zealand organisations have warned operators of radio B stations against the use of records. The notice to B stations suggests total prohibition, but the Broadcasting Board lias j already negotiated with the record companies and arranged that the restriction shall not affect YA' stations drastically. The action has been taken by all the principal record companies on aecount of the slump in record sales since B stations began operations. The manager of a New Zealand record company allied to one of the largest manufacturing firms in- Australia said to-day that the manner in which records had been broadcast meant that the owner of a radio receiver was virtually the owner of a gramophone without the necessity for buving records. Mi- R„ FI. Nimmo. managing director of B station 2ZW, said he had received a bald notice from three record eomuanies that the transmission of records should cease. ’He hoped negotiations .similar to those of the Broadcasting Board might enable the B stations to enjoy the same privilege as the YA stations, tlf tlie notice from the companies was enforced to the letter it would mean the elimination ot the B stations altogether.