POLITICAL SPEECHES
NOT WANTED BY LISTENER S-IN. POLICY OF BOARD. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. “Listeners do not want to hear poli tics over the air. Fully fio per cent, of them would turn on to some other sta tion if a political speech were being broadcast,” said Air C. R. Russell, the Canterbury representative on the Advisory Council of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, iu voicing opposition to the claims of Air IT. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, in liis recent speech in Dunedin, that controversial speeches should be allowed to be broadcast.
Mr Russell siiid Hull parly politics hart no place in tin* radio. The altitude of the Broadcasting Board had. already boon clearly defined. Listeners hart their newspapers, which reported speeches, and if they were interest.',l they could easily read them. The subject might he raised at a mooting of the Advisory Council which was to be held in Wellington on Wednesday, but he did not think the council would be in favour of broadcasting controversial speeches.
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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1933, Page 8
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