THE BROADCASTING SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23595, 3 September 1938, Page 24

THE BROADCASTING SERVICE

ro rut: editoii Sir, —Your correspondent "Another Listener " is to be congratulated on the one-eyedness attained in his letter appearing in this morning's Daily Times. His opinion, which he appears to think is shared by every,other listener, is that the only programmes worth listening to are those of the commercial stations. He states that listeners want enertainment (whatever he means by that word) not education. So do children, but they need schooling all the same to appreciate the higher things of life. In my opinion, the person who cannot appreciate the music of the masters, as provided by 4YA and 4YO during the classical sessions, but wants to hear the entire time nothing but the cheapest of radio fare, whether it be jazz or farce, as broadcast by 4ZB, for example, has not yet completed his schooling, and is in the same street as a person preferring " comic cuts " to literature or respectable novels. Of course, he is entitled to his opinion and prsference, but why cannot he tune in the ZB's and leave the YA's to those who do like a better class of music? What a mercy your correspondent is not controlling broadcasting or some of us v/ould not bother renewing our licences! There would be nothing but swing music and " Easy Aces." morning, noon, and night. One thing mor - : "Another Listener" asks what Professor Shelley has done with the big sum of money collected. Well, some of it. I noticed, was used to finance the ooening of the commercial stations, and but for their extravagant expenditure. largely as regards staffing with the cheap-jack, soap-box kind of announcing with which he appears so enamoured, might have been repaid.—l am. etc.. Yet Another Listener. Dunedin. September 1.