RADIO NOTES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12391, 10 July 1933, Page 2

RADIO NOTES

EXTENDED HOURS

The extended Sunday broadcasthours are certainly ail improvement. The stations now come on the air at 9 a.in. and close down again at 11 a.m., returning to the air at 1 p.m. instead of 2 p.m. as previously. The Broadcasting Board is to be commended on this step. The next suggestion which might be brought to the notice of the board is the broadcasting of Monday morning’s programme on Saturday morning, or. in other words, transferring the broadcasting hours from Monday morning to Saturday morning. Children are home from school on Saturday mornings and parents would be glad of something to interest them, and the absence of a Monday morning programme would not be noticeable as most- mothers are too busy washing to bother about the radio. * RADIO AND ADVERTISING. During a recent community singing broadcast by 2YA, says a Rotorua, writer, a statement was made that a ludv taking part was a well-known writer. A book she had written was not out of the hands of the publisher and the first edition was due in New Zealand the next day, etc. If such a glaring case of advertising i.s allowed to come over the air from a YA station, continues the Rotorua scribe, surely a little latitude could be allowed the B stations. EMPIRE DAY DINNER. The scene of the Sydney dinner from which the Southern Seas broadcast was transmitted was filmed, and has already been shown in Wellington. The film records not only the local speeches, hut those of other prominent persons from other parts of the Empire, and it also shows the big orchestra, and the massed Choirs contributing their parts from the Sydney University Hall. PATENT RIGHTS. Quite a favourable financial situation to the Broadcasting Board should arise from its decision not to pay the) 3s royalty for patent rights on every listening set in New Zealand. When this royalty was first claimed some years ago. during the period of company control, the'Government undertook its payment from the 5s deducted for administration purposes from every licence fee. It would appear that since the hoard has taken charge, this royalty burden has been borne by it, since it is the board which has declined to make further payments. This should free at least £12.000 for a purpose where it is most urgently needed—programme improvement.