BROADCASTING RECORDS

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18165, 1 November 1930, Page 4

BROADCASTING RECORDS

A STATEMENT DENIED. NO RESTRICTION ON STATIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The statement made to Hon. W. B. Taverner by the executive of the New Zealand Radio Listeners’ League regarding the restrictions on B class stations, which it was stated wmuld have to' cease operation after November 1, as gramophone dealers had been instructed not to give any more records to stations for broadcasting, was referred to the managing director of one of the chief gramophone companies in New Zealand. He stated that the position w*as not at all as suggested by the Radio Listeners’ League. The position was that all gramophone distributing companies had -issued instructions to their dealers that records were not to be supplied to either A or B broadcasting stations unless they are purchased in the ordinary course of business at retail prices. There was, therefore, no intention on the part, of the distributors to interfere in any w'ay with the' broadcasting of records, but it w*as insisted that stations, either A or B, should purchase them. This apparently does not in any way prevent broadcasting stations from operatingon privately-owned records or with records which are provided by the Radio Listeners’ League.