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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 2. 1966.

Radio varsity far off

Radio varsity far off

New ZealanD universities may yet gain radio time, but the situation is indefinite.

The Victoria University Council last April resolved in favour of an NZBC-instituted weekly half-hour for university news, in the national programme.

This resolution sought the support of the other universities for the introduction of the service.

The NZBC recently replied to the Victoria council that they are always very glad to consider items of university news for inclusion in general news bulletins. At the same time they queried whether listeners as a whole would regard the institution of University news service on the national network as a programme of general interest.

Already the NZBC says, there are mounting requests from the public to have the number of general talks sessions (e.g. "Looking at Ourselves" and "Lookout") reduced.

For these the corporation draws nearly half of its speakers from university staff. The NZBC states that they prefer to avoid the introduction of regular services and that they already have many informal contacts with university people from whom they obtain information for news broadcasts on activities in the universities. The corporation has suggested, however, that if any university wishes to arrange for one particular staff member to establish a liaison with the local NZBC, it would be happy to broadcast any material with a wide enough public appeal.

What further action may follow is not clear. Attempts to maintain a regular university feature on station 2ZA Palmerston North have failed.

Student interest in operating university radio stations appears to have gone, and the universities are now concentrating on improving the admittedly good NZBC-university relations.