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Nov 29, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
The National Communications Network CEO visited Berbice last Sunday (22-11-09) to host a live call-in programme to discuss NCN Berbice with the general public.
Well, in fact, the greater part of the programme was about discussing Radio’s Needy Children’s Fund and Red House in Georgetown.
The regular promises for improved services in radio and television were made by the individual, and then there were the telephone calls.
There were about five or six telephone calls on the programme; whereby 90% of the callers congratulated the entity for its work in Berbice.
I wanted to get on to the programme to say my bit — to tell it like it is — however, I was strangely outwitted and outnumbered by the “positive” callers. Five positive telephone calls about the entity, though, are not indicative of the views of the entire Berbice, as others would like to make it appear.
Just imagine the individual (CEO) telling Berbicians that NCN has to cover the government more than the opposition because the U.S. media and media in other democracies always give more airtime to covering government and their issues. Berbicians are not idiots! Who is he fooling?
So tell me, is it a coincidence that Leon Suseran writes about bringing back the Shortwave signals for our brothers and sisters in the interior locations and a few weeks later, the newspapers report that Shortwave is back up and running?
But most disturbingly, I know NCN Radio (especially 98.1 FM) has bills to pay, but can they at least structure the playing of commercials during the evening periods, and during programmes aired on Mondays, Tuesdays and even Friday nights? What a poor display of a radio station. We have announcers just ranting on one thing over and over and over.
Monday and Friday night Moods have become a talk-session with and about the apparent sponsors of that programme. If four or five songs are played in that 8-9pm hour, listeners are lucky. It’s just appalling. If people wanted talk-radio, they’d tune in to some other broadcast, maybe online.
But this is NCN. You can complain and complain and still complain about certain things and nothing would change! Because the politics is behind the running and operation of this entity, good cannot and will never come.
Leon Suseran
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