Sweet reason
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More than 95 per cent, of New Guineans surveyed by the Papua-New Guinea Administra tion in the Madang district in an effort to find out something about their preferences in radio programmes said they wanted to hear women announcers on the air.
Their comments, in Pidgin English, ranged from Nek bilong meri i swit tru (“a woman’s voice is very sweet”) to Toktok bilong meri i isi, toktok bilong man in strongpela tumus (“women’s talk is easy to listen to, man’s talk is too harsh”.) As a result, the Administra tion is going to make greater efforts to introduce women into its broadcasting field.
Madang will have its own government radio station this year. The Morobe district will also get one. There are no commercial stations in P-NG.