Apex Car Rentals Joins Campaign
Apex Rentals Cars, New Zealand's largest independently owned car hire company, has joined the Kiwi Radio Campaign as a sponsor. Their supply of a rental car allows the campaign 'to take the scenic route with New Zealand Car Rental' and visit towns, cities and out of the way localities around the country collecting radio memorabilia, recording oral histories... > read more
From David's Desk
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June 2007 Reunion at the Southampton Yacht Club.
L-R: Bill Reis,
Bernard Blakemore and Eric Hitchcock
© Eric Hitchcock Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation.
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February 24 2008
Radio SEAC Ceylon
We recently received a wonderful publication from Eric Hitchcock of
the UK. The background is the intense effort made by Lord Mountbatten
to improve the welfare of British and Allied troops in South East
Asia, the 'Forgotten Army' as they were sometimes called.
> read more
A Reception That Was Different
From The N.Z. Radio Record and Electric Home Journal,
May 16, 1930
When His Excellency, the Governor-General, spoke in Wellington Town Hall on the occasion of the reception accorded to him, he was heard far afield in North America. Listeners in the Central States and in the States on the Pacific Coast, heard him.
North Dakota received 2YA's transmission on that occasion particularly well. The furthest inland province in Canada to report having heard the Governor-General is Saskatchewan.
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Atwater Kent Ad, a typical home radio set
© NZ Radio Record & Electric Home Journal 1930,
Radio Heritage Foundation
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Australia Radio Dial 1931
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Sun & Surf girl, Australian Travel Poster 1931
© Josef Lebovic Gallery
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Little more than a decade after the end of WWI in 1918, some 6.5m Australians in all states could listen to music, sports commentaries and results and 'educational' talks on a wide variety of subjects from the newly emerging entertainment medium of radio.
In 1931, Australia was still in the grip of a global economic depression with almost 30% unemployment. The Sydney Harbor Bridge was under construction. The first airmail service between Australia and England was in the future, and 'talking' pictures relatively new.
> read more
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Sir Edmund Hillary 1YA
Soon after the return home of the successful Everest Expedition in
1953, George Lowe and Edmund Hillary broadcast to New Zealand
from the studios of 1YA Auckland...
> read more
Radio Pasifik Nauru Triple 9 FM
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A Staffer at Radio Pasifik Nauru on air |
The Pacific's newest radio station promises to assist USP Nauru students and their community with a blend of modern technology and traditional broadcast media.
Radio Pasifik Nauru, Triple 9 FM, began broadcasting on 2 April. It is a sister station to USP's main student and community radio station, Radio Pasifik, Triple 8 FM, located at the Laucala Campus in Suva, Fiji.
> read more
Samoan Radio Sale Threatens Public Radio Future
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Samoa Broadcasting Corporation logo
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It's unusual for a public radio and TV broadcaster to be sold, but that's what's happening this year in Samoa.
The old 2AP, more recently known as the SBC, is up for sale in its 60th anniversary year.
Two local companies [Radio Polynesia and Samoa Quality Broadcasters] have been in the running to take control of SBC1 on AM and FM, SBC2 on AM and SBC-TV.
> read more
California Radio Dial 1928
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California Winter Outings, 1927-28 Season.
© Jim Heimann Collection in 'California Here I Come' by Taschen
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by David Ricquish
It's hard to imagine that within living memory, California once had only a little over 50 radio stations on the air. There was no FM radio and TV was also in the future. Hollywood had just introduced 'The Talkies', movies with sound. That's California in 1928, when the population of the San Francisco-Bay area was about 1.5m and that of greater Los Angeles only 2m.
The radio dial stopped at 1500 AM, there were no radio stations broadcasting north of San Francisco and only one station was on the air in the state capitol
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Shanghai Radio Dial 1941
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XMHA listener card issued in 1933.
© Eric Shackle Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation
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In July 1940, TIME magazine featured a story about Carroll Duard Alcott, an American who broadcast from Shanghai radio station XMHA. The story captures the intrigue then swirling around Shanghai, a series of international zones surrounded by civil war torn China, in turn enmeshed with Japanese occupation and with Europe at war.
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Column: Wavescan
Radio Broadcasting in Independent Borneo – Brunei
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Radio Brunei listener card 1967.
© G Kock Collection, filatelia.fi
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The history of the independent enclave on the northwestern edge of the island of Borneo, Brunei, goes way back more than two and a half centuries to the time in the 700s BC when migrant tribes from Vietnam left their ancestral homes and wandered across ocean and island until they came to the island that we know now as Borneo. More than a thousand years later... > read more
Column: Wavescan
American Radio Stations in Australia – VLC Shepparton
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VLC Listener Confirmation Card 1947
© Cleve Costello Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation
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...almost one dozen American radio stations have been established in Australia over the past half century. The first of this slew of interesting and sometimes unusual stations was installed in a country area in Victoria mid-century. It was a shortwave unit and it carried specific programming on relay from the United States beamed to the Philippines... > read more
New Radio Heritage Partner
PC WIZ 2U
We choose to use Wellington [NZ] based PC Wiz 2U for our computer
hardware, software consultancy and trouble shooting. Chief Wiz [Gordon
Shailer] and his team do Home Calls for Computers to deliver on their
promise 'We come to your Home or Office and take care of all your Computer
Problems'.
Look for a local PC Wiz coming to your location. Call 0800 PC WIZ 2U [0800 729 492] in New Zealand. > read more
Silver Memories
From: UQ News Online
University of Queensland researchers from the Australasian Centre on Ageing and 4MBS Classic FM are collaborating to develop a new radio service specifically for older Australians.
Funded by a grant from the Wicking Trust, administered by ANZ Trustees, the new service will address the needs of older socially and emotionally isolated Australians including those living in Residential Care facilities.
> read more
Column by Adrian Petersen
CBS on the Air Shortwave from Philadelphia
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WCAU Tower 1944.
© Popular Science Mechanical Encyclopedia March 1944
via hawkins.pair.com
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During the radio era before World War 2, there was quite a movement here in the United States, and in other countries throughout the world also, to establish shortwave relay stations in an endeavor to give wider broadcast coverage. At the time, television was a concept and not a reality, and FM radio was still a distant dream. The mediumwave band was not overcrowded though the mediumwave signal generally gave only local coverage. However, shortwave transmissions could give wide area coverage within the country, and even international coverage on a much wider scale. > read more
Kiwi Radio Campaign
Our new Kiwi Radio Campaign is heading your way!
In the coming weeks, we'll be telling you how you can get involved with a new nationwide campaign that will soon start rolling out across New Zealand.
First up, there's a personal invitation to you to get involved, and you can also sign up to support the campaign today! Read 'How to Get Involved' for some easy and fun things you can do right now!
To help jog your memories, we've added the NZ Radio Dial 1978 - a baby boomer creates Generation X flashback and a look at what the baby boomers grandparents were listening to along the NZ Radio Dial 1931. Amongst other things, prompts for those Short Term Kiwi Radio Memories from the 1970's and 80's as Generation X moved out of play school and into their world of radio.
Stay tuned for more!
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WVTW Peleliu is 'ON THE AIR'
Donald B Dunwoody of San Francsico, CA at the piano as the
'GIverines' go live on air in the studios of Armed Forces Radio
Station WVTW on Peleliu in the Palau District, Caroline Islands in
1945... > read more
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