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"Connecting radio, popular culture, history and heritage"
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Princess Elizabeth was on holiday visiting Kenya in central Africa when news broke
that her father, King George VI had died, and she assumed the throne on February 6 1952.
Her coronation as Queen Elizabeth II took place the following year, 1953.
ZL6RWC Rugby World Cup RadioCounting Down to 100 Years of Popular Kiwi Radio 1921-2021
Calling all radio/rugby fansMELISSA KINEALY Papakura Radio Club members will be making contact with people from all around the world during the Rugby World Cup. But they won't be meeting them face-to-face. Instead they'll be using a special call sign – ZL6RWC – from September 1 to October 31.
"We expect to have it on air on two or three bands every day. It will be swamped." He applied to the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters for a call sign especially for the Rugby World Cup. The club's usual callsign is ZL1VK.
But club members won't be having lengthy banter with contacts. Most communication
is just an exchange of call signs, he says.
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4IP listener card © Cleve Costello Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation |
The transmitter operates on a frequency of 1440 Kc’s with an aerial power of 200 watts.
Programmes are radiated daily from 6.30 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. Broadcasting activities are
handled by a competent staff, many with years of engineering, executive and writing
experience, and all with good educational backgrounds.
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2QN is situated in the heart of the fertile and wealthy Riverina district of N.S.W. Its signal is heard far afield where the popularity of its programmes is reflected in the large mail which flows into the station every day.
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2MW, owned and operated by the Tweed Radio & Broadcasting Coy. Pty. Ltd., has come a long way since the pre-war days of 37, 38 and 39.
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2MW Murwillumbah sent this card to a New Zealand listener around 1949 © Cleve Costello Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation |
Owing allegiance to no network, 2MW takes pride in being an independent unit in one of the
richest districts in Australia...
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The original 3BA Ballarat logo as seen on this letterhead detail from 1935 © Eric Shackle Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation |
Since commencing operations in July 1930, “The Voice of the Garden City” - 3BA Ballarat - has
progressed in every phase of broadcasting. Itself a city of over 40,000 inhabitants and over
400 factories, Ballarat is Victoria’s most productive and thickly populated area outside
Melbourne. 3BA services 19 per cent. of the population of Victoria other than Melbourne,
and a district producing 29 per cent. of the State’s wealth in 8 main primary products...
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2KM "The Macleay River Station' sent this card to a listener in
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This station is operated by Radio Kempsey Limited, Head Office, Hosking House, Hosking Place, Sydney.
The Studio and Transmitter are at 61 Belgrave Street, Kempsey; Licensed and operating power, 500 watts;
wavelength, 306 metres; Frequency 980 Kilocycles...
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This is the Army! On 20th January 1945, Colonel Melville C. Robinson, then commanding officer of Southern India Air Depot, conceived the idea of installing a radio station at this base. In the Army, thoughts - at least, the thoughts of a commanding officer - quickly lead to action. The wireless hummed with an exchange of messages while technicians and experts converged on Bangalore and planes transported equipment. Then, on the twenty-ninth of January, for the first time over the air were heard the words “This is Radio Station VU2ZP in Bangalore beginning its regular schedule of daily broadcast…” These words were spoken by Burt Urdank, the station’s first announcer, until that instant a motor pool dispatcher. And so was a radio station born. The initial staff consisted of three men: the base adjutant, Lt. Richard Gajewski ; Urdank ; and a former personnel clerk, Art Tracy. But like Topsy, the staff “just growed” until, in November, nine men were engaged in the turning of dials, repairing of equipment, writing of scripts, programming, newscasting, announcing - all dedicated to the improvement, of our precocious war baby...
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In 1946, British announcer Peter Knowlden introduced radio programs to British Commonwealth Occupation Forces at Miho Airfield in Japan with the words ‘This is Station WLKT Miho operating on 14-40 kilocycles and 2-oh-8 metres’ and played Eric Coates’ “London Again” suite as his nightly signature tune.
His audience included Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Indian Air Force personnel, and he broadcast from a mobile radio station that was originally built in Melbourne, Australia for the AAAS – Australian Army Amenities Service – and had been allocated the call sign 9AM.
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WLKT broadcast from a mobile truck studio, like this one which later became the key AAAS station WLKS in Kure |
Peter says “I have no idea how that truck got to Miho, the roads were awful, but the railway line was excellent, so maybe it came that way.”
How did a British serviceman become the DJ on an Australian controlled radio station with
an American call sign operating in Japan?...
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"97FM keeps us entertained at work and in the bar in the evenings" reports a winter staff member at the New Zealand Antarctic base writing on a recent blog for the UK Natural History Museum.
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Melvin Bok was born in China in 1912 and lived in Peking.
Melvin developed an interest in radio from an early age. When he was only thirteen, he left school for a year to join a company run by an American in Peking named Warren E. Stimson. Stimson was an agent for the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company and also imported Crossly radios. Another role Stimson undertook was as a news agent listening to broadcasts in Morse code from the US using long-wave, there being no short-wave technology at the time. After the year was up, Melvin, who had by then learned Morse code, returned to school and started to make various ‘radio gadgets’, as he puts it, in his free time.
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Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company issued these original stock shares |
On completing his schooling in 1932, Melvin joined the AIU insurance group in Peking. Melvin admits
that he was less than enthusiastic about working as an insurance agent but he at least developed
some useful contacts. He continued to expand his knowledge of radios and, soon after joining the
company, built his first short-wave transceiver and became an avid radio ‘ham’.
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Miss PeLung, youthful star at radio station XHHS, Shanghai. Although slow to accept radio as a popular pastime, China now is making rapid strides in that direction. |
From bustling Shanghai and fast-growing Nanking near the eastern coast, to Chengtu in
remote Szechuan province, from the far reaches of Hopei province in the north to Yunnan
in the extreme southwest, countless receivers blare forth a cacophony of western and
Chinese music, announcements, speeches. Out of the ether to hundreds of middle schools
come the lessons and exhortations of mass-education broadcasts. In shops and homes are
heard, in rapid succession, the traditional story-tellers of old Cathay and the swing music
of American jazz bands from the swank hotels and cabarets of Shanghai. And once a month,
to crowds reminiscent of World Series listeners in America come the stentorian voices of
announcers reciting the lucky numbers of the National Lottery.
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3GL is owned and operated by the Geelong Advertiser, Victoria’s oldest morning journal, founded by John Pascoe Faulkner in 1840.
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3GL issued this plain bold QSL to confirm reception in 1949 © Cleve Costello Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation |
3GL commenced operations in November, 1931, being the second country
station established in Victoria. It is now in its fifteenth year of
operation. The power is 500 watts, its frequency 1350K.C. (222 metres).
It gives continuous service - Monday to Saturday from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.,
and on Sunday 8 a.m. to 10.15 p.m.
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Station 2KA first went on the air on September 7th, 1935 with studios and transmitter at Medlow Bath. Early in 1937 the studios were established in the main street of Katoomba.
The present transmitter with its giant twin steel towers, the tops of which are over 3,000 feet above sea level, was erected in 1938. The transmitter, which is capable of putting 2,000 watts into the aerial, was built for 2KA by Amalgamated Wireless. The station was granted an increase to its present aerial power of 1,000 watts in June, 1938, and since that time excellent response has been received from most parts of the State. Mail arrives regularly from listeners outside the 50 mile radius.
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2KA issued this listener confirmation in 1944 © Keith Robinson Collection, Radio Heritage Foundation |
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Station 2GF commenced operations on December 15th, 1937. It transmits on a Wave Length
of 248 Metres (1210 K.C.’s). 2GF has made continual progress, and all of the best Shows
are heard from this Station, either on Relay or Transcription. The Station takes a very
active part in local affairs and renders many services to the community. It is situated
in one of the wealthiest areas of the North Coast of New South Wales, and has become an
integral part of the community life in Grafton and District.
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Misamari Air Force Base with airfield tower, 1944 © Walt Newman at www.thebicyclingguitarist.net |
Sgt. Fishman of 1327 BU Hopes for All-India Coverage
1327 BU, ASSAM - A 50-watt transmitter can’t quite compare with NBC or CBS but it is definitely better than none.
Anyway, that’s the opinion of the founder and program director of radio station VU2ZS,
Sgt. Lawrence J. Fishman, and his listeners. And, if ambition is any indication of the
future, the present 20-mile radius of the station someday will grow to an India-wide coverage.
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VU2ZP Bangalore staff used this business card in 1945 © Arthur J Tracy Collection |
By SGT. CHARLES KELLOGG Roundup Assistant Editor
Late in the evening of December 9, a khaki-clad GI leaned close to a microphone in what had once been an unused warehouse on the giant Southern India Air Depot of the USAAF in Bangalore and said simply: “This is VU2ZP, your Armed Forces radio station, signing off the air for the last time.”
With those words there came to an end broadcasting activities which started
on January 29, only nine days after Col. Melville C. Robinson, the commanding
officer of Southern India Air Depot, made known to AFR the need for a radio
station at the sprawling air base, located in the south central part of India.
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On JANUARY 20, 1945, Colonel Melville C. Robinson, then commanding officer of the Southern India Air Depot at Bangalore, conceived the idea of installing a radio station at that base. The wireless hummed with an exchange of messages while technicians and experts converged on Bangalore and planes transported equipment.
Then on January 29th, for the first time over the air were heard the words, “This is Radio Station VU2ZP in Bangalore beginning its regular schedule of daily broadcasts...”. These words were spoken by Burt Urdank, the station’s first announcer, until that instant a motor pool dispatcher. And so a radio station was born.
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The broadcast tower of VU2ZP Bangalore, India |
The initial staff consisted of three men: the base adjutant, Lt. Richard Gajewski;
Urdank; and a former personnel clerk, Art Tracy. But like Topsy, the staff “just growed”
until in November nine men were engaged in the turning of dials, repairing of equipment,
writing of scripts, programming, newscast-ing announcing - all dedicated to the
improvement of the precocious war baby.
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By SGT. ART HEENAN Roundup Staff Writer
Radio executive and advertising agencies need have few worries that when the millions of overseas servicemen return home they will disgustedly turn off commercial plugs, with the comment that they have grown used to hearing the best of programs without having to listen to an announcer tell of the benefits of Nine Star Headache tablets.
At least that is the opinion of Theater Radio Officer Lt. Robert F. Black, who heads
the India-Burma network of the U.S. Armed Forces Radio stations.
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Roundup Staff Article
BHAMO - Our G.I. radio stations in this Theater are doing an exceedingly professional job. In Delhi, Calcutta, Kandy, Bangalore, Ramgarh, Agra, Ledo, Shingbwiyang, Tezpur, Jorhat, Gaya, Chabua, Karachi, Myitkyina and Bhamo, American air waves are carrying American programs to American troops.
According to broadcasting experts with whom I have talked, at least three of these stations could
prosper in the States as commercial enterprises on the basis of their entertainment value.
One of them is our most forward station, WOTO, in the heart of North Burma.
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By SGT. GEORGE GINGELL
The great pulse of the Ledo Road has slowed down. The thousands of men and machines that manned the incredible supply line to China have gone. The pipeline is no more and the jungle is fast creeping in along the way that once swarmed with platoons, companies and battalions of Service Troops. Among the landmarks to disappear in the wake of departing men were the Armed Forces Radio Stations.
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This is part of the staff which once operated VU2ZN at Ledo. Left to right are S/Sgt. George Gingell, Lt. L. M. George and T/3 Walter Flint, all three now at VU2ZY in New Delhi, and S/Sgt, Rob Spiros, now en route to the U.S |
Since 1944, troops along the road had been provided
with Stateside radio entertainment by a chain of broadcasting
stations known as the India-Burma Network.
Men in Chabua, Shinghwiyang, Myitkyina, Ledo and
Bhamo were entertained from early morning until late
night by the finest radio programs in the world.
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Julia Proverbs - Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:49
Fifty years ago commercial radio came to Tauranga. Julia Proverbs looks at the evolution of Classic Hits - what has changed and what remains the same.
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Grayson Ottaway (left), Charlie Helliwell and Brian (BK) Kelly ensure music and mirth hit the airwaves at Classic Hits. Photo: Claire Fraser. |
The reception area of The Radio Network in Tauranga is very 2011.
The scarlet rug echoes the red spiral logo on the wall and the black and white retro leather sofas with zebra print cushions look as if they were made exclusively for the derrieres of the rich and famous.
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Anna Bowden - Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:00
There's a new radio station in town. It's just for kids - and it's run by kids.
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Selwyn Ridge Primary technician Nadia Weightman, left, and DJ Brooke McDowall. Picture: Jimmy Joe |
It's Kids on the Ridge FM.
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Kieran Nash - Saturday, March 27, 2010 6:01
Radio enthusiasts are breathing life into a dormant frequency at a Bucklands Beach station. Kieran Nash listens in.
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Ian Walker says reviving the old frequency is like climbing Mt Everest. Picture by Kellie Blizard. |
In a beautiful art deco building overlooking the Hauraki Gulf, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts are reviving a radio frequency that harks back to the days of the Titanic.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 - Kristine Walsh
THIRTEEN months almost to the day since it first went to air, the switch will be pulled on a radio station whose founder had hoped to fill a totally-local niche.
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OVER AND OUT: SwitchFM founder Drew Kirk (above) had "huge dreams" for totally local radio but, without advertising support, has had to pull the plug on his feldgling station. Picture by Paul Rickard |
“It’s pretty gutting but the reality is that we didn’t get the support from businesses that we’d hoped for,” said SwitchFM operator Drew Kirk, who has sold his frequency to national broadcaster The Radio Network.
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SOPHIA DUCKOR-JONES
You do not often hear of a radio station that is also a cafe, but Kelburn businesses Alcove Cafe and HumanFM have been brewing together for more than four years.
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On air: DJ Chris Salter, right, with radio guests, Lizzy Eden, left, and Laura Robinson. |
You do not often hear of a radio station that is also a cafe, but Kelburn businesses Alcove Cafe and HumanFM have been brewing together for more than four years.
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MANGERE LIVE: Dougie Te Moni is setting up a radio station for Mangere and is
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The radio station will hit the airwaves next month, broadcasting from the Mangere Community Development and Cultural Trust building in the town centre.
Dougie Te Moni is working alongside the trust to develop the station which will use FM frequency 88.1.
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A talented group of budding young DJs are living their dream by hosting a radio station.
GO FM, which features on 107.1FM from 3pm to 5pm every day, was started by Daniel and Matthew Tate and has a 10km radius from its studio at Lopdell House in Titirangi.
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AT THE HELM: Volunteer Gayle Cresswell at work at Radio Woodville.
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Two small weatherproof speakers sit atop the tiny station building on Woodville's main street, opposite the town's only money-machine, and the day The Tribune visited we entered to Peter, Paul and Mary's 1963 hit, Blowin' in the Wind.
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RETRO-HEAD: Conor Bragg entertains Kaikoura on the radio each week.
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Butch Bragg has been DJing on the town's radio station, 100.3 Blue FM since 1999, and his son Conor, eight, joined him a year ago to form the retro-heads partnership.
Playing each Saturday from around midday, the duo has attracted quite a following.
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With a turn of the dial, Daphne Kyne's life changed for the better seven years ago.
She discovered Palmerston North's classical musical station The Gramophone Room, owned and operated by John Ward.
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CLASSICAL HERITAGE: Daphne Kyne selects a recording of tragic opera Pia de' Tolomei from the extensive collection of The Gramophone Room radio station, run
by John Ward. "It is just wonderful, it fulfils a need," Mrs Kyne said. |
When Mrs Kyne left war-damaged London in 1952 for a fresh start in New Zealand, she was expecting a few changes, but not a classical music "desert" with practically no classical music broadcast or performed.
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"Good morning Dargaville. This is SOLID FM 107.4 broadcasting from Dargaville Intermediate School."
For two years the students have been spreading their voices like this over the airwaves on what is thought to be one of only two school radio stations in Northland.
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ON THE AIR: From left: Bailey Welsh, Nikau Newman and Maryanne Hodgson at work in the studio at Dargaville Intermediate School. |
We are please to present three new features in our Long Lost Australian Radio Stars series:
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Original 2XL Cooma logo on 1947 listener card |
2XL has progressed a long way since the second Great War started when it was operated largely by a part time staff. The station is owned by Cooma Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. with the following staff...
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4GY is one of Australia’s newest broadcasting stations. It was officially opened on November 3, 1941 - three weeks before the outbreak of the Pacific War, and was therefore available to serve the local community at a time when it was most needed...
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Radio 2WL celebrates its fifteenth anniversary “on the air” in July of this year, 1946. Those fifteen years have seen the birth and growth of a new metropolis, Port Kembla, to-day the third largest investment centre in N.S.W. With it has grown 2WL, now at the height of its persuasiveness and prestige. Behind this statement is a story, for naturally there is a reason for the uninterrupted growth of 2WL...
Station 2GN commenced operation on 25th January, 1932, and transmits on a wave-length of 216 Metres (1390 K/C’s.). Programmes include most of the best Metropolitan shows, either on relay or on disc, and the Station gives an uninterrupted trouble-free service to listeners in Goulburn and District. Station 2GN takes an active part in local civic affairs, and covers all important items of local appeal.
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2DU Dubbo, "The Western Station," operating on 455 metres (Frequency 660 Kc.) and with an aerial power of 200 Watts, commenced transmission on July 3rd, 1936.
Hours of transmission are Mondays to Fridays: 6.45 a.m. - 2 p.m., 5.30 - 10 p.m. Saturdays: 6.45 a.m. - 10 p.m. Sundays: 7.45 a.m. - 3 p.m., 4.30 - 10 p.m. It is hoped shortly to extend the hours to 6.45 a.m. to 10.15 p.m. each day.
The station is owned, controlled and operated by Western Broadcasters Pty. Ltd., with directors W. T. Grant and E. N. Williams.
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2DU Dubbo issued this confirmation of reception in 1945 |
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3TR Sale Early Station Logo 1934 |
The modern studios of 3TR are well equipped and its transmitter is of the latest approved type with a vertical radiator and an elaborate earth system.
At Swan Hill, on the River Murray, is 3SH Northern Victoria, serving the progressive towns of Swan Hill and Kerang and reaching out to the surrounding rich River Murray settlements, the Mallee and across the river into the western Riverina.
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Because of its favourable geographical situation and its modern vertical steel radiator standing 250 feet in height on top of Mount Bainbridge, five miles from Hamilton, which is 1,140 feet above sea level, 3HA covers all western Victoria, the Wimmera and the south east of South Australia.
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3HA Listener Card 1944 |
It is a unit of the Victorian Broadcasting Network (“The Age” Broadcasting Service) and the Macquarie
Network which means that it is included in the most important network features whereby its programmes are
among the best in Australia.
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MAKING WAVES: Tama Ohi FM station manager Keith Moala is keen to reach out to youth and people living with disabilities through a new radio station in Panmure. |
Keith Moala has experienced extraordinary success and travelled the world to learn from experts in his field.
But he says the one thing missing was "being able to work with my own people".
The former telecommunications engineer has now found what he was craving as a presenter for a small Tongan radio station based in a vacant Panmure shopping complex.
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We're delighted to add this introductory feature on European Mediumwave & Longwave Radio History to our online resources.
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Originally prepared by Herman Boel in Flanders [Belgium] over the past decade,
this feature introduces you to a variety of great moments in European
broadcasting history, and includes many audio samples and images.
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Tania Butterfield, Marlborough Express
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Foss Leach has launched Radio Ngakuta Bay 88.4FM as a way of familiarising residents with the local band they should tune into if there is a civil defence emergency. |
The radio band which transmits to Ngakuta Bay and Grove Arm homes was used to relay civil defence information, although it had not been needed yet, Mr Leach said.
"If a civil emergency does happen, people would probably forget the station so I thought why not make it a regular broadcast then people would know exactly what station to tune into," he said.
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One of the most fascinating countries for international shortwave radio listeners continues to be Papua New Guinea... a large archipelago of islands to the immediate north of Australia... mainly because it has some twenty locally operating shortwave radio stations... and also because they seem to operate in a kind of information black hole.
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Radio Milne Bay, Alotau team members Daniel George and Mayambo Peipul © NBC |
Hello, I’m David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International, and today
we’re going to attempt to shed some light on today’s broadcasting scene in Papua New Guinea. It’s
much more than shortwave radio...
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Covering all the North West of Tasmania, these two popular stations operate under one management. They provide a continuous day-time, and a dual night-time transmission.
The principal towns served are Deloraine, Latrobe, Devonport, Ulverstone, Penguin, Burnie, Wynyard, Smithton and Stanley. Primary producers in the adjacent country are specially catered for, and the control of primary produce delivery is part of these stations’ activities.
Several important factories operate in the district served including the Ovaltine Factory,
Pulp and Paper Mills, Canning Factories, Dehydration Plants, Foundries and Railway workshops.
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In its fourteen years of existence, the 5AD Kangaroo Club has enrolled 65,000 young members (‘KANGAS’)
from all over Australia. Through its efforts on behalf of charitable organisations over Ł30,000 has
been raised. Much of this was received during frequent concert tours in country districts,
and in every case, the money was given to institutions in the locality.
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Station 4SB is controlled by the South Burnett Broadcasting Co. Ltd. The studio is in Alfred Street, Kingaroy.
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Hours of Broadcasting: Monday to Saturday 6 am, to 11 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m. to 10.30 p.m.. Wave-length: 283 metres.
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The vast area of Queensland, extending between Quilpie and Normanton and from Springsure to Camooweal is covered by the Central Queensland station, 4LG, which radiates a programme from Longreach, the geographical centre of the State. The towns of Blackall, Barcaldine, Windorah, Winton, Aramac, Tambo, Richmond, Hughenden, Cloncurry, Mt. Isa, Burketown, Charters Towers, Clermont and Jundah are all in the 4LG range.
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This huge coverage may at first seem impossible, but the acid test of its accuracy lies in the fact that
businesses from each of these centres, as well as from many smaller ones, use 4LG as a medium for their
programmes. Listener mail from these places pours into 4LG in a regular stream. The great coverage of
this 500 watt station is made possible by the favourable ground formation of the area, together with the
fact that the nearest broadcasting station is over 300 miles away.
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You would have to say Jayden Barrie has a passion for radio.
There's no denying his keenness to make it on the airwaves because the Wanganui teenager has just launched his own station.
Swiss Mixx 106.9FM broadcasts from the Barrie home in Gonville and, while non-commercial at this stage, it is set up to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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ON AIR: Jayden Barrie broadcasting from his bedroom in Gonville.
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As well as help from family and friends, it has cost the Cullinane College student $2000 of his own money to buy the a transmitter and mixer, while his mum Frances' boss chipped in with an old but workable computer.
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Cherie Taylor, Rotorua Daily Post
Budding young radio announcers are making themselves heard on the airwaves in Mamaku.
The rural area's school has launched a new radio station, Mamaku 88.4FM, which is run by Year 5 and 6 students, providing a live show from 9am to 3pm daily with pre-recorded items running through the night.
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Mamaku School student radio DJ Elaine Henneveld, 10, said the station was awesome.
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Ellen Irvine, Bay of Plenty Times
Jake Townsend has a voice for radio and he's only 14.
The Mount Maunganui College schoolboy started his own radio station, BOLT FM this year.
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And while most children will spend the school holidays relaxing with their mates, Jake and his friend Hayden Gies, 13, are looking forward to two weeks of filling the Papamoa airwaves.
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Waikato Times
A gymnasium in a suburban Hamilton shopping centre is not the sort of place you expect to find a low-power FM broadcasting strictly electronic dance music.
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But in a couple of offices at Flagstaff's TLC Gym is Fevah FM, the brainchild of hard dance fan Mandy Seuss-Ryan, who along with husband Bradley Ryan stumped up with $25,000 to launch the broadcaster last year. The station's name is taken from the dance music industry firm that holds a 25 per cent share in the company running the broadcaster, which beams out across Hamilton on the 88.3FM frequency.
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Central District Times
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BROADCASTING: The production team, from left, Max Fage, Nathan Chaney, Beau Walker,
drian Stratton, Emma McCaughan, Nicola-Mary Geraghty, and Shayleigh Horton.
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Taihape Area School radio station 88.1FM has added to its programming by broadcasting the school's weekly newsletter at 2pm and 5pm, Wednesday to Sunday.
The teacher responsible for the radio station, Harry Nichol, said the programme is being created and produced by a team of students from year 9 and 10. On Wednesday mornings, team members take their microphones and interview newsletter contributors, such as teachers, students and support staff.
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Esther Lauaki, Kapi-Mana News
Porirua's Hollah FM has found a new home at Whitireia New Zealand's local campus, providing an outlet for practical radio experience for budding broadcasters.
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Station co-founder La'i Lepou said the Hollah team wanted to leave a legacy in their community.
"We take a lot of students in from all over Porirua and they all love it, which is awesome," she said.
"Our dream for Hollah is to have the radio station grow and not have us be there forever but pass our knowledge on to people."
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Cassandra Pokoney, Southland Times
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Greg Selman, Peter Holmes and Richard Scott of Ifinity FM, Invercargill
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Ifinity FM broadcasts on 87.7FM and will play a variety of music genres targeting youth audiences.
Station co-owner Greg Selman said the idea for the station arose after he returned to Invercargill from Hamilton, where he had been running a radio station, and noticed a gap in the southern market.
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Nicola Williams, Eastern Courier
A uniquely Botany sound is taking to the airwaves.
Botany FM (107.1) is the only radio station to operate out of a shopping centre in Australasia, owner John Lehmann says.
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Daniel Holland, Waikato Times
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The station is relaunching itself as The Yak FM 107.1 today with a new musical lineup.
The student radio station is moving away from its previous focus on rock and is now broadening its range of music.
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