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Kiwis are encouraged to Paint the Town Red to lend a helping hand to sick kids at Starship Hospital this month.
Radio Lollipop's annual November appeal raises money for sick children and their families in hospital. It aims to keep children positive while in hospital through its radio programmes and activities.
Ifinity FM Invercargill Finds Flour PowerRadio station fundraiser tonightGWYNETH HYNDMAN It started with an Xbox, a mixer, a microphone, $1000 in cash, and a leased transmitter above a mate's garage. A year later Ifinity FM director Greg Selman is moving the radio station into the old Fleming and Company flour mill on the corner of Tyne and Conon streets.
A "20 For 10" concert ("20 bands for $10") at the Invercargill Working Men's Club tonight has been organised to pump more money into the project.
Hospital Radio Timaru Finds New HomeHospital Radio forced to shiftHospital Radio has found a new home but is asking for community support to help it continue. The community radio station, that has been broadcasting for 23 years and is run by 14 volunteers, must vacate its studio in the Gardens Block at Timaru Hospital after the building was deemed unsafe.
An engineers' report suggested the possibility of a "catastrophic collapse" in a severe earthquake.
Hospital Radio founder Ron Heney said it was a shame to move.
FM Finds Wings, Goes GlobalAn ailing radio station given $300,000 a year in government funding to play exclusively Kiwi music will bow to commercial reality today and play overseas bands. MediaWorks Radio, which operates the ailing Kiwi FM station, announced yesterday that it would play 40 per cent international music in a bid to boost audience levels. The announcement came the day after a sold-out crowd of 17,000 packed the Wellington waterfront to see 43 New Zealand acts perform at the annual Homegrown festival.
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Melanie Arnost
Once upon a time there was a radio station on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. It was without broadcasters, music, programs or funds. The only inhabitants of the station were old equipment and a lot of dust.
So it stayed until one sunny morning in May when an Australian Volunteer arrived and, equipped with a fantastic station manager and enthusiastic broadcasters, helped transform the station. CRST FM was reborn… and no longer a pumpkin!
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KVZI-FM broadcast at 97.9 FM in the 1970's on Roi-Namur island, near
Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands, then part of the US Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands...
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JO BELWORTHY
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THUMBS-UP: Interns Amanda Southorn, left, Laura Barnaby, Callum Lee and Katia Goodwin give Big River FM and Dargaville the thumbs-up. |
The interns are fresh out of radio school in Tauranga and will spend the next three to six months keeping Kaipara folk entertained and up with the play on what's going on in the region.
Amanda Southorn from Rotorua says she loves it here.
"People warned me I was going to hate it, but I love it, it's completely different."
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YVETTE BATTEN - NORTH TARANAKI MIDWEEK
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Taranaki Access Radio station manager Daniel Keighley. Photo: Yvette Batten/Fairfax NZ |
Since then the station, on which people can hear shows made by community groups, has punched well above its weight when compared with others in New Zealand.
"All of the people who have participated who work for the station feel constantly enlivened," says station manager Daniel Keighley.
"We're all looking to the future and the growth that we see happening with glee."
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NAOMI ARNOLD
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NEW PREMISES: Fresh FM station manager Mike Williams outside the new studios at Founders Heritage Park. Photo: PATRICK HAMILTON |
"I never want to move another radio station as long as I live," station manager Mike Williams says.
It has been a four-month process moving out of Fresh's old site at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. But as soon as the staff started coming down to Founders to settle in it started to feel like home.
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GWYNETH HYNDMAN
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ALL ORIGINALS: Graeme Woller and Liv McBride will host a "no covers" show featuring southern artists on Southland Radio. Photo: JOHN HAWKINS/Fairfax NZ |
Far East duo Liv McBride and Graeme Woller are taking over the airwaves at Radio Southland at 8pm for an hour of "no covers" Southland music.
"It's a nice, sophisticated outlet for musicians around town to get exposure," McBride said yesterday.
"There needs to be something out there dedicated to musicians in Southland."
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LEE-ANNE EDWARDS
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Say what! DJ Ben Bro throws his hands up in shock at hearing that Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development and Youth Affairs, spends $40 million a day meeting the responsibilities of her portfolios. He and fellow DJ Jeremy Hurn interviewed the MP at the launch of Secret Level's radio station, Secret FM. Photo: LEE-ANNE EDWARDS |
Hutt radio listeners will be hearing more from local teens with the launch of youth radio station 107.2 Secret FM.
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CHRISTOPHER MOOR
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On air: Doreen Kelso, right, conducts an interview in the 2ZB studio. |
Forty years ago, the seemingly unflappable Doreen ruled Wellington airwaves on weekday afternoons with her listener-friendly Person to Person talkback show over radio 2ZB.
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MICHAEL FIELD
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GEOFF SINCLAIR: The former school teacher specialised in a folksy, warm kind of talkback that set a benchmark for decades. |
The former school teacher specialised in a folksy, warm kind of talkback that set a benchmark for decades.
He had a strong voice and a great laugh and seemed to find practically anything interesting.
A distinctive looking man, he summed up his style in an autobiography entitled "You Might Be Ugly - But You're Nice!"
He grew up in Auckland's Point Chevalier in a family of 10 that included his more famous brother, historian and academic Sir Keith Sinclair. All his brothers and sisters went into education.
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KERRY MCBRIDE
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Forty years of Wellington radio personalities will converge when a classic station's former crew come together for a long-awaited reunion.
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ANNA PEARSON
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IN TUNE: Mike McElhinney is leaving after 10 years as general manager for The Radio Network. Photo: MARTIN DE RUYTER/FAIRFAX NZ |
He said he was going to have a well-deserved break, "and I have got a few other irons in the fire. The plan is to stay in Nelson and to put some effort into the Nelson Jazz Club."
Mr McElhinney has been the general manager for The Radio Network Nelson for 10 years.
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EMMA DANGERFIELD
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Old and new: The new Blue FM transmitter site on a shelf alongside the old equipment, which sits in the beetroot can. |
Never let it be said Kaikoura does not have its finger on the pulse of technology and progress.
Even Kaikoura-based radio station Blue FM is trying to keep up with the times.
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KATARINA FILIPE
An online radio station started by teenagers for teenagers is gaining fans in South Canterbury.
Roncalli College's Jordan Diamond, 16, and Mountainview High School's Bailey Dunnage, 15, have been running So Dope FM for the past six months.
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Hard at work: Jordan Diamond, left, and Bailey Dunnage in their home studios where they broadcast their online radio station, So Dope FM. |
Jordan started it after his mum suggested it might be a good idea, as the region did not have a radio station for teens. Bailey joined the team three months ago and since then the pair have been broadcasting their own shows, a wide range of music and running online competitions.
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ANDREA O'NEIL
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FOREIGN FREQUENCY: Ex-pat Texan Patrick Brennan broadcasts his radio station AndHow.FM to tens of thousands of international listeners from his home studio in Papakowhai. Photo: Andrea O'Neil |
AndHow.FM broadcasts to 20,000 international listeners a month online, and 12,000 people can pick up its FM signal in Titahi Bay, Plimmerton, Mana, Camborne, Papakowhai and Pauatahanui.
It's the only station in New Zealand playing what Americans call AAA music - Adult Album Alternative, or "the new, hot stuff" as AndHow.FM's owner Patrick Brennan puts it.
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KATE SAUNDERS
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Mike Dunn is the new sales manager at The Most FM. Photo: JONATHAN CAMERON |
The 45-year-old has taken over from well-known Taranaki personality Dave Haskell at the helm of the independent radio station, The Most FM.
A self-confessed music nut, Mr Dunn said the opportunity was too good to let pass.
"I'm old enough to realise you need to have fun in your workplace. I didn't want to wake up and be 60 and realise I hadn't had any fun in the last 15 years," he said of his new role.
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PIERS FULLER
Cackling crones and other Shakespearean characters were bought to life with the help of Arrow FM to make a radio show that is now a finalist in the New Zealand Radio Awards.
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RADIO TALENT: Front row from left: Kitty Riach, 10, of Solway; Lily Jones, 11, of Opaki Primary School. Middle row from left: Callum Riach, 12, and Jean Campbell, 11, of Masterton Intermediate School; Jessie Parker, 11, of Hadlow; Lily Lewis, 10, and Melissa Rolls, 10, of Lakeview School and Maggie White, 10, of Fernridge School. Back row from left: Sam Johnill of Tinui School; Judah Dabora, 11, of Hadlow and Ruby Gaffney of Opaki School. Photo: PIERS FULLER |
Students of the One Day Centre for gifted Wairarapa kids got together with Arrow FM manager and noted thespian Michael Wilson last year to tackle some Shakespeare. The educational sessions evolved into creating radio plays.
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From his Dunedin man-cave Dave Ure broadcasts to the world, but he needs help from a higher place so more locals can tune in to his radio station.
Frustrated at not being able to find a locally-based rock radio station, the 42-year-old decided to do the next big thing - start his own.
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OLIVIA WANNAN
The "Big kid" of Maori language radio stations is turning 25 and the party is about to start.
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Wellington's Te Upoko o Te Ika 1161AM, the oldest Maori radio station in the country, had its first broadcast on May 4, 1987.
A week of on-air and off-air celebrations will begin later this month...
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In 1937, the move from private radio to state regulated radio in New Zealand was gathering pace with the creation of a National Commercial Broadcasting Service now competing directly with the National Broadcasting Service.
The latter indulged in a well planned ambush of the opening of 2ZB [NCBS] on April 28 1937 by bringing 2YD on the air three days earlier – it was commercial in everything except commercials.
It even caught the radio press by surprise, and this is how the ‘Radio Record’ weekly reported the arrival of 2YD on 990kc the following week:
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Resourceful listeners were monitoring the dial however, and one was enterprising
enough to secure a written confirmation of the first day of broadcast of 2YD...
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On April 28 1937, radio station 2ZB of the National Commercial Broadcasting Service began broadcasting to
Wellington from atop Mt Victoria, overlooking New Zealand’s capital city. The studios were located in the
Hope Gibbons Building on Dixon Street. The frequency was 1120kc on the medium wave dial...
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7K2BLP Moriyuki Furuya, Yokohama |
Quartz Hill Amateur Radio Station ZL6QH was based at an old short wave receiving station located about 30 minutes drive from central Wellington, New Zealand.
With a wide variety of aerials stretching across the hills of an exposed farm site overlooking the wild seas of Cook Strait, the site offered amateur radio operators a unique operations platform and a ZL contact eagerly sought after by thousands of amateurs around the world.
Thousands of the QSL cards received from these stations over the years have been preserved, and we're pleased to continue a new series featuring some of these cards.
Many amateur radio operators include entertaining art work on their personal QSL cards, and
here are some of the cartoon style characters featuring on a selection of such cards
from Japan.
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UA3VSX Igor A Blokhin, Vladimir, Russia |
In the first of this new series, amateur radio stations from around the world that have worked
ZL2ADN Palmerston North, New Zealand, are featured.
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It’s around 90 years ago that the first Australian radio stations began broadcasting to a few enthusiastic early adopters of the new technology called wireless, and this is the kind of music that was popular at the time.
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Hello, I'm David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International and
that was Louise Homfrey with her hit from 1927, "There's a Trick in Pickin' A Chick Chick
Chicken". Louise was born in New Zealand and actually christened with the name Hinemoa...
and started broadcasting in 1926 from Sydney radio station 2BL [which at that time was owned
by Sydney Broadcasters Limited].
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Queen Elizabeth II broadcasting to the British Commonwealth from the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in Auckland, Christmas 1953 |
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.
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MELISSA 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.
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"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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Station 4IP is owned and operated by the Ipswich Broadcasting Company Pty. Ltd. This up-to-date broadcaster was officially opened in September, 1935, and since its inception has provided high-class programmes for listeners in Ipswich and surrounding districts.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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