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299 |
New Zealand |
FM for the Birds
|
Whether in Paris, New York, Paraparaumu or Paekakariki, people can tune in to the new Paekakariki FM...
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298 |
New Zealand |
Maranui FM Goes Global
|
Maranui FM's DJs are charming and articulate, have local knowledge and varied
musical tastes - and they are only 9 to 11 years old...
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297 |
New Zealand |
Radio Zestoboom
|
Richmond View School in Blenheim has been making its presence felt on the airwaves, through
pupil-run radio station Radio Zestoboom! since the beginning of the year...
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296 |
Israel, New Zealand |
Mediterranean Peace Voice
|
Looking back now upon the near vanished "frequency" of my youth; through filtered static, "The Voice of Peace" radio ship hauls into
view, mist shrouded as memory. A ghost ship...
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295 |
New Zealand |
Maniapoto FM Turns 21
|
Mfm, Te Reo Irirangi o Maniapoto, is run by a trust and its purpose is to
promote and sustain Maori culture and Maori values throughout the King Country on its four frequencies:
Waitomo 99.6FM, Piopio 92.7FM, Rereahu 91.8FM, and Waipa 106FM...
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294 |
New Zealand |
Kiwi Radio Paddy O'Donnell
|
One of New Zealand's best-known broadcasters and colourful radio personalities has died...
|
293 |
New Zealand |
DJ Bobby on Blue
|
With his velvet voice and love of music, Bob Mawer seems to have been made for a job on the radio...
|
292 |
New Zealand, Fiji |
Free FM Fijian
|
Peni Seru takes a few minutes to compose himself. I've just asked the
presenter of Bogi ni Taukei, a Fijian language programme broadcast on
Hamilton community access radio station Free FM 89, how
his discussion of the Fijian Government on his show has affected his family...
|
291 |
New Zealand |
Manawatu Radio Connects
|
Mid Canterbury Herald reporter John Hobbs took on
the weekly challenge this week as a guest announcer on Port FM Ashburton...
|
290 |
New Zealand |
Radio Tainui Ngaruawahia
|
There're birthday shoutouts to do and Te Reo cheats on the whiteboard near the signed
picture of Rick Dees, but Huntly-born, bred and living Patara Berryman doesn't need any of that. He needs the Waikato Times and
makes a desperate bid for it from under a pile of stuff as the song is ending...
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289 |
New Zealand |
Manawatu Radio Connects
|
This year's Waitangi Day concert in The Square is a classic case of ebony and ivory.
Kia Ora FM and Access Manawatu have joined forces to organise the free family event...
|
286 |
New Zealand |
Sounds FM Silenced
|
A Christchurch man who ran a hobby radio station has been fined $4000 and had his equipment confiscated after
boosting its power interfered with an air traffic control frequency...
|
287 |
New Zealand |
Womad Sounds
|
One of Denis Wadsworth's favourite sounds at Womad is the roar of generators as the festival cranks into action...
|
286 |
New Zealand |
Keri Country FM
|
It is Christmas Day in 2010 and in a suburban home on a lateral road not far
from the Stone Store in Kerikeri there is great excitement. A present has been delivered to the Hay household but it's not one to be found under the Christmas tree wrapped in pretty paper and tied with a bow.
It will, however, greatly change the life of the recipient...
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285 |
New Zealand |
River City Dagsy FM
|
Creative job seeker takes to airwaves...
|
284 |
New Zealand |
Ranfurly Radio Burn729
|
A celebration will be held in Ranfurly this weekend to mark the
20th year on the airwaves for the area's sole radio station...
|
283 |
New Zealand |
2ZA Vinyl in Levin
|
More than 700 pieces of Palmerston North broadcast history have been unearthed from a basement in Levin...
|
282 |
New Zealand |
Radio Lollipop Starship
|
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...
|
280 |
New Zealand |
Ifinity FM Finds Flour
|
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...
|
279 |
New Zealand |
Hospital Radio Checks Out
|
Hospital 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...
|
278 |
New Zealand |
Kiwi FM Goes Global
|
An 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...
|
276 |
Vanuatu |
And Tanna Gets Antenna
|
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...
|
275 |
New Zealand |
Big Buzz Big River FM
|
Kaipara community radio station Big River FM's latest interns give Dargaville a big thumbs-up...
|
274 |
New Zealand |
ART Covers Taranaki
|
Two years ago the voice of the community first wafted over our airwaves when Access
Radio Taranaki began broadcasting on radio's 104.4FM frequency...
|
273 |
New Zealand |
Fresh FM Finds Founders
|
It still smells of new paint inside Fresh FM's studios at Founders Heritage Park...
|
272 |
New Zealand |
Radio Southland Salutes Songs
|
Tall poppies are more than welcome at a new radio show, The Great Southern Songbook, that launches tonight...
|
271 |
New Zealand |
Secret FM No Secret
|
Hutt radio listeners will be hearing more from local teens with the
launch of youth radio station 107.2 Secret FM...
|
270 |
New Zealand |
Kiwi Radio Doreen Kelso
|
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...
|
269 |
New Zealand |
Kiwi Radio Geoff Sinclair
|
Geoff Sinclair, one of the original giants of talkback radio, has died, aged 79...
|
268 |
New Zealand |
ZM Wellington Rocks On
|
Forty years of Wellington radio personalities will converge when a classic
station's former crew come together for a long-awaited reunion...
|
267 |
New Zealand |
TRN Nelson Mike Moves
|
The Radio Network Nelson general manager Mike McElhinney is leaving his post this
Friday after more than 20 years in the radio industry...
|
266 |
New Zealand |
Kaikoura FM Can Do
|
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...
|
265 |
New Zealand |
So Dope That's Cool Radio
|
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...
|
264 |
New Zealand |
Papakowhai Rocks AndHow
|
Everything may be bigger in Texas, but it's not necessarily better - which
is how a popular radio station came to be on the airwaves out of Papakowhai...
|
263 |
New Zealand |
The Most has Mike
|
He may have big shoes to fill, but Mike Dunn reckons returning
to his business roots in music will help.
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...
|
262 |
New Zealand |
Arrow FM finds fans
|
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...
|
261 |
New Zealand |
107.5Rocks Dunedin
|
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...
|
260 |
New Zealand |
Wellington Maori Radio 1161AM
|
The "Big kid" of Maori language radio stations is turning 25 and the party is about to start...
|
259 |
New Zealand |
Feature Station 2YD Wellington
|
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...
|
258 |
New Zealand |
2ZB Wellington Personalities
|
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...
|
257 |
Japan/NZ |
Art of Amateur Radio Japan
|
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...
|
256 |
New Zealand |
Amateur QSL Gallery 1
|
In the first of this new series, amateur radio stations from around the world that have worked ZL2ADN Palmerston North, New Zealand, are featured...
|
255 |
Australia |
Australian Radio 1922-2012
|
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...
|
254 |
Worldwide |
Listening with Lizzie
|
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...
|
253 |
New Zealand |
ZL6RWC Rugby Radio
|
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...
|
252 |
Australia |
4IP Ipswich
|
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...
|
251 |
Australia |
2QN Deniliquin
|
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...
|
250 |
Australia |
2MW Murwillumbah
|
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...
|
249 |
Australia |
3BA Ballarat
|
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...
|
248 |
Australia |
2KM Kempsey
|
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...
|
247 |
India |
VU2ZP Bangalore Brochure
|
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...
|
246 |
Japan |
WLKT Miho
|
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...
|
245 |
Antarctica/NZ |
97FM Scott Base
|
"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...
|
244 |
China |
Early Chinese Radio in Peking |
Due to the absence of any local stations, residents with radios in Peking were not able to receive any transmissions except at night, when they could
usually tune-in to broadcasts from the Shanghai and Tientsin concessions...
|
243 |
China |
Chinese Local Radio in the 1930s |
The Orient opens its heart to radio and in the footsteps of the American listening public,
succumbs to the appeal of native amateur hour artists...
|
242 |
Australia |
3GL Geelong
The Geelong Advertiser Station |
S3GL is owned and operated by the Geelong Advertiser, Victoria’s oldest morning journal, founded by John Pascoe Faulkner in 1840...
|
241 |
Australia |
2KA Katoomba The Voice of the Mountains |
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...
|
240 |
Australia |
2GF Grafton
The Voice of the Clarence |
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...
|
239 |
India |
VU2ZS Misamari, Assam, India 1944 |
Station VU2ZS Going Places - 3 Watts to 50 -
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...
|
238 |
India |
VU2ZP Southern India Air Depot, Bangalore |
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.”...
|
237 |
India |
This is Radio Station VU2ZP in Bangalore |
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...
|
236 |
India - Burma |
AFRS The India-Burma Network |
Commercial Radio Plug Featured Even On Armed Forces Stations...
|
235 |
India - Burma |
AFRS 'Wings Over The Orient'
WOTO Bhamo, Burma |
Armed Forces’ Radio Stations Bring American Programs To I-B
Doing Great Morale Job - Roundup Staff Article...
|
234 |
India - Burma |
AFRS Along the Ledo Road |
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...
|
233 |
New Zealand |
1ZD Tauranga Celebrates Classic Hits |
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...
|
232 |
New Zealand |
Kids on the Ridge FM |
It's Kids on the Ridge FM.
And technician Nadia Weighman and DJ Brooke McDowall are beaming out to all those willing to hear from up to 30km away...
|
231 |
New Zealand |
Musick Point Radio 500 AM |
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...
|
230 |
New Zealand |
Gisborne's Switch 105.3 Goes Silent |
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...
|
229 |
New Zealand |
Human FM Serves Coffee Hits |
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...
|
228 |
New Zealand |
88.1 FM Mangere Town Centre Live |
It's time to wake up in your own neighbourhood, Mangere, with the first radio station exclusively about the suburb...
|
227 |
New Zealand |
Students GO FM in Titirangi |
A talented group of budding young DJs are living their dream by hosting a radio station...
|
226 |
New Zealand |
Radio Woodville - The Voice of the Tararuas |
The front door at Radio Woodville is often wide open, as it is today, and before you even make your
way inside you can hear the music...
|
225 |
New Zealand |
Retro-Heads Rock Kaikoura's Blue 100.3 FM |
If you live in Kaikoura and shop in town on a Saturday you have more than
likely come across this DJing duo blasting out across the airwaves on a Saturday...
|
224 |
New Zealand |
The Gramophone Room, Palmerston North |
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...
|
223 |
New Zealand |
Solid FM 107.4 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...
|
222 |
Australia |
Radio 2WL The South Coast Station |
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...
|
221 |
Australia |
4GY Gympie Broadcasting Co. Ltd |
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...
|
220 |
Australia |
2XL Cooma 'The Voice of the Southern Tablelands' |
2XL has progressed a long way since the second Great War started when it was operated largely
by a part time staff...
|
219 |
Australia |
Broadcasting Station 2GN Goulburn |
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...
|
218 |
Australia |
2DU Dubbo The Western Station |
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...
|
217 |
Australia |
Victorian Broadcasting Network 3TR Gippsland |
A unit of the Victorian Broadcasting Network and of the Macquarie
Network, 3TR Gippsland is included in most of their extensive major
features. Excellent programmes are thereby assured and that is one
reason why 3TR is widely listened to. Its transmitter is favourably
situated and it covers the whole of eastern Victoria...
|
216 |
Australia |
Victorian Broadcasting Network 3SH Northern Victoria |
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...
|
215 |
Australia |
Victorian Broadcasting Network 3HA Covers Western Victoria |
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...
|
214 |
New Zealand |
Tongan Radio on Auckland Airwaves |
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...
|
213 |
New Zealand |
Radio Ngakuta Bay |
Ngakuta Bay has its own radio station, thanks to local resident and
amateur radio enthusiast Foss Leach who 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...
|
212 |
Papua New Guinea |
Papua New Guinea Radio is so much more |
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...
|
211 |
Australia |
7AD & 7BU Northern Tasmania |
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...
|
210 |
Australia |
5AD Advertiser Broadcasting Network |
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 £30,000 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...
|
209 |
Australia |
4SB "The Voice of the South Burnett" |
Station 4SB is controlled by the South Burnett Broadcasting Co. Ltd. The studio is in Alfred Street, Kingaroy...
|
208 |
Australia |
4LG 'The Voice of the Central West' |
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...
|
207 |
New Zealand |
Swiss Mixx 106.9 Covers Coastal Wanganui |
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...
|
206 |
New Zealand |
Mamaku School 88.4FM Radio |
Budding young radio announcers are making themselves heard on the airwaves in Mamaku...
|
205 |
New Zealand |
BOLT 88.3 FM Bedroom Radio |
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...
|
204 |
New Zealand |
Fevah FM is Hot in Hamilton |
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...
|
203 |
New Zealand |
TAS 88.1 FM Taihape Area School Radio |
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...
|
202 |
New Zealand |
Hollah FM Fills Porirua Airwaves |
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...
|
201 |
New Zealand |
Ifinity FM 87.7 Invercargill |
A new radio station celebrating youth culture is hitting the airwaves in Invercargill...
|
200 |
New Zealand |
Botany 107.1 FM The Summer Sound All Year Round |
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...
|
199 |
New Zealand |
The Yak - Alive & Kicking |
Anyone tuning into Wintec's student radio station Max FM this morning might have heard something a little bit different...
|
198 |
Hawaii |
Blue Hawaii, Elvis and Hawaiian Radio in 1961 |
In 1961, Hawaii was into its second year as the 50th state of the union, the state wide population was estimated at
around 642,000 from the US Census the previous year, and the presidential elections held at the same time gave the Democrats
the slightest of majorities in the state with 50.03%...
|
197 |
|
Fighting Voices from Downunder |
When World War 2 began in 1939, radio broadcasting was still just a
teenager, having started in the early 1920's in Australia, New
Zealand, Canada and the USA...
|
196 |
Australia |
2UW Sydney - The Station All Australia Knows |
Transmitted from a vertical aerial towering 365 ft. above the city’s skyline,
the voice of 2UW dominates the listening habits of a great proportion of the 1,500,000 people who
live within the area of Greater Sydney...
|
195 |
Australia |
2MO Gunnedah - A Fine Station in a Rich District |
With a district population of 8,551, Gunnedah is one of the wealthiest pastoral
districts in Northern New South Wales. In this locality 2MO has been broadcasting since 1930...
|
194 |
Australia |
2HD Newcastle |
2HD reopened under New Management, the shares in the Company having
been purchased by the Australian Labour Party, and the Trades and Labour Council after
the station had been out of operation for four years. The re-opening took place on January 15, 1945..
|
193 |
Australia |
2GZ Central NSW Country Service |
Station 2GZ, Central New South Wales, commenced operations on Thursday,
October 31st, 1935, with a powerful transmitter situated at Amaroo, twelve miles from Orange.
Rapidly 2GZ became one of the most important and popular radio stations in the Commonwealth...
|
192 |
Australia |
2BS Bathurst - 'The Centre of the West' |
2BS is on the air from 6.30 a.m. till 10.30 p.m. week days and 10 a.m. till 2 p.m.,
and again from 5.30 p.m. till 10 p.m. on Sundays...
|
191 |
New Zealand |
Christchurch Earthquake 2011
Classic Gold Radio New Brighton 102.1 FM |
Classic Gold Radio New Brighton 102.1 FM live and local on the air
from New Brighton and covering the eastern suburbs 24/7 with
essential local news and information, welfare programs and wonderful
music...
|
190 |
New Zealand |
2ZW The Voice of the Capital City |
A group of local businessmen led by Mr R H Nimmo established 2ZW to
bring 'free' radio [free in that listeners were not paying a licence
fee for the stations programs] to Wellington...
|
189 |
New Zealand |
The Quartz Hill Collection 2 |
In the second of this series, the Quartz Hill Collection, amateur
radio stations from around the world that have worked ZL6QH feature in the Radio Shacks Gallery...
|
188 |
USA |
Undercover Radio |
A teenage boy in Hibbing was older than me then, and grew up a thousand
miles from my home, but he could have lived next door. We shared and searched some of the same airwaves for a few years...
|
187 |
New Zealand |
Radio Heritage Heaven |
Keith Richardson did not spend his entire radio career collecting industry treasures to make
his name made synonymous with radio heritage. But that is what has happened.....
|
186 |
Australia |
Diamonds of the Dial, Australian Heritage AM Radio Celebrating 75
Years on the Air |
“Diamonds of the Dial’, that’s what the Radio Heritage Foundation calls 40 Australian heritage AM
radio stations that have broadcast continuously for over 75 years with their original station calls...
|
185 |
Australia |
Book Review Changing Stations The Story of Australian Commercial Radio |
Let's get straight to the point with this book. If you have even the
faintest interest in Australian radio heritage, from any angle, you
must buy this book. It's big [530 pages], it's a bold traverse of the
subject and it's worth every penny....
|
184 |
Europe |
Book Review Cold War Radio The Dangerous History of American
Broadcasting in Europe 1950-1989 |
Although intended for listeners in Eastern Europe, programs from
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were regularly heard from their
powerful shortwave transmitters across Asia and the Pacific...
|
183 |
Australia |
Australian AM Radio 1611-1701 |
Almost 70 low power stations are are still operating in Australia's
expanded AM radio dial almost two decades after the new channels
became available...
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182 |
Australia |
2LM Lismore - The Feature Station |
2LM is owned and operated by Richmond River Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. The Studios are
situated in Molesworth Street, Lismore, and the transmitter in Ballina Road, Goonellabah. The licensed and operating power
is 500 watts, wavelength 330 metres (900 kilocycles). The Station commenced operations September 21, 1936.
Daily transmission hours, 16; transmitter, A.W.A. type J2221; studio equipment, A.W.A...
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181 |
Australia |
2AD Armidale - The Voice of New England |
A decade has passed since Station 2AD took the air to serve the New England Tableland, which technical experts will tell you, is one of the most
difficult areas in the State to serve day and night the whole year round...
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180 |
Australia |
3XY Melbourne, Efftee Broadcasters Pty Ltd - For Live Artist Productions |
3XY operated by Efftee Broadcasters Pty. Ltd., was founded by the late F. W. Thring, well known in Australian theatrical and film circles. It began operations on September 8th, 1935...
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179 |
Australia |
2LF - YOUNG - "The Voice of the South West" |
Ideally situated in the heart of one of the Commonwealth's wealthiest districts, Station 2LF, from Young, dominates an area of over 11,000,000 acres containing a population of nearly 106,000...
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178 |
Australia |
4MK Mackay, Queensland 'We Strive to Excel' |
Mackay Broadcasting Service Pty. Ltd., is a 100 per cent. Mackay organisation established firmly in a very prosperous district which boasts seven sugar mills, a butter factory and two wharf sheds wherein 38,000 tons of sugar has been stacked at one time...
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177 |
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Book Review Shortwave Radio Triolgy |
Nearly 1200 combined pages and extensive notes make the 'Shortwave
Radio Trilogy' of U.S. radio listener and historian Jerry Berg a
virtual encyclopedia of the global shortwave radio scene since 1923...
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176 |
Japan |
Japan AM Radio Dial 1941 |
During 1941, Japanese radio audiences had almost 50 local AM radio stations they could listen to for a large part of each broadcasting day...
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175 |
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Book Review Treason on the Airwaves |
Judith Keene from the University of Sydney recently released an
excellent book about three Allied broadcasters on Axis Radio during
World War II....
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174 |
New Zealand |
Aunt Gwen of 2YA |
"Putting together this story about my mother has taken a long time, all my life in fact."
With these words, Margaret Willis introduces us to New Zealand's most loved Radio Aunt, 'Aunt Gwen of 2YA'...
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173 |
New Zealand |
Never A Dull Moment |
Keith Richardson is known to Kiwi babyboomers for his top rating radio shows on 1XN Whangarei, 2ZC Napier, 2ZB Wellington and to even more recent
listeners on Radio Pacific, Greater Wellington FM, Radio Fifeshire and others...
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172 |
Australia |
The Queensland Network |
The Queensland Network - Five Great Voices in One
4BC Brisbane 4SB Kingaroy 4GR Toowoomba
4RO Rockhampton 4MB Maryborough...
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171 |
Australia |
7DY Derby |
Playing an important part in Tasmanian country broadcasting since February, 1938, Station 7DY,
situated near Derby, operates on 1450 kc/s. (107 metres) , with a power of 200 watts...
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170 |
Antarctica |
WASA Radio, Antarctica |
In 1971 I had the privilege of being deployed to the Antarctic for one year and three days. The following are excerpts from my diary in regards to my involvement with
the WASA radio station at McMurdo...
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169 |
New Zealand |
2ZA Radio On Stage |
2ZA 'The Voice of the Manawatu' began broadcasting from Palmerston North in 1938.
An ambitious social history exhibition was mounted by the regional museum Te Manawa to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the local radio station that had such an impact on community life...
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168 |
New Zealand |
Kiwi Hams All Ages |
Cecil James and Brendan Farrell share something unique: they are the oldest and youngest ham radio operators in New Zealand and they belong to the Hamilton Radio Electronics Group...
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167 |
New Zealand |
Apna 990AM Auckland |
Morning radio jockey Shaiyaz Mohammed doesn't mind getting up at 4.30am to do the job he loves.
The Apna 990 general manager hosts the radio station's breakfast show and has been with the media company since its inception...
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166 |
New Zealand |
Blue Skies FM |
Alexandra's only independently owned radio station is going off air.
Blue Skies FM will have its final broadcast on Tuesday and become RadioWorks' easy-listening radio station the Breeze from Wednesday...
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165 |
Papua New Guinea |
9PA Port Moresby |
For a period of around two years during the Pacific War, there was no radio broadcasting station on the air in Port Moresby. However, when the American forces flooded into the South Pacific in support of the war effort, there was a
need for a radio broadcasting station in Port Moresby...
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164 |
New Zealand |
One Christian Radio |
James Cope is bringing his faith to New Plymouth airwaves...
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163 |
New Zealand |
Southside 107.7 FM |
When Papatoetoe man Chris Bennett didn’t like what he heard on the radio he decided to do something about it...
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162 |
Northern Mariana Islands |
The KYOI Story |
The idea for a pop/rock station on Shortwave first appeared in early 1980. At the time there was an upsurge of popularity in shortwave listening amongst teenage Japanese, brought about partly by the
availability of inexpensive, good quality portable receivers...
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161 |
Philippines |
Starting Radio Sangley |
I was sent TDY to the Naval Air Station, at Sangley Point, across the bay from Manila.
I was teaching technicians in communications, radar, and sonar equipment. There were many families living on or near the Sangley Point station, and they had no radio except Philippine stations. So, in conversation with the Special Services Officer, we decided to build a "carrier current"
transmitter and broadcast music and news on the station...
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160 |
Philippines |
KTLG Radio Sangley |
Before enlisting in the Army in 1952 I had done some commercial broadcasting at a local radio station here at home, so,
naturally, I was drawn to the AFRS station there at Sangley...
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159 |
Northern Mariana Islands |
SuperRock KYOI |
KYOI, located on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands was a commercial shortwave station, on air 24 hours a day, broadcasting "Contemporary Hits"
rock music directed at the Japanese market...
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158 |
South Pacific |
Samoan Radio Journey |
We turned a corner on the Cross Island Road, and there sat a stumpy little radio tower, almost hidden in the misty rain. High in the hills behind Apia, the Afiamalu Pass is the location used by 2AP for many years. As Alan Roycroft, even today still
remembered in Samoa as the founder of radio in the islands...
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157 |
New Zealand |
Hospital Radio Timaru |
Hosptal Radio celebrated 20 years yesterday with the biggest crowd yet to its annual gathering...
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44 |
South Pacific |
ZMAP Apia, Samoa |
As part of the preparations for civilian air service from Fiji to the Cook Islands shortly after World War II, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) installed communications and radar services. I was involved with this work in Samoa,
Tonga and Rarotonga, and, while in Apia, I decided to start up a radio station...
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154 |
New Zealand |
Access Manawatu 999AM |
Ten years on, and this radio station team hasn't let anything get it down...
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153 |
New Zealand |
Reef Radio |
Eric Allen is using his love and knowledge of music to give back to his local community.
After becoming fed up with the lack of radio programmes for seniors, the 83-year-old Pt Chevalier
resident decided to start his own station, Reef Radio, in 2006...
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152 |
New Zealand |
Howick Village Radio |
Eastern residents have a local voice thanks to the launch of a new radio station.
Howick Village Radio officially launched last week and promises a mix of local news, community group information,
health and lifestyle features, and varied musical styles...
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151 |
Australia |
6PM Perth Network |
6PM Perth, 6AM Northam,
6KG Kalgoorlie, 6GE Geraldton...
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150 |
Australia |
4VL Charleville |
Station 4VL is owned and controlled by the Charleville Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Alfred Street,
Charleville. Studios and transmitter are situated at that address...
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149 |
India |
India FM Abuzz |
The year gone by was a time when years of hard work and patience finally paid off for the radio industry in India. It was a year of intense competition, aggressive marketing and marginal creativity
as private FM finally flowered in metros as well as tiny towns throughout the nation...
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148 |
Australia |
4AY Ayr |
C. D. McCARTHY, manager of 4AY Ayr, "The Voice of the North'' exerts his influence from his town office, where his contacts make 4AY a busy station...
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147 |
New Zealand |
Hear the Lights |
Santa will have no trouble finding one Christchurch house this Christmas -- 6000 lights flashing to synchronised music will see to that.
Software programmer Nathan Kennedy has upped the ante for Christmas lights with a hi-tech, drive-by display in Wetlands Grove, Bexley.
A neon sign tells you to tune your car radio to 88.1FM...
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146 |
New Zealand |
Waves in Waipu |
At the tender age of 19, Ashley Worthy has his own caravan, cat, flat and radio station. Not bad for a legless lad from Waipu...
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145 |
New Zealand |
Radio Cindy |
As a child I always fancied being on the radio, playing cool music and emulating the gun DJs, right through my life it's always been a pipe dream, up until recently. With a 29 year marriage left behind me, a
62 year old solo guy can do what ever he wants if he has the money and motivation...
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144 |
Australia |
2UE Memories |
Hi! My name is Tom Crozier, long retired from commercial radio in Australia but still interested in the business.
A friend of mine forwarded your "long-lost radio stars" of January 10th this year to me. Maybe you have gone past that by now, but many of the names on the list were well-known to me, from my period
at 2UE Sydney in 1949/51, and then a 20-year stint with the same station from 1961...
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143 |
Australia |
2PK Parkes |
Parkes Broadcasting Co. Pty. Ltd. is the licensee of 2PK, which came on the air on October 5th 1937...
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142 |
Australia |
2MG Mudgee |
Station 2MG, Mudgee, "The Voice of the Tablelands," owned and operated by the Mudgee Broadcasting Company Pty. Limited, is situated a mile from the
chief commercial town of a very rich inner-western district of New South Wales...
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141 |
Australia |
2BH Broken Hill |
2BH, "The Barrier Miner" Broadcasting Service is the only station giving coverage to Broken Hill and West Darling districts under all transmitting conditions...
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140 |
Australia |
2LT Lithgow |
Radio Centre 2LT, controlled by Lithgow Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. and an offshoot of Western Newspapers Pty. Ltd. commenced
entertaining its 26,000 town listeners on June 7th, 1938...
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137 |
Solomon Islands |
AFRS Guadalcanal |
The year is 1944 and the world is at war. In the Southwest Pacific, US soldier and broadcaster, T/5 Hy Averback, presents the Atabrine Cocktail Hour on the airwaves of the American Expeditionary
Station (AES) on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate...
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138 |
Solomon Islands |
AFRS Radio City |
Once ashore, Captain Spencer Allen was relieved to find that Army engineers and Signal Corpsmen had constructed a studio building for the radio station, “the first made of clapboard in the camp,”
he recalls, and a smaller transmitter shack about 200 yards away...
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139 |
Solomon Islands |
AFRS Mosquito Bites |
As AES-Guadalcanal continued to develop, it was joined by other new stations in The Mosquito Network. On April 3, 1944, AES-Munda (New Georgia), opened transmissions,
having taken over from the unauthorized station already in operation...
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136 |
South America |
Early Argentine Radio |
American history professor Robert Claxton has just released a thoughtful and informative book about early radio in Argentina, with a focus on the period 1920-1944. What soon becomes apparent on reading this book is that the story of
early radio in Argentina shares much in common with a number of other countries...
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135 |
Antarctica |
Antarctic Radio Unfreezes |
There's competition along the Antarctic radio dial. Yes, McMurdo alone now boasts
three FM stations, and the nearby New Zealand base has yet another...
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134 |
New Zealand |
Across the Pacific |
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...
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133 |
Australia |
Australia Radio Dial 1931 |
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...
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132 |
South Pacific |
Radio Pasifik Nauru |
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...
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131 |
South Pacific |
Samoan Radio Sale |
It's unusual for a public radio and TV broadcaster to be sold, but that's what's happening this year in Samoa...
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130 |
USA |
California Radio Dial 1928 |
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...
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129 |
China |
Shanghai Radio Dial 1941 |
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...
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128 |
Australia |
Silver Memories |
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...
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127 |
Australia |
Pirate Radio PROSH |
Forty-one years ago, in the early hours of Sunday July 31, 1966, Ernie Sigley, irreverent host of NWS 9’s Adelaide Tonight, was abducted from his Kingswood home and driven to Cape Jervis. From there, at sunrise, he was taken by motor launch through a
heavy swell to a vessel anchored in international waters off Kangaroo Island....
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126 |
New Zealand |
Mainstreet Radio |
No one knows when adverts stopped playing on Onehunga Mall. And retailers can't agree if they should start again.
So Onehunga's Mainstreet Radio looks set to be silenced for good unless a buyer is found for the 10-year-old business...
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125 |
New Zealand |
GuruFM |
With Kerikeri's growth, more young people are settling in the area. Among them is Rob Fussell whose new
GuruFM radio station is filling a gap for alternative music enthusiasts....
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124 |
New Zealand |
Ross FM |
Learning broadcasting skills isn't just a theoretical exercise for Ross Intermediate School students on Friday the
Palmerston North school launched its own radio station...
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123 |
Australia |
4ZR Roma |
4ZR Roma, owned by the Maranoa Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and situated in the wealthy
Maranoa District provides both extensive entertainment and an excellent information service...
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122 |
USA |
LAB Keeps the Past |
When the LAB's Curator, Chuck Howell, brought out the first box of QSLs for me to thumb through,
I knew that I was just glimpsing the tip of a
very big iceberg. "We've got over 30,000", he said...
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121 |
New Zealand |
The Base |
As Ken Knight discusses his newest ambition, he is clearly beaming - and soon he'll
be beaming right into the living rooms of Te Aroha...
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120 |
New Zealand |
Today FM |
Brent and Alison Robertson enjoy the music being played on the Dargaville airwaves but feel
there is room for a station that provides real nostalgia...
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119 |
New Zealand |
Splat FM |
Splat FM is a local radio station with a difference.
Like other stations, it plays a selection of modern music, mixed with soundbites and live DJ spots.
But unlike others, none of its crew have graduated from primary school...
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118 |
New Zealand |
The Paddle |
The Paddle no, it isn't a canoe or swim club but a community-based radio station which has just hit the
Palmerston North airwaves...
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117 |
New Zealand |
Groove 107.7 FM |
JAZZ junkies are raving about a local radio station called Groove FM.
They're listening in the morning before work, during office hours and in the evening to wind down...
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115 |
New Zealand |
NZ Radio Dial 1978 |
As the first Generation X kids were born in the 1970's, early baby boomer parents still
listened to 'Music Whilst You Work' on the National Program. Or partied to pop music from a
commercial radio station – until midnight - when
the stations mostly closed down...
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116 |
New Zealand |
Short Term Kiwi Radio |
No, it's not what happens to people who over indulge during the holiday season!
Rather, the New Zealand broadcasting regulations in the 1970's and early 80's, allowed 'short term'
local radio stations to broadcast for a limited time...
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112 |
South Pacific |
ZK1ZA Cook Islands |
Broadcasting to the islands of the South Pacific was introduced in various ways. In
the case of the Cook Islands, it was an educational
radio station that started the interest in broadcasting...
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111 |
Australia |
7QT Queenstown |
The claim is made for 7QT that it is unique among broadcasters.
The extreme ruggedness of the country - plus the mineralised nature of the soil itself precludes
selective and effective reception from all distant Radio Stations in Tasmania, and on the Mainland.
Thus the broadcasting effectiveness of 7QT is readily appreciated,
covering not only Queenstown alone, but the entire west coast...
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110 |
Japan |
KSBK Ryukyu Islands |
During the first decade of the American occupation
of the Ryukyu Islands, the English speaking population listened to the familiar sounds of local
Armed Forces Radio, part of the Far East Network...
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109 |
Hawaii |
KRHO Honolulu 1944 |
KRHO was a powerful shortwave radio station broadcasting in English and Japanese languages to the Far
Eastern Pacific region in the closing stages of WWII...
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108 |
Vietnam |
Good Morning Hanoi |
At the entrance to the Voice of Vietnam's radio headquarters, the administration offices in Quan Su Street, sits a gigantic old loudspeaker,
the mouth of which is close to two meters in diameter...
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107 |
Philippines |
AFRS Radio WVTK Leyte |
I was a member the armed services during WW2, stationed in the Philippine Islands on the
island of Leyete. I was with Armed Forces Radio and at radio station WVTK. This was at a time when the Huk guerillas, an anti-government organization, were
causing lots of problems and killing a lot of people. The station was located...
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106 |
New Zealand |
Radio Shacks Gallery I |
In the first of a new series, the Quartz Hill Collection, amateur radio stations from around the world that
have worked ZL6QH feature in the Radio Shacks Gallery...
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105 |
Australia, New Zealand |
ANZAC Radio Salute |
During World War 2, Australia sent a number of mobile radio stations overseas to broadcast to troops...
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104 |
New Zealand |
2ZB Wellington 1120 AM |
In April 1937, 2ZB began broadcasting to Wellington using a modern 1kW transmitter on 1120kc.
To celebrate, here are some images from deep in our vaults. These are just a few of our collection items. ....
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41 |
Japan |
Tokyo Rose Broadcasts |
Major Cousens had become friendly with Iva Togura, a Japanese-American girl, who, stranded and unable to return to California, had found some suitable typing work with NHK. Iva was pro-American. Cousens selected Iva to work as an announcer on his radio show...
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39 |
Japan |
Radio Tokyo at War |
As is the case with most government-funded broadcasting services, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, in 1941 had a national and an international broadcasting service....
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103 |
Central Pacific |
OWI Central Pacific Operations |
The Office of War Information [OWI] in the Central Pacific, was responsible for propaganda broadcasts from stations KRHO Honolulu and KSAI Saipan, both stations beginning operation at 3.30am Hawaiian War Time, December 26 1944...
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102 |
Marshall Islands |
Radio Eniwetok WXLE |
The story of Radio Eniwetok is not, actually, the story of a radio station, but the story of the finest group of men....
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101 |
Vietnam |
Vietnam Village Radio |
I first visited Vietnam in early 1997, working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on an aid project to help modernize radio there. On my first morning in Hanoi, I was awoken in my hotel room on the dot of 5 a.m. by what sounded like a brass band in the street below....
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100 |
New Zealand |
Nelson's Fifeshire |
Back in 1982 two people by the names of Kevin Ihaia and Digby Lawley lodged an application with the Broadcasting Tribunal to operate a short term radio station for the four weeks of January 1983. For twenty-eight days Fifeshire broadcast from....
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99 |
Australia |
2UE Sydney |
Radio 2UE is the oldest of the existing commercial stations in Australia....
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98 |
Guam |
AFRS WXLI Guam |
In order to expedite his transfer, instead of being assigned to Armed Forces Radio Service – the unit that ran broadcast operations in the Pacific – [Ben Green] had been attached to
Island Command, which operated two radio stations....
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97 |
Australia |
6IX WA Network |
This trio of stations is operated by W.A. Broadcasters Ltd., and constitutes the Western Australian end of the Major Broadcasting Network....
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96 |
Australia |
4TO Townsville |
Station 4TO Townsville commenced operation on 5th October, 1931. It transmits on a wave-length of 384 metres....
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95 |
Australia |
2CK Cessnock |
2CK is owned by Coalfields Broadcasting Coy. Pty. Ltd., constituted from a diversity of interests from the commercial and industrial community of the Coalfields and Newcastle....
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94 |
Hawaii |
Art of Radio Hawaii © |
Just the word 'Hawaii' conjures up every possible classic tropical image. It's not surprising therefore, that a variety of Hawaiiana images have been used....
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93 |
Australia, New Zealand |
NZ Radio Dial 1931 |
The year 1931 was a highlight year for early radio broadcasting in New Zealand....
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92 | Australia, New Zealand | Gran of 1ZB Auckland |
Nancy M Donne, better known to thousands of 1ZB listeners as 'Gran' - The ZB Radio Personality - released a book...
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91 | USA | Vintage Radio Gallery |
On October 3 1986, Australian media magazine 'Ad News' ran an unusual double page spread...
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90 | Australia, New Zealand | Radio Power Plays 1975-81 |
Three individual stations ...carved out very special niches for themselves.
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89 | USA | AFRS Jungle Network |
An unedited letter From Sgt. Robert L. Sanders Radio Station WVTG, to John Dietrich at the time of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.
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88 | USA | WVTB Biak |
See by the latest "Far Eastern Network" news that you are still assigned to hdqs...
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87 | USA | AFRS Jungle Network |
Imagine thick jungle, incessant rain, tropical heat, the continual roar of aircraft engines taking off...
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86 | Australia | 2NZ Northern NSW |
...on 30th March, 1936, the first broadcasting Station to operate from Inverell, ...went on the air, using the call-sign 2LV.
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85 | Australia | 3BO Bendigo |
Station 3BO Bendigo commenced operation on 4th June, 1931...
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84 | Australia | 4CA Cairns |
The Cairns Station is the most northerly on the Australian Coast.
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83 | Australia | Vintage Radio Moosic |
In the 1980s, a band called The Sports wanted to know who listened to the radio.
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82 | USA | WVTB Olympic Baseball |
One of the announcers was driving down the road the other day, and stopped to pick up some hitch-hikers...
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81 | USA | WVTB New Guinea 1944 |
The radio section of Special Services Division of United States Armed Forces in the Far East [USAAFFE] was organized in November 1943...
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80 | Australia | Grace Gibson Studios |
The newly-renovated and equipped studios of British Australian Programs Pty Ltd, now owned by Grace Gibson...
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79 | Australia | Australian Radio Clubs |
A social phenomenon of the early days of radio was the listeners club.
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78 | Australia | 2CH Women's League |
The 2CH Women's League was formed by Amalgamated Wireless on Station 2CH in July 1935.
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77 | USA | AFRS Sapporo 1949-1951 |
In October 1949, Sapporo AFRS began airing spots looking for announcers, no experience necessary.
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76 | Australia | 7HO Hobart's Original |
7HO Hobart, the first commercial station to operate in Tasmania.
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75 | Ecuador | HCJB Quito 75th #1 |
On December 25 2006, the world famous radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, celebrates 75 years of broadcasting to Latin America and the world.
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74 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Founder |
In March 1932 2KY applied to have its power increased to 3,000 watts...
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73 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The First |
Once built, the station was handed over by Voigt to the Labor Council and it commenced transmission on 31 October 1925.
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72 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Pioneer |
He returned to Australia in January 1925 enthusiastic about radio...
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71 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Red |
During the early 1900s in England Voigt had become involved with the Independent Labor Party and joined the Clarion Movement and the Vegetarian Cycling Club.
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70 | Australia | 2KY Sydney The Olympian |
Emil Robert Voigt (1883-1973), an English born engineer, was one of the foremost pioneers of the fledgling Australian broadcasting industry in the early 1920s and the genius behind the birth of radio station 2KY.
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69 | Australia | Diggers on Air |
Australian forces in the SW Pacific and Japan were served by a number of stations during and immediately after WWII.
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68 | Australia | 4BU Bundaberg |
In December, 1935, Bundaberg residents formed Bundaberg Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. for the purpose of operating 4BU.
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67 | Australia | 2AY Albury NSW |
2AY Albury is owned and operated by Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited. The station was opened on December 17, 1930...
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66 | American Samoa | Pago Pago Tower Tour |
It's not often we see some Pacific towers, but you'll enjoy this series of photos taken recently at Pago Pago, American Samoa.
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65 | USA | KODK Kodiak 1941 |
Kodiak is credited with being the first armed forces radio station.
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64 | USA | WVUG Anchorage Alaska |
At WVUG we had the full supply of AFRS transcriptions, plus whatever the mails brought us from Headquarters.
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63 | USA | AFRS Alaska |
Some 65 years ago, in early 1941, KRB radio began broadcasting from Sitka, Alaska.
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62 | American Samoa | WVUV Radio Romance |
I am honored by your request about how and when I built and operated WVUV before it had a "call sign".
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61 | USA | KFSG LA The Legacy |
The hard times of the Great Depression years put a strain on nearly everyone in the United States.
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60 | Australia | 4WK Warwick |
The Warwick Station 4WK commenced operations in May, 1935.
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59 | Australia | 3CV Central Victoria |
3CV Central Victoria has studios throughout Central Victoria.
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58 | Australia | 2HR Hunter River |
Operated by Hunter River Broadcasters Pty. Ltd., 2HR supplies the Macquarie Broadcasting Service to the Hunter River Valley.
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57 | Japan | AFRS Japan |
When Japan formally surrendered in 1945, several mobile units of the AFRS were reportedly already on Kyushu.
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54 | Australia | Collecting Classic Radios |
Radio changed the world.
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53 | USA | KFSG LA The Kidnapping |
On May 18, 1926, Aimee went for a swim at Ocean Park, between Santa Monica and Venice, during a day of relaxing at the beach and writing some sermons.
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52 | USA | KFSG LA Regulator Trouble |
Besides the thousands of radio fans who tuned into the KFSG broadcasts each week, the new station was also drawing the attention of the regional Radio Inspector from the Department of Commerce 6th Radio District in San Francisco, Col. J.F. Dillon.
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51 | USA | KFSG LA Aimee Semple |
Aimee knew in 1922 she wanted to spread the word of God and bring people to her church through the use of radio, which was first gaining popularity at the time.
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50 | USA | KFSG LA Setting Straight |
I'd like to share with you what I believe is KFSG's legacy all these years later, along with a few stories about KFSG from its first decade, that have become popular in radio history books and on the internet over the years.
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49 | USA | KFSG LA 4 Square Gospel |
In August 2002, I wrote a history of KFSG radio that appeared on LARadio.com.
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48 | China, Burma, India | AFRS China-Burma-India |
Almost 50 American Forces Radio Service stations are known to have been on the air from 'The Forgotten Theater' of WWII operations ranging from China to India.
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38 | Afghanistan | Kabul Radio Memories |
The main highway running from the Khyber Pass into the city of Kabul (KAH-b'l) runs through the suburban area of Yakatut (YUCK-a-TOOT).
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37 | Australia | Early Australian AM Radio |
This listing of early Australian AM radio stations and their owners has been drawn from material supplied by Bruce Carty of Radio Yesteryear Inc to provide an introduction to the first decade of broadcasting in Australia.
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36 | USA | KELW Burbank |
You're probably familiar with the expression 'Beautiful Downtown Burbank' which was applied wryly to that part of The Valley in the greater Los Angeles conurbation known as the City of Burbank.
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35 | Christmas Island | Christmas Island Radio |
To people living in the developed economies of the world, information is shared in ways which were not possible a decade or two ago.
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34 | Japan | WVTR Tokyo Xmas 1945 |
Music, comedy, drama, news, sports and special events programs fill the airwaves as the 18 stations of the Armed Forces Radio Network broadcast the tops in radio entertainment to occupation troops in Japan and Korea.
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33 | Japan | WVTR Memories |
Let me tell you how I got to Radio Tokyo.
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32 | Japan | WVTR's Sea Monster |
In the Year of 1947 I was serving in the United States Army posted to the Army of Occupation in Japan.
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31 | Australia | 7LA Launceston |
Findlay and Wills Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. holds the licence of 7LA, "Launceston's Original and Feature Station," with offices and studios in Findlay's Buildings, Brisbane Street.
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30 | Australia | 5DN Adelaide |
In June 1924, 5DN commenced the first regular broadcasting service for listeners in South Australia, from the home of the late Mr. E. J.Hume at Parkside, a suburb of Adelaide.
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29 | Australia | 3MA Sunraysia Station |
Owned and operated by Sunraysia Broadcasters Pty. Ltd., 3MA studios are in the T & G Building, Langtree Avenue, Mildura.
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28 | USA | KFVD Los Angeles Changes |
The license for KTNQ, 1020-AM in Los Angeles, is 80 years old this week.
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27 | Japan | Art of Radio © Japan |
Japanese radio stations have created and supported a spectacular body of commercial art work since the early 1930's…
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26 | Australia | 2CH Sydney |
Travelling by fast elevator to the top of the AWA building at 47 York Street, Sydney, a visitor to 2CH…
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25 | Australia | 2CA Canberra Voices |
Radio Canberra is located at the seat of the Commonwealth Government…
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24 | Australia | 2KY Sydney |
The rapid progress which marked 2KY's infancy has been maintained throughout its 20 years.
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23 | India | Early Radio in India |
According to the official records, radio broadcasting in India began on July 23, 1927…
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22 | Australia | Perth Shortwave Radio |
It was on October 19, 1939 that the first test transmissions went on the air from the new ABC shortwave station…
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21 | Indonesia | British Radio Batavia |
As an intelligence officer attached to the RAF…
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20 | Midway Island | KMTH Memories |
With not much to challenge me, I wandered into the radio…
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19 | Midway Island | KMTH Midway |
It's a very lonely island, about, well, about Midway from…
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18 | New Zealand | Early ZL3 Amateurs |
Wireless listening, will have a bit of a run, like ping-pong…
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17 | Tokelau | Radio Tokelau |
FM radio has ended the dependence of the Tokelau people…
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16 | Kiribati | WXLE Memories |
We've been fortunate to have several WXLE DJ's share…
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15 | Kiribati | WXLE Radio 1385 |
Far out in the Central Pacific, the Phoenix Islands lie in…
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14 | Kiribati | Hermit Crab Network |
The eight islands of the Phoenix Group, like most of the…
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13 | Norfolk Island | Radio Norfolk Island |
It's 'drive-time' on Radio Norfolk, and down the road at…
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12 | Kwajalein | Kwajalein Army Radio |
Most of us remember the hilarious routines of actor Robin…
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11 | New Zealand | Hawkes Bay to Replay |
I'm not at all sure what got me interested in radio…
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10 | Australia, New Zealand, Canada | A Tale of Three Cities |
On July 1 1932, the NZ Radio Record, published the first…
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9 | New Caledonia | WVUS New Caledonia |
In May 1943, a station was heard in NZ, identifying itself as…
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8 | American Samoa | 'This is WVUV...' |
After a 35 year broadcast career in the US, I took some time…
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7 | Samoa | Radio in Samoa |
It was very early in the wireless era, that a spark gap Morse…
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6 | Fiji | Radio ZJV Suva |
The first Fiji Broadcasting Commission was appointed in…
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5 | China | Radio in Manchuria |
In the three eras of expansion in the nearby areas of Asia…
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4 | Hawaii | King Kong Radio Kauai |
The Kaumuali'I Highway traverses the western side of...
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3 | New Zealand | Radio NZ Signs On |
From Monday, September 27, listeners with shortwave...
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2 | Australia | The Voice of Australia |
It was just 75 years ago, that the first international shortwave…
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Art of Radio © |
When radio was first introduced to the public in the early 1920's...
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