AMERICAN RADIO

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1932, Page 5

AMERICAN RADIO

GOODWILL MESSAGE FOR N.Z. BROADCAST NEXT SUNDAY. (Per Press Association — Copyright.' WELLINGTON, December 15. Mr L. B. Wilson, president of the W.C.K.Y. radio station, at Covington, Kentucky, United States, ha, s cabled Mr ! G. W. Forbes as follows: “In response. to requests from thousands of listeners in NeAV Zealand, station W.C.K.Y. will give a special three-hour goodwill broadcasting, starting on Saturday, at midnight, this broadcast will bring to NeAV Zealand messages from President Hoover, President-Elect Roosevelt, the British Ambassador - , and others. Amerioa’s most famous orchestra Avill broadcast on a frequency of 1490 kilocycles.” Mr Forbes has cabled to Mr Wilson the felloAving reply: “The people of Noav Zealand send cardial greetings to the people of the United States, and, with them, sincerely trust that 1933 will bring <a substantial improvement on the present Avorld'-wide economic conditions, and Ave greatly appreciate the action of Station W.C.K.Y. in arranging the goodAvill broadcast.”

KING’S GOODWILL MESSAGE. HOTmV"December 14. AiTaiimmietits have now been ' onmploted for workKwide tmußmission of King George's broadcast message on Christmas Day to the Empire. His Majesty’? message, together with the whole of .the Empire programme with which it will! he associated will be recorded, so that it may be re-broad-cast in its entirety in Canadian, African, West African and Australasian programmes. In order to ensure the maimum possibility of reception throughout the Empire, th € actual transmission will last, from two to three o’clock (G.M.T. on Christmas afternoon.