5ZB CLAIMS RELAY RECORD

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 47

5ZB CLAIMS RELAY RECORD

Station, spent a very hectic 24 hours and claims to have broken all records for outside relays. The period of 24 hours began with Mac writing copy for six commercial recordings, and supervising their cutting in the city. Then back to the Exhibition where the relay equipment received an airing in Playland. Six fifteen-minute relays were recorded for playing over the ZB network. There is quite a story attached to this also. These records were actually relayed through two ZB station (2ZB and 5ZB) before being recorded in the recording studios in the city, At the conclusion of each relay the relay equipment would be shifted and set up in another part of Playland, tests taken and then another relay under way. This procedure continued for six relays, Ri secon, 5ZB, the Exhibition As an interlude, 5ZB then journeyed to the Miniature Theatre and relayed a session from there, through 5ZB to 2ZB, where it was broadcast and picked up at the recording studio for recording. Then followed a visit from G. H. Mackley, former manager of the N.Z. Railways, who initiated a ZB network relay and addressed his fellow workers for the last time as General. Manager. Uncle Scrim.also took part in the relay. When that finished the relay gear went in to a particular exhibit where a further

relay was taken. When this finished Mac felt he had performed noble work and returned to 5ZB to read the evening paper. He had no sooner taken up his paper than a voice floated in from the open window. "My word some people have an easy job. There’s a man reading the paper. . ." Mac didn’t say a word-at least nothing that was audible, The number of relays taken in the 24 hours period, excluding commercial recordings, was nine. Can any station beat that?