Lunch with Your Favourite Announcer
ONSIDERABLE interest and amusement is being aroused in Christchurch by the 3ZB session A Luncheon Date with your Favourite Announcer, a’ contest which hinges on listeners’ ability to fill in the last line of a verse which is read over the air. The winner receives an invitation to lunch with her favourite announcer at a leading Christchurch hotel. With a nice sense of balance, it has also been made possible for any male listener who happens to win the contest to take one of 3ZB’s several attractive feminine announcers to lunch. The luncheon date over, the winner is then interviewed over the air, the interview centring around topics discussed during luncheon and the winner’s impressions of her favourite announcer. The first contest was won by Miss Alma McPherson, of Sydenham, who was duly taken to lunch by Peter Whitchurch. Interviewed over the air the same afternoon, she confessed that she had been so nervous that she had not had a bite to eat for 24 hours. However, Mr. Whitchurch turned out to be the perfect host, and she did full justice to the lunch,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 43
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189Lunch with Your Favourite Announcer New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 43
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