RADIO ON RELAY
Not Quite As Easy As It Often Sounds
outside broadcasting studios are carried out with so little fuss nowadays that they excite no comment. They fit into the programme without a_ hitch. One of the reldys which 2ZB technicians are most frequently called on to undertake is from the Wellington Town Hall on the occasion of boxing matches there. These are described punch by punch by Wallie Ingram, the station’s sports commentator, with interludes from Maurie Power. Each relay demands first of all careful organisation by the technical staff, and then nice co-operation between commentator and technicians. ; The land line to the Town Hall all in order, the technicians arrive an hour or so before "zero hour" with their relay gear,. which includes amplifiers, microphones, and telephone. _ Having placed the microphones, the technician checks back to the studio by descriptions of events
"THIS IS Station 2ZB on relay from the boxing in the Wellington Town Hall," and here is the team which brings it to listeners. In front. Maurie Power, Wallie Ingram and D. L. Rushworth (senior technician). Behind E. Black (technician)
the land line, listening through head phones to the programme being broadcast, ~~ Ten minutes before the relay is due on the air, the studio is sending a continuous programme to the operator along the land line. The operator listens to this with a cue sheet in front of him, and when he receives his cue,
usually some such phrase as "Coming over, Town Hall," he gives the commentator the signal to go ahead. During the actual broadcast he seldom has a chance to catch more than a glimpse of what is happening in the ring. One of his most important jobs is watching the "level". or volume of the sound going down the land line. There are two checks on this, one at the monitor on the relay end of the programme, and another in the control room at the studio, and the heaviest and most unexpected roar of approval or disapproval from the crowd can be kept within bounds before it goes over the air.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 12
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351RADIO ON RELAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 12
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