"MADE IN NEW ZEALAND"
CBS Has Encouraged Local Talent ROM the point of view of encouragement given to New Zealand talent, 1941 willgodownas the biggest and busiest year in the history of the Commercial Broadcasting Service, and there is a prospect that 1942 will be even busier. Two events have contributed to this: first, the launching of the production department at the CBS head office in Wellington, and second, the opening of the new 1ZB studios with their facilities for producing flesh and blood shows, The way was paved for the starting of the production department by a feature which was heard over the ZB station in 1940-The Enchanted Orchard. It was written and produced by Bryan O’Brien, and its success demonstrated to the CBS the possibilities which lay in features produced in the CBS studios with local talent. The first child of the new department was Station TOT, and this was followed by Radio Rotogravure, Aunt Jennie’s Real Life Stories, and many other productions. An important aspect of the department’s work is the two educational sessions which it is sponsoring, the first a session of child psychology sponsored by the New Educational Fellowship and now heard from all the ZB stations every Sunday morning, and the second. another Sunday feature entitled Free Education. This, which has just been released, comprises a series of four dramatisations giving publicity to the wide facilities for free education in New Zealand.
The search for capable radio players, who are not as easily found as might be imagined, is going on all the time, and during the past year Bryan O’Brien, who produces for the CBS, has given auditions to some hundreds of people. A small percentage of these have made good, and one or two have proved "finds." This new year, Mr, O’Brien states, will see increasing use made of New Zealand written scripts. Since Station 1ZB opened in October of last year, the Radio Theatre has worked overtime rehearsing and producing flesh and blood shows, both musical and dramatic. Evidence of the gratitude of Auckland musicians for the help given them by 1ZB was the baton recently presented by Theo. Walters and the 1ZB Orchestra to C. G. Scrimgeour, the CBS Controller,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 133, 9 January 1942, Page 5
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