Progress at Whangarei
OCAL Northland talent will be called upon,to the greatest possible extent consistent with a high standard of broadcast programmes when the next link in the chain of new NZBS stations, IXN Whangarei, is fully established. With this end in view Station Manager C. A. McDowell plans to begin auditions within about a week. Like its fellows 1XH and 3XC, 1XN will broadcast a partly commercial programme, has a transmitter of two kilowatts designed to serve an area within
a radius of about forty miles, and is intended to bea radio community centre for the district. Mr. McDowell is enthusiastic about this latter aspect of his work-he has had twelve years’
experience of broadcasting, during which he has written, produced, or acted in almost every type of radio programme -and he hopés Whangarei artists will take full advantage of the facilities the studio will offer. A home for 1XN has already been completed in Rust Lane, not far from the Whangarei Public Library, and excellent progress is being made with the installation of technical equipment, which is the most modern available. Studio and offices are all the one floor of a now rather attractive cream and grey structure built from. prefabricated
steel sections used during the war for United States Army hospitals. ° Considerable ingenuity backed by a high degree of gtechnical skill have gone into the adaptation of this material to the needs of a broadcasting studio, but the results are such that Whangarei should have every reason to be proud of its own local station. The most modern methods of interior decoration ,have been used to provide both a pleasing appearance and highly satisfactory working conditions, The building itself is set in roomy grounds, neatly laid out in lawns, with provision for flowering shrubs, and evergreens, which will be planted in due course. Work on the transmitter building at Tikipunga, near Kamo, is sufficiently well advanced for the installation of
transmitting equipment to proceed simultaneously, while when this issue went to press the 175ft. steel mast, of the same type as that in use at Hamilton, was almost ready.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 526, 22 July 1949, Page 24
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