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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 21

MORE TEST MATCHES

Heavy Sports Schedule Ahead for NZBS

OR the next month or so the New Zealand Broadcasting Service has planned a heavy schedule of important sporting broadcasts which will be in addition to the current broadcasts of overseas cricket and Rugby. The fixtures will be international Rugby with the arrival of the touring Australian team, Ranfurly Shield Rugby, and racing and trotting meetings, There will be occasions when fixtures will clash and two stations in the same centre will be used for broadcasting sporting results. But one National station at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin

will be used to provide an alternative musical programme, and there will also be the Commercial programme. One of the busiest days will be Saturday, September 24, when. broadcast coverage will be given to six major

Rugby matches in New Zealand, and seven racing and trotting meetings. Broadcasts of the 1949 Australian Rugby Team’s tour of the Dominion will consist of commentaries on some ‘of the games, flashes of results and reviews of play. Results will be broadcast at 6.40 p.m. each day in a link of the main National stations, and a review of up to five minutes will fol-

low over the same stations at 7.0 p.m., before the cricket eyewitness accounts. Here is a list of matches and the stations which will broadcast commentaries: Saturday, August 20: Australia v. Bay of Plenty, at Whakatane (commentary by 1YZ). Wednesday, August 24: v. Poverty Bay and East Coast, at Gisborne (2XG). Saturday, September 3: v. New Zealand, at Wellington (2YA, and rebroadcast from 1YA and 4Y). Wednesday, Septembér 7: v. Nelson, Golden Bay and Marlborough, at Blenheim (2XN). Saturday, September 10: v. West Coast and Buller, at Greymouth (3YZ). Wednesday, September 14: v. Ashburton, South Canterbury and North Otago, at Oamaru (4YA). Saturday, September 17: v. Southland, at Invercargill (4YZ). Wednesday, September 21: v. Canterbury, at Christchurch (3YA). Satur-

day, September 24: v. New Zealand, at Aucklarti (1YA, and rebroadcasts by 2YA and 4YA). There will be broadcasts of results and a_ review of play only on Wednesday, August 17 -dAustralia v. King Country, at Taumarunui; on Saturday, August 27. v. Wai-

rarapa and Bush, at Masterton; and on Wednesday, August 31, v. Manawatu and Horowhenua, at Palmerston North. The Commercial stations will give sports flashes at intervals in their programmes, and the shortwave station of the NZBS, Radio New Zealand, will broadcast results at 7.0 p.m., followed by a five-minute review at 9.0 p.m.