Programmes for the Antarctic
ADIO NEW ZEALAND, the Shortwave Division of the NZBS, has completed plans to transmit a speciallyprepared weekly programme to the New Zealand party in the Antarctic, This was disclosed to The Listener by A. L. Curry, 2YA station manager, who is also responsible for the supervision of the Shortwave Division. "The programme," said Mr. Curry, "will be designed to keep the party informed on happenings at home, and also to provide notes on current events in world affairs." The format of Calling Antarctica was decided on after discussions between the
NZBS, Sir Edmund Hillary, and J. Holmes Miller, deputy-leader of the expedition. The weekly programme, which will Iast half an hour, falls into three main sections: news, presented in the form of a news review, with special emphasis on happenings in the main centres and towns from which members of the expedition come; a "family corner’; and sport-in the form of a digest, introducing highlights from commentaries that have been heard in New Zealand during the week under review. The second section of the programme, the "family corner," will not follow the pattern of the greetings programme familiar through the war years, said Mr. Curry, but would rather be the cccasion for.an informal gathering of the relations of two or three expedition members, bringing news of home and family. These broadcasts will be arranged at the broadcasting stations which are. handiest for those taking part in them. "Calling Antarctica,’ said Mr. Curry, "will be beamed direct to the McMurdo Sound: area, where the New Zealanders will be established at Scott Base. To provide effective transmissions Radio New Zealand are erecting a special aerial at Titahi Bay. It is hoped that when we conduct tests with it early in December, the Americans already at MeMurdo Sound will report on how signals are being received. We can then select the most suitable frequencies." Calling Antarctica will be broadcast on Sunday nights at 8.15 p.m. New Zealand time (which will also be the time observed at Scott Base), beginning December 30. By that time the Endeavour will be ten days out from New Zealand, and should be near her destination.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 27
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