2YA Plans Concert from Wanganui—120 Miles

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 41, 27 April 1928, Page 4

2YA Plans Concert from Wanganui—120 Miles

IF PRELIMINARY TESTS ARE SATISFACTORY.

| LL the talent in New Zealand is not confined to the four cities. ‘There must be a lot distributed throughout the country where it cannot be made available for broadcasting. These individual artists cannot go to the broadcasting station, and the station cannot go to them. But, in one at least, 2YA proposes to go to the artists. This instance is Wanganui, the fifth city of the Dominion, and one of the most musical for its size. A number of Wanganui artists have been heard on the air from 2YA, and Wanganui is the home of New Zcaland’s champion brass band, the Queen Alexandra’s Own, and of the champion Highland Pipe Band (both honours won at the recent band contest in Christchurch), while in musical and dramatic talent the city is very strong.

All this talent cannot be brought to. Wellington, so, by means of a relay line, 2YA proposes going to Wanganui. Relay lines over such a long distance (120 miles) present great difficulties in the successful transmission of a concert, and 2YA’s final plans will depend on a test which is to be carried out this week. The project has only been made feasible by the recent erection of a new line to Wanganui, and the Broadcasting Company, with commendable initiative, proposes to take advantage of it at the earliest moment-if it be proved that a satisfactory transmission can be secured, The wire is to be tested for radio ‘relay purposes on the night of Tuesday, ‘April 24, and if the wire be satisfactory the concert, which will be given by the cream of Wanganui talent, will take place on Thursday, May 17.