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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 51, 6 July 1928, Page 4

INTEREST in the South African Test at Durban was so great that a healthy crop of rumours gained currency, in Wellington at any rate, that the match was to be broadcast from a station in Durban, picked up by 4QG, picked up again by 2YA, and rebroadcast once more. Unfortunately the rumour had no foundation in fact. In the first place there is no broadcasting station at Durban. ‘There is a ‘short wave station at Johannesburg, but that is 700 miles "from Durban, and as we have already explained a number of times 4s. not readily heard in the Dominion, the definite reason being as "yet somewhat obscure. In the circumstances, the rumour was corrected both by means of the Press and over the air. That the canard gained the currency it did is, however, a tribute to the growing reliance being placed upon radio for first-hand information. As it was, a vast number of people secured their first news of the defeat of New Zealand by Sunday morning’s 9 o'clock broadcast.

"THERE are several events of moment in the near future which will bring radio prominently before the public. The HeeneyTunney fight for the world championship is causing quite a number ‘of short-wave enthusiasts to prepare for the event. Those not so fortunate as to be able to listen in direct may rest assured that the Broadcasting Company's stations will be on the alert, and that full arrangements will be made for picking up, and, if satisfactory conditions prevail, rebroadcasting the account as received. If that is not possible, then the actual news as available will be given. The other event in which radio will figure prominently will be the flight of the Tasman by Captain Kingsford Smith and his conipanions in the Southern Cross. The Broadcasting Company has offered | any one of its stations for’ directiuii-finding purposes, and apart from that all stations will be on the air to describe the flight and the scenes attending its successful culmination-which, in the popular mind, is taken for granted on the strength of "nothing succeeds like success." . | "AN incident recorded in another commn is of some little interest to listeners. . While the pianist, Moisiewitsch, was in Christchurch a local paper raised the question of world-famous artists being broadcast during their stay in the Dominion: Moisiewitsch was interviewed, and expressed his preparedness to be broadcast; the paper concerned then suggested the next move was up to the Broadcasting Company. The company, although not. hopeful because of past experience, made the next move. Interviewed, the artist agreed that he was willing to broadcast, but the fee? As the suggestion of forty guineas he shook his head; at one hundred he said it was a matter for the management. And the management put a heavy boot on the idea-as it was outside the contract! Exactly -and'in the circumstances it looks a little like engineered publicity at the expense of the so-called desires of listeners... However, the incident is so far educative as to reveal that even world-famed artists now admit the perfection of broadcasting so far as perfect reproduction is concerned, Their reputation would not be spoiled by broadcasting.