2YB Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 48, 14 June 1929, Page 15

2YB Notes

(By

Modulator

YB, New Plymouth, has now settled into its stride,.and some.very successful programmes have been put over. In addition to the entertainment sessions, successful relays -have been given of the football matches played at Pukekura Park. These relays are to be a regular feature on Saturday afternoons during the football season. On Saturday evenings a comprehensive summary is given of all the matehes played in the province, and also those of the four centres. On the programme side the future holds some good things in store for listeners.. A novelty programme in the form of a Free and Easy night is to be given shortly. The "Gloom Chasers" will present the reyue "Baye Jove" for listeners’ approval on June 19. "Modulator," who has seen this show, assures You it is "goad."

A SCOTTISH night is scheduled for June 26, when listeners of Scottish blood will be stirred by song and music from north of the Tweed. Included in the programme will be the "playing--in" of the haggis. A MOST ambitious entertainment is in course of. preparation in the form of a Maori night. The native members of the community are entering wholeheartedly into the scheme, and the programme promises to equal, if not exceed in merit, anything of the kind so far attempted in New Zealand. The possibilities of a land-line relay of this programme suggest further laurels in the cap of the R.B.C. 2YB is giving a really wonderful service for a B class station, and is losing no opportunity that presents itself in securing Tiems of interest to listeners, be they topical news or novel entertainments. The station is reaching out with a vengeance. Reports of good: reception have been received from all over New Zealand, from Dargaville to Invercargill. In Australia reception has been reported from Queensland, New South Wales and: Victoria, in a number of cases on three-valve receivers. ‘ The latest reports have been received from South Australia, one from Ninnis, 80 miles north-west, of Adelaide, another from Pimba reports reception in

daylight "lonlder and better clarity than 2YA." Mr, A. J. Papps, the North Taranaki Radio Society’s sports announcer, is giving general satisfaction, and easily holds his own with the announcers at the YA stations.