The New 4YA

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 October 1929, Page 7

The New 4YA

Silent Days Precede Change-over AS§ the official opening of the new studio takes place on Wednesday, October 16, it will be necessary to observe a few silent days in order to effect the necessary change from the old premises to the new. . The erection of the new transmitting plant will be completed and the necessary adjustments and tests will %e carried out before the new station ‘officially goes on the air. on Wednesday evening. From Saturday evening, October 12, at 11 o’clock, therefore, until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 4YA will be silent. The official opening of the new 4YA will be an eventful day for broadcastine in Otago, and, in fact, in New Zealand, for the new Dunedi station will complete the chain of the four YA stations. A progra: .me befitting the oceasion has been arranged. It will open, very appropriately, with a bagpipe selection from sixteen Dunedin Highlanders, and the programme right through will be decidedly Scottish in character. The official opening ceremony will be performed by the Hon. J. B. Donald, Postmaster-General, who. if he cannot be present in person, will speak on relay from Wellington.