International Programmes from Auckland and Dunedin

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 39, 10 April 1931, Page 5

International Programmes from Auckland and Dunedin

Probable Relay to Invercargill

THE international programmes which have been a feature of the service from 2YA every Wednesday evening for some months past, are soon to be heard from 1YA and 4YA. These programmes of electrical transcriptions, which are selected features from overseas broadcast programmes ‘given by artists of international repute, have met with widespread appreciation, and many requests have been received by the Broadcasting Company for their broadcast from the distant stations, 1YA and 4YA. These broadcasts will begin early in May. An indication of the interest manifested in these programmes is found in the relays which have taken place between 2YA, Wellington, and the B Stations at Palmerston North and Masterton. The Manawatu Radio Society, controlling station 2ZF, and Mr. W. D. Ansell, controlling station 2ZD, Masterton, by co-operating with the Broadcasting Company, aided by the Post and Telegraph Department- who made available the necessary relay lines, provided their listeners with the opportunity of hearing these programmes direct from their local station. In a similar way, if a line be available from Dunedin to Invercargill, the Southland Radio Society will broadcast simultaneously with 4YA.