AIR RACE BROADCASTS

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 17, 2 November 1934, Page 5

AIR RACE BROADCASTS

A MILLION people in this country listened in last week to the air race bulletins broadcast from station 2YA, Wellington. This constitutes the biggest "audience’’ that the broadcasting ‘service in the Dominion has ever known, and we understand that the New Zealand Broadcasting Board has since been receiving the plaudits of a well-satisfied community. he air race broadcasts demonstrated another thing -just how easily radio can steal the thunder of the newspapers in an event of that kind. Every newspaper edition that appeared was a lex or two behind the latest wireless bulletin, and New Zealanders were able to judge for themselves the advantace that the spoken word had, on this occasion, over the written word. The arranging of this special broadcasting’ service vas no simple matter, and the greatest credit is due to the. Broadcasting Board for the manner in which it ‘andled the whol affair. Listeners to Australian stators found that they were being equally well served in their own countrv and, in one or two cases, the bulletins were even ahead of the Australian announcements,