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Radio Record, 19 August 1938, Page 44

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a eee 37B’S MODEL STUDIO AT CITY FAIR WHEN scheduled broadeasts were being given from the New Zealand Industries Fair, Christchurch, by 8ZB, the station’s model studio in the building seized the limelight and gathered the erowd's. During these hours the public. was able to see just how a radio station is operated. Hver since the big fire, which destroyed the studios in Colombe Street, the station and its staff have been carrying on in temporary quartets in Cathedral Square. Therefore visitors have not been encouraged. Day and night callers-especially people from the outback, flocked to the original studios to see their favourite announcers at work, and to watch the fechniclane busy at their highly-skilled jeb. Wednesdays were especially busy days, for the family came to town for the stock market at Addington,. Father left mother and the children in town while he went off buying or selling. 38ZB was the place they made for. Last week they could see it all again. In a small model studio, with green as the colour scheme and the signs in red, the regular announcers were on duty and reddy, at off-duty moments, to exe plain to the crowds Just how it wags one,