Mobile 5ZB Should Attract Great Imterest

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 5

Mobile 5ZB Should Attract Great Imterest

Novel NCBS Radio Station On Wheels

[ISTINOTLY the most novel enterprise yet sponsored by the NCBS is the mobile railway broadeasting unit which will be known as 5ZB. As far as can be ascertained, this is the first time a complete broadcasting station has ever been built into a train, so the arrival of 5ZB at the centres it will visit should create tremendous interest, and listener interest of the station’s programmes should be correspondingly great. The railway carriage which is being modified to house the studio equipment will contain complete facilitier for presenting programmes, and special personnel will be selected to make the 77 days’ tour, which begins in March. Mours 525 will be on the air will be from 7 to 9 a.m., and G to 10 p.m. Where local conditions warrant , additional broadcasts will be made for two hours at midday. The evening programmes will include several ‘ new self-contained programmes, and focal talent may also be used. Only North Island centres will

be visited in the meantime, and centres at which 5ZB will stay will include Masterton, three days; Dannevirke, three days; Hastings, four days; Napier, four days; Palmerston North, two days; Wanganui, four days; Hawera, three days; New Plymouth, four days: Taumarunui, two days; Te Kuiti, one day; Hamilton, two weeks; Auckland, five days; and Whangarei, one week.