NCBS Stages Novel Relay Of Richard Crooks From U.S.

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 3

NCBS Stages Novel Relay Of Richard Crooks From U.S.

| Broadcast Was. Well Worth While

| [ost spectacular broadeast of last week was the special rebroadcast from America for the NCBS of a recital by Richard Crooks and the Firestone Symphony Orchestra. An experimental relay, it is understood to be the first time an American programme has _ been specially directed to this part of the world. . It was announced that the prosramme was transmitted by landline from New York to San Francisco, broadcast on shortwave from San Francisco to Australia, and, with the co-operation of Amalga-

mated Wireless, rebroadcast to the NCBS. A certain amount of surging and fading was to be expected, therefore, but on the whole the broadcast can be rated a definite sucfess.

The orchestra appropriately played Elgar’s "Pomp and Circumstance,’ and Crooks, who will shortly be visiting New Zealand, sang several ballads, including "Killarney" and "Beautiful Dreamer" very pleasantly, ' Stations 1ZB and 2ZB made recordings of portion of the broadcast ald replayed them the same evening, 2ZB’s announcer express: ing the pious hope that some day it would be possible to present such broadcasts with as much clarity as if they were- from local stations. ,