BROADCASTING STATION.

Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 8

BROADCASTING STATION.

WHERE WILL IT BE? ALARM Or MSTENEBS.Iir. J r DELAY IN COMPLETION FEARED.' Listeners-in view the uncertain* • regard to the location of the nP t k 7 ? casting station with *£<•££ Their alarm is due to the fact ?l *' objection has been raised to the erection of the station on the top of lfa£? George Court's building in Karam™! * Road, and this fit seek an inferior location . According to the experts thi s is prac . tically the one and only spot where the best results can be obtained, and thi. is a matter where the experts are thi only people who can talk with autW rity. It is proposed to erect two lattice masts on the top of Court's, reaching 100 feet above the top of the building to carry the aerials for the broadcasts' station for the northern half of Jfew Zealand—the other broadcasting Nation being at Christchurch. According to reports that have leaked out the committee was about equally divided over the matter of the application to put m> these tall masts the one and only objection being based on aesthetic grounds A 6 the committee could not arrive at a definite decision the matter has been referred to the whole council, which will consider it to-morrow night. What the experts cannot understand is why Auckland should baulk at the masts when they are to be found in ■every city of importance in the Old World and the New World. Los Angeles, a place that rather prides itself on its ; town planning, has a number of these masts or towers, and some of them are well over 200 feet high. It is pointed out by the listeneig-in that the Hon. Sir G..J. Parr some time ago said that the broadcasting stations would probably be "on the air" in six • months, but if the application in regard to Auckland is refused to-morrow night by the City Council the listeners-in will be thrown back three months, because on account of the holidays the council will not be meeting again until next February. It seems that no definite ■ order for the station can be given until ; tha site is approved. Asked if the station would not do , equally well on some other high point about Auckland the experts say no; all , the other possible sites having been : viewed and the top of Court's building , adopted as the pick of the lot—purely i from technical reasons, which must govern such a highly technical matter :as broadcasting. Being high up th( building gives an ideal site for thi masts, and it is about the only site that ; gives a clear "get-away" without any of the "screening" effects which are fatal ■ to good, clear, decisive signals being sent out from the antennae. It is also ' essential that the studio where the artists perform should be situated clow to the transmitting station. If youlaje to tranmit over land lines for any dietanee it means that your signals are not sharp and clear, but rather resemble one's telephone on a very bad day and it has got the "buzzes." Then again the studio must be in the city to pick up the best programmes.