BROADCASTING SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27094, 18 July 1953, Page 6

BROADCASTING SERVICE

REGIONAL CONTROL PROBABLE

DUNEDIN POSITION ADVERTISED

(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, July 17.

Applications are being called for the post of district manager of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in Dunedin. This step is the first in a probable change of administration of broadcasting in the four main centres of New Zealand.

The Director of Broadcasting (Mr W. Yates), in reply to an inquiry, said today that when the National and Commercial Broadcasting Services were amalgamated in 1943, it was contemplated that ultimately, as the Broadcasting Service developed, there would be a need to provide for the administration of the activities of the service in each of the four main centres through district managers. Mr Yates said the opportunity arising from a vacancy in the managership of station 4ZB was being taken to try out such a district organisation in. Dunedin, and the position of district manager in Dunedin was now being advertised in the “Public Service Gazette.”

“This is an administrative change, and so far as listeners are concerned, the national and the commercial station in Dunedin will retain their present separate programme identities and functions,” said Mr Yates. "The questibn of extension to other centres will be considered in the light of the experience in Dunedin and the circumstances at each centre.”