TELECASTS FROM 1YA
Regular Programmes Start Next Week (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 14. New Zealand’s first official regular television programme will begin on Monday at 8.15 p.m. and will continue at the same time every Monday until further notice. It will come from the IYA transmitter in Shortland street, and will last for about an hour and three-quarters. A picture card announcing that the telecast is coming from Auckland on Channel 2 will be shown first. This will be followed by test cards and then films of “an instructional educational nature,” as outlined by the Minister of Broadcasting (Mr Boord) in his recent statement. “Once again I must emphasise that the programmes are still purely experimental and the films shown will be educational and not comedies or features,” said Mr J. H. Gault, regional engineer of the Broadcasting Service, today. “The broadcasts will be primarily intended for the use of our technicians in adjusting our equipment and also for persons with sets to line them up and to study television so that they can make representations to the Government committee studying it.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28895, 15 May 1959, Page 12
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