Broadcast From Canoe On Avon

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29938, 27 September 1962, Page 12

Broadcast From Canoe On Avon

The lunch-hour programme from 3ZB tomorrow will be conducted from a canoe on the Avon river, near the Bridge of Remembrance. This is one of a number of items planned by the station to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary.

The breakfast session from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. tomorrow will feature records popular in 1937 and in the few proceeding years. The announcers will be Miss G. Green and Mr E. Chivers (“Chiv”) who were at the station when it began broadcasts in 1937. Miss Green is still on the staff and is the programme arranger for the celebrations. Mr Chivers now has other employment in the city. Artists who will feature on the breakfast session include Bing Crosby, Diana Durbin. Fred Astaire, Billy Cotton, Layton ahd Johnstone and Frank Crumit.

At 11.30 a.m. a vintage car will take Messrs J. Craig, E. Grundy, Misses J. Turpin and M. Stanbridgc to the Avon river, near Cashel street. A new transistor transmitter will be used for the first time for a broadcast in Christchurch. The size of the transmitter is a little larger than a cigarette packet and it can fit in the announcer’s pocket. It contains its own battery. The microphone is placed around the announcer’s neck and a small aerial can be easily accommodated in a pocket. The signals from the transmitter are radiated to a receiving station no more than 100 yards from the announcer. From the receiving station the signals are sent back to the station in the same way as any other outside live broadcast.

The manager of 3ZB (Mr C. H. Cook) said yesterday the new transmitter could revolutionise outside broadcasting. There was no need to take tape recordings and the announcer was free to move about more. He said the party broad, casting from the canoe tomorrow will indulge in "> little bit of nonsense” and modernised records of the late 1930’s will be played. Friday Gazette, from 8 p.m. to 8.30 p.m,, will be devoted to reminiscences of the last 25 years and from 9.30 p m. to 10 p.m. old tunes will be played. Frqpi 11 p.m. to 12 p.m. there will be a pro-

gramme featuring popular records from 1937 to the present. On Sunday evening, Sunday Magazine will be made up recordings of messages made* when the station celebrated its twenty-first anniversary four years ago. This programme is from 7.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. From 4.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. there will be a session of vintage discs while the programme throughout the afternoon will feature snippets of the last quarter of a century.