Pirate Radio Backed For TV
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 28. A company registered in Auckland as International Advertisers, Ltd., with a paid-up capital of £25,000, has announced it will begin radio and television transmission from a 300-ton ship in the Hauraki Gulf in the next few months.
The station manager of Radio International, Mr K. R. Ashton, said this company had absorbed his previous organisation, Radio Southern Cross, and that a group of Auckland businessmen had completed negotiations for radio and TV equipment. Radio broadcasts were tentatively scheduled to begin on September 1, and experimental TV would begin in January.
Mr Ashton said Radio International would operate 24 hours a day from a steel- hulled ship. The company had applied to the Government for licensed radio and TV transmitters. If they were not approved the company would operate in international waters.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31124, 29 July 1966, Page 3
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