Tea party will mark start of Poly tech radio

Press, 21 July 1986, Page 18

Tea party will mark start of Poly tech radio

By

MARGARET BAKER

A Mad Hatters tea party in Cathedral Square on Friday will launch two weeks of broadcasting by the Polytechnic radio station, Plains Radio, Radio One.

The two-week programme is part of the broadcasting training course at the Polytechnic and the station will be on air for six hours a day from July 28. Helping the 15 students promote their radio station at the mid-day tea party will be actors from the Court Theatre, who will re-enact Lewis Carroll’s story as well as hand out cups of tea and publicity information to the unsuspecting public.

The promotions manager for the station, Bovrll Augusti, says a variety of interviews with local per-

sonalities, including DavIna Whitehouse, Fergie McCormick, Ken Ellis and Jam& Daniels, have been planned for the two weeks, as well as preschool, rock and alternative music shows. "We have most of the material available to public radio stations, and we can also afford to broadcast news and specialist programmes that may only be of Interest to minority groups.” Augusti says on-the-spot news teams will be scouting Christchurch for “scoops,” and the shows will have a definite Canterbury emphasis. The timetable for the station, on 92.1 FM, is: Monday, 6 a.m. — noon. Tuesday, 9 a.m. — 3 p.m. Wednesday, noon — 6 p.m. Thursday, 3 p.m. — 9 p.m. Friday, midnight — 6 a.m. Saturday, 6 a.m. — noon.