Mr Lionel Sceats
PA Wellington A former Director-Gen-eral of Broadcasting, Mr Lionel Sceats, has died, aged 74. It was under Mr Sceats’ directorship from 1970 to 1975 that the corporation underwent its first re structuring. In 1975 the unified service was divided into four separate units — the Broadcasting Council, Radio New Zealand, and two television corporations.
The present DirectorGeneral of Radio New Zealand, Ms Beverley Wakem, said Mr Sceats’ directorship saw public broadcasting expanded and developed, and his contribution to setting it on a. sound basis was considerable. Presiding over the re structuring would have been an “unenviable task” and she understood he felt at the time that some value was being lost with it.
She believed he had some regrets seeing the unified system he had worked in and known for so long broken up, feeling it might weaken the service. Mr Sceats was born in Gisborne in 1913, and educated at Otago University. He was director of sound broadcasting from 1963 to 1970 and was made a C.B.E. in 1977. He is survived by a son and a daughter.
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