GREAT RADIO CITY.
NEW YORK SCHEME. THREE YEARS' WORK ENTAILED. NEW YORK. June 8. Workmen have started tearing down the city to build a. new one in the heart of Manhattan. Four great (steam shovels are biting great chunks out of the brownstone houses, which formerly comprised the most aristocratic section of the city, to make way for a £50,000,000 radio city, sponsored by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun. About 240 buildings, some modern, some erected in 1875, are being razed. It is expected that the demolition and construction work will occupy at least three years, by which time,' Wit is expected, television will have reached a commercially practicable stage. The most advanced type of broadcasting equipment and studios will be included, with ample provision for television transmission, and a movie theatre and another theatre will bo included in the group of' buildings. Those behind the project plan the eventual establishment of about 800 "local" broadcasting stations in the United States, under tho aegis of Radio City*"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20901, 17 June 1931, Page 9
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