MEW 1YA STUDIO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18313, 3 February 1934, Page 12

MEW IYA STUDIO

TOTAL COST OF £40,000 Although no official announcement regarding cost has been made, it is understood the price for the new studio iu Auckland for the IYA (Station is slightly less than £37,000, and that for the heating and ventilation plant between £3OOO and £4OOO. . < Tho studio will be completed within eight months, and th/aktransinitter to be installed near will be ready at about the same time. Before the end of the year Auckland will possess an entirely new broadcasting station of a .power greater tflan that of 2YA, Wellington. Tenders for the transmitting -plant, which will-be erected on an area lOf 15! acres near Lincoln Road Bridge, about two and a-half miles beyond Henderson township on the Wayf’to Helensviile, 'are now .being considered by the Broadcasting Board. Cardful investigation is necessary 'before decision is reached owing to the progress being made in the science. jof broadcasting. Possibly a .single ‘fall mast will be used in place pf the 'Customary two to hold the aerial, wJUch would hang at an angle from the jtop of the mast. The new studio willbe of reinforced brick, with ' <Soifeijete : floors and reinforcing beams of 'Concrete. A reinforced concrete building would be unsuitable because of its conductivity of sound. ,'■