RADIO BROADCASTS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20556, 6 March 1935, Page 13

RADIO BROADCASTS.

A New Station for Wellington. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 5. The New Zealand Broadcasting Board announces that tenders have been called for a national transmitter to be erected within twenty miles of Wellington with a power of sixty kilowatts aerial energy. Tenders will close early in June. The station should be operating in about a year from that time. It will be possible to hear the proposed station day and night all over the Dominion. B Radio Stations. There has been considerable speculation among listeners who enjoy the programmes provided by the B broadcasting stations concerning their future when under the sway of the Broadcasting Board. Many people imagined, when it was announced that the board was to take over the stations, that the Government would replace present officials with men selected by the board. An emphatic denial to these rumours was given by the Prime Minister, the Right Hon G. W. Forbes, last evening. In the course of an interview he stated that the value of B stations was recognised by the Government and there would be no detrimental interference with them. There would be no ousting of . present officials and he considered the stations would be much better under the new arrangement than they had been in the past. Mr Forbes emphasised the fact that there would be no attempt to do away with the stations, and suggested that they would be fostered.