75 Years of Kiwi Radio
Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
Radio 2YD
Wellington
Radio 2ZB Wellington
75 Years of Kiwi
Radio
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One of the greatest
radio ambushes in New Zealand radio history took
place in
the last week of April 1937, and two new features from
the
Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.com celebrate the
75th
anniversary of this cheeky event.
Commercial
station 2ZB was launching with much fanfare on April
28
but was upstaged by commercial sounding [but
non-commercial] station
2YD launching on April
25.
Feature Station 2YD Wellington Ambush
www.radioheritage.net/story259.asp
includes original surprised press
reports, a rare
listener card issued for the first day of broadcast
and
personal memories from a former 2YD technician.
Radio 2YD
introduced such popular radio serials as 'Dad and Dave'
and
'Fred and Maggie Everybody' to Kiwi audiences, later
becoming 2ZM
before joining the now Auckland based ZMFM
music network that still
operates in Wellington
today.
Meanwhile, 2ZB Wellington 75 Years Early
Personalities is the second
new feature found at www.radioheritage.net/story258.asp
which
introduces many favorite Kiwi radio stars such as
Aunt Daisy and
Selwyn Toogood.
Packed with long lost
images of early personalities and other 2ZB
memorabilia,
this 75th anniversary feature will bring back
happy
memories for older listeners and give today's
listeners a taste of
the legacy of what has now become
the local outlet of the Auckland
based NewstalkZB
network.
Radio 2YD and Radio 2ZB, two stations from 1937
that illustrate how
even state radio could spring
surprises on themselves and their
listeners. For the
stories of these and other New Zealand, Australian
and
Pacific radio broadcasters see hundreds of features at
www.radioheritage.com today.
Radio
Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit
organization
connecting radio, popular culture, history
and heritage.
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