MIDNIGHT BROADCAST

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 33, 11 March 1930, Page 5

MIDNIGHT BROADCAST

BYRD'S MEN TO CONVERSE WITH NEW YORK. OPPORTUNITY FOR NAPIER RADIO ENTHUSIASTS. Napier wireless enthusiasfcs will he interested to hear that arrangements have been made for lvireless inter-com-munication between New Zealand and New York at midniglit to-night. The ball will be set rolliug by OVIr A. G. Henderson, manager of the Christchurch Star, who will conduct a conversation with the editor of the New York Times. Mr Russell Owen, press representative with the Byrd expedition, ua 11 be the next oue to converse with America and he will be followed by Rear-Admiral Byrd. The New York wireless station has issued an invitation to all relatives or others who desire to tallc to members of the crew to do so and members of the crew who wisli to communicate with friends in Neiv York have been advised to he at the station at Dunedin in readiness. The Paramount Newsreel authorities will be in the studio in New York and will take a sound fihn of what comes over. This will later be presented to New Zealand. The conversations will he rebroadcast from 2YA Wellington, commencing at midnieht to-night and no doubt numbers of Napier listeners will avail themselves of tlie opportunity offered and listen in well into the early morning hours.