Micronesia to Have
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Commercial Radio
FIRST commercial broadcasting station to be established any where in the Pacific Islands outside Hawaii is opening at Guam.
A private-station monopoly has been granted to an American busi ness man, Mr. Harry Engel, for an undisclosed period.
Programme material will be under certain supervision.
Engel, who may later establish a television station at Guam, thinks the monopoly will be a highly pro
fitable venture from the advertising point of view. Guam has a popu lation of about 70,000, including 20,000 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos; in addition, the station (which will supplant the present Armed Forces Radio Service station), will serve most of the rest of the Trust Territory of Micronesia through its transmitter KUAM.
Mr. D. T. Lloyd, Senior Surveyor and Lands Officer in Sierra Leone, has been appointed Deputy Direc tor of Lands in Fiji. He is 36 and is a graduate of Bristol University.