GEIC Broadcasting
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Service Progresses
THE Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony’s infant broadcasting service, operated largely with donated equipment and labour, has passed another milestone.
A small building has been com pleted from salvaged materials to be the home of Radio Tarawa’s two outlets —VTW on the broadcast band, for very local consumption, and the more powerful VSZ-10 on shortwave for the Colony’s distant listeners.
Hours of broadcastings are still limited, due to staffing and pro gramme-material problems.
The broadcast-band station VTW, with a radiated power of only 30 watts, on 844 kc/s comes on the air for one hour from 7.30 pm each Friday. The short-wave station VSZ-10 on 6050 kc/s (49-metre band) with 500 watts output, is on the air each Sunday at 4.30 p.m. for about an hour. t NZ citrus growers are reported to be worried at the prospect of larger Cook Islands exports.
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