BBC targets
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Pacific
IT HAS been reported that the
British Broadcasting Corpora
tion is planning to install new, high-powered shortwave transmit ters m New Zealand in order to better relay its World Service prog rams to trie South Pacific region.
The BBC has been searching for a way to increase its coverage of the
region since the Fijian military
coup when it found that its signal could not be reliably heard in that country.
The British move follows deci sion by both Radio New Zealand and Radio Australia to improve their services to the South Pacific.
In fact, it is apparently the RNZ decision to develop a new short wave transmitting base in the cen tral North Island which has made possible the BBC extension it plans to erect its masts on the same site.
The South Pacific is the one ma
jor region without strong signals
from London.