[IRCA] Samoa Samoa - Radio Heritage Media Release

[Geralyn Hollerman <lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

For anyone interested:
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Samoa Samoa
Samoan Radio Journey & ZMAP
Apia, Samoa tell more stories
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The Radio Heritage Foundation continues to expand its coverage of
Samoan radio media history with the release of two new features at
its global website www.radioheritage.net.

'While in Apia, I decided to start a radio station' confided former
RNZAF [Royal NZ Air Force] technician Alan Roycroft when reminiscing
about his early days in Pacific radio.

You'll read about nightly dance band broadcasts from the back porch
of the famous Aggie Greys hotel, Alan's network of 'news spies'
around Apia and learn the reason why, in some 120 studio
installations from then on, he always positioned the console so that
the announcer sat facing the door.

What started as a converted aeronautical beacon broadcasting 'AP AP
AP' as the identification for Apia, became 'pirate radio' ZMAP and
later gave birth to the familiar 2AP known fondly by generations of
Samoans.

A mid-1990's 'Samoan Radio Journey' is another new feature at
www.radioheritage.net.

'We turned a corner on the Cross Island Road, and there sat a stumpy
little radio tower, almost hidden in the misty rain'. A personal
exploration of the broadcasting scene in Samoa at the time describes
how the local audiences embraced popular culture from around the
Pacific via their radio sets and TV screens. 

Both stories include unique images of radio facilities and historic
radio memorabilia from around Samoa, and build on a growing number of
features about Samoa and American Samoa already on-line at
www.radioheritage.net.

As well as ZMAP Apia, Samoa and Samoan Radio Journey, you'll enjoy
Samoan Radio Sale [backgrounding the sale of 2AP Radio], Radio in
Samoa [including 5ZA Apia from the 1930's], This is WVUV [memories
from a WVUV Pago Pago DJ] and WVUV Radio Romance [personal memories
of the US sailor who fell in love and built the original WVUV Radio
during WWII].

This comprehensive coverage of early and contemporary radio in the
two Samoas forms part of the ongoing Pacific radio heritage project
undertaken by the Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.net.

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Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
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