| | MILESAGO - Radio - Top 40 Radio and the Pop Charts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Radio was the first instantaneous mass-communication medium; it could be broadcast over great distances; remote stations could be (and very quickly were) linked together into national networks to broadcast common programming over vast areas, whereas newspapers were mostly focussed on the cities in which they were produced. |
 | | Radio airplay was recognised as a major factor in gaining as much exposure for a song as possible, but unlike today, where record sales are the benchmark, in the 1930s it was sales of sheet music (which was considerably cheaper than a record). |
 | | Radio Hauraki made its final marine broadcast on 1 June 1970, finishing at 1pm with the first song it had played back in 1966, Matt Munro's Born Free, but in a tragic postscript, announcer Rick Grant was lost overboard as the Tiri II returned to Auckland Harbour on 2 June. |
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