Pacific radio heritage celebrated

A website has been established to celebrate the story of radio broadcasting in the Pacific region. It also provides a home for a wide variety of radio heritage activities, exhibitions, archives, research and advocacy projects covering New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific Islands and countries around the Pacific Rim.

"Radio has a long history in the Pacific" says Radio Heritage Foundation chairman David Ricquish, who also suggests that New Zealand’s Lord Rutherford may have been the true father of radio instead of Marconi.

Currently the website contains information about Foundation projects, radio heritage and a selection of articles from its on-line archives. "We have hundreds of articles and thousands of images already available from our collections", says David Ricquish, "and we’ll be bringing these on-line as fast as resources allow. Our definition of "heritage" is anything up to a nano-second ago, so contemporary radio issues are as important to us as those of the 1920’s or any other era."

The Radio Heritage Foundation is a non-profit charity based in Wellington, New Zealand. Board members include prominent broadcasters from New Zealand, Australia and Europe and a growing number of contributors and volunteers located across the Pacific from the USA, Canada and Japan, to Australia and New Zealand.