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Hillary State Funeral: International Live Coverage
MEDIA RELEASE
Date: Wednesday 16 January
2008 for Immediate Release – 2
pages
State Funeral for Sir
Edmund Hillary
International Live
Coverage
Radio New Zealand will provide extensive coverage of the state funeral for Sir Edmund Hillary from St. Mary’s Church in Auckland on Tuesday 22nd January.
As the official radio broadcaster Radio New Zealand will ensure New Zealanders all over the world have the opportunity to be part of a very significant time of national reflection and commemoration.
Radio New Zealand will broadcast the entire service live and will live-stream via the Radio New Zealand website www.radionz.co.nz for international audiences, allowing New Zealanders living or holidaying overseas to share this important occasion with their friends and families back home.
People in the Pacific and parts of South East Asia listening on short wave will be able to tune in to Radio New Zealand International on the frequencies of 15,720 kHz for the analogue service, and 17,675 kHz for DRM.
For those unable to listen to Radio New
Zealand’s live coverage, a recording of the service will
be available on the website to be replayed as
audio-on-demand and as a podcast.
Radio New Zealand coverage will begin from 6.00 am on Tuesday morning ( NZ time ). Morning Report and Nine to Noon will use respected senior broadcasters including Geoff Robinson and Jack Perkins and a team of news reporters in the lead up to live coverage of the funeral service which will commence at 10.30 am.
The Radio New Zealand website is featuring several
audio on demand programmes covering the life and times of
Sir Edmund Hillary, including an obituary by Morning
Report’s Geoff Robinson and two special documentaries
produced by Jack Perkins for Radio New Zealand National.
Everest And Beyond, a tribute to the
extraordinary life and achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary
was first broadcast on Friday 11th January and It’s
One Thing To Climb A Mountain is a special three-part
series tracing the late Sir Edmund Hillary’s extraordinary
life from the conquest of Everest onwards.
The programmes
highlight the largely untold stories of those who were
shoulder-to-shoulder with Sir Ed on his expeditions to
remote corners of the world and during his humanitarian
activities with Nepal’s Sherpa people.
ENDS
Editors Note:
In the interests of allowing full coverage of Sir Edmund
Hillary's life and work, Radio New Zealand will grant
broadcasters and other media free non-commercial
non-exclusive license to use audio in live broadcasts and
packaged material on the internet (including podcasts).
Terms and conditions of use are available on the Radio
New Zealand
website.
ENDS
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