{"id":213474,"date":"2026-01-02T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213474\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:55:13","slug":"broadcast-marks-historic-rugby-radio-stations-100th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213474\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast marks historic Rugby Radio Station&#8217;s 100th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugby Radio Station became the UK&#8217;s base for radio telephony and made the first transatlantic voice transition in January 1927 which was sent to Houlton, in Maine, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also sent the time signal, maritime and submarine communications and played key roles in World War Two. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It could broadcast a message so powerful that it would be picked up by almost every ship at sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After closing, part of the building that was used to house the transmitter was saved and developed into the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby Radio Station became the UK&#8217;s base for radio telephony and made the first transatlantic voice transition in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-213474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}