OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1934, Page 14

OVER THE AERIAL.

! RADIO NOTES. PROM FAR AND NEAR. (By TUNE-IN.) A London school of broadcasting lias been opened in Bond Street, with studios equipped to give the atmosphere of a broadcasting house and a recording system, which enables anyone undergoing a voice test to hear his mistakes a, minute or so after he has made them.

Good reports concerning the reception of the new 10 k.w. IYA transmitter continue to pour in at the station. Listeners in distant localities, where they previously could not hear the Auckland station, arc loud in their praise of the new transmitter, which is now received by them at good volume.

The announcer at IZB had a busy time on Christmas morning during the special children's session. In three hours lie broadcast 110 less than 1300 messages to children, telling tliem where they would find their presents, and when he concluded there were still more to be put over the air. These messages were dispatched at a later session.

While at Government House the Duke of Gloucester had two radio sets at liis disposal. One was an Australian made seven-valve all-wave mantel model, which he takes with him on his tour, and the other was supplied by the Post and Telegraph Department for general use. Unfortunately His Royal Highness was unable to hear every word his Royal father spoke during the special Empire exchange broadcast 011 the morning of Boxing Day, owing to the bad atmospherics, which considerably spoilt reception.

The Boxing Day relay of the special Empire Christmas broadcast carried out by IYA from the Post and Telegraph receiving shack at Brown's Bay, was probably the last occasion on which that line will be used for short-wave rebroadcasts. It is proposed in future to utilise a short-wave receiving set at the board's property at Henderson. This area, when recently tested, was found to be an ideal spot for short-wave reception.

A special Christmas broadcast was given from KFI, Los Angeles, on Sunday evening last, and quite a number of listeners heard the programme, which had been arranged and directed by Miss Nola Luxford, of Hollywood, but formerly of Wellington, where she was well known. Many Australians and New Zealanders took part in the broadcast which Miss Luxford arranged to extend the hand of friendship over the sea.

The New Zealand Broadcasting Board announces that it has secured the 2se"\v Zealand broadcasting lights of a new humorous recorded feature entitled Ihe Country Storekeepers, Eb and Zeb," a comedy serial which it intends to present from the main stations in 10minute instalments at regular intervals during the next few months. These features are said to be excellent entertainment. The listeners will be the judges.

A special New Year Eve dance programme will be broadcast from station IZM on Monday next, December 31, for the benefit of those listeners who are ushering in 1935 with private dance parties. The regular week-day programme will be transmitted between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., and from then onward till 2 a.m. on New Year's Day special dance music will be put over the air. A holiday dance programme will also be broadcast on New Year's Night from 8 o'clock till midnight.

The 2ZR Radio Club, Nelson, through its president, Mr. C. T. Webley, has received advice that a grant of £100 had been made to the station by the Government. The grant is not in the form of a subsidy from the Broadcasting Board, but a straight-out grant from the Government, and applies to this year only. Mr. Webley said that the grant was greatly appreciated by the club. Though there was no mention of an annual subsidy, it was reasonable to think that the Government grant was the first step towards 2ZR being officially recognised by the Broadcasting Board.

Lord SeTsdon, chairman of the British Government's Special Post Office Committee, arid three associates, are making a study of American television progress. The group will conduct extensive research, with the assistance of American engineers," and it is likely that their final report will influence future English experimentation. Lord Selsdon believes that the major problems of television are financial rather than technical. He views the British and Continental system of radio taxation or licensing as conducive to its advancement. The revenue secured from such license fees, he contends, can be diverted into experimental work more effectively than in the system of the advertiser sponsoring programmes. While Baird Television, Ltd., and Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., are the best known of the English television research firms, there are foup or five other companies silently active in this work, he said, in New York. FROM 1 Yfl NEXT WEEK. Sunday—ll a.m., relay of service from Mount Eden Congregational Church; 7 p.m., relay of service from Salvation Army Congress Hall; 8.:(0 p.m., concert programme including, at 9.2 p.m., the special 8.8.C. recorded programme, " We Shall Remember Them," in memory or those who lost their lives in the Great War. Monday—B p.m. (relay to IZH), concert programme (recorded); 9.2 p.m., special programme "An Hour's Musical Gossip"; 10.15 p.m., special old-time ind modern dance programme by the studio orchestra; midnight, chimes from Ferry Building and a description or Queen Street trafllc; 12.10 a.m., epilogue and close down. Tuesday—B p.m. (relay to IZH), programme of recordings; 9.20 p.m., presentation or 8.8.C. recorded programme, " The Fifth Form at St. Pontefract's," a burlesque of school li£e; 10.0 to 11.30, dance music. Wednesday—B p.m., programme of chamber music (recorded); 9.20 to 11.0, dance music. Thursday—B p.m. (relay to IZH), recorded concert programme; 9.20, operatic excerpts; 10.10 p.m., relay from 3YA or a talk by Dr. J. B. CondlifTe on " The Economic and Financial Work of the League or Nations." Friday—B p.m. (relay to fZtl), concert] programme reaturing studio orchestra and ( recordings; 10.0, favourites old and new; l 10.30 to 11.0, dance .music. i Saturday—B p.m., concert programme; j 9.2, old-time dance programme until 11.10 I p.m.