OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 12, 15 January 1937, Page 15

OVER THE AERIAL.

RADIO NOTES. FROM FAR AND NEAR,

(By TUNE-IN.)

At the end of November the number of radio licenses in Australia, had reached 577.547, almost one for every 13 of the population of the Ccmiruonwealth. New Zealand can do much better than that, as the average here is more like one in eight. A few owners of crystal sets in Tiniaru have been reasonably proud of "getting" 3YA and 4YA, but a Queenslander, living 40 miles from Brisbane, claims that on a crystal he has received 17 stations, among these being SCK (South Australia), TNT (Tasmania), 3LO, and the Sydney thousand-watters 2KY and 2CH. The Director of Broadcasting, Professor Shelley, arrived in Auckland on Tuesday on his first official visit to the city. What with attending the- Science Congress and transacting business' at IYA, his time has been fully occupied here. Professor Shelley returns to Wellington to-morrow. The supervisor of talks, Mr. Alan M. Mulgan, is also visiting Auckland on business. A Sydney announcer makes the following pertinent observation, which' applies in New Zealand as well as in Australia: "The listening public prefer that when a foreign title has to be announced, its English' translation shall be given, as the majority of people arc not conversant with "many foreign languages. On the other hand, those who know, a particular foreign language must be amused—or annoyed—at some pronunciations by announcers."

Bill Hindman's sports session from IZJI last night was entirely taken up with a lino programme labelled "Believe It or Not." "Undo Ed." and "Aunt Gwen" (Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Culver) of station 2ZJ, Hastings, who are on holiday ill Auckland, were introduced to listeners. Mr. and Mrs. Culver, also their son Leslie, gave musical and vocal items. The old-time horseman, Jack Kae, spoke in reminiscent strain of big events on the New Zealand turf, while Dudley Wrathall, the well-known radio personality and former IZB announcer, also addressed listeners. Mr. \\ 7 :athall has now taken up the position of programme director of the Bill Hindman Kadio Sports Club. Mr. Hindman gave some outsize in sporting records. The whole programme was interspersed with ■some line sporting recordings, and altogether the free and easy type of programme was a most enjoyable one.

I On 'Monday, January 23, the official opening ceremony in connection with 2YA's new transmitter at Titahi Bay will be robroadcast by IYA and the two . otlicr national stations. For the first concert session to be broadcast by the new transmitter, putting (iO kilowatts into the a&rial, all the YA stations will provide items. lYA's contribution will bo tiie Shaw play, "How He Lied To Her Husband,' 'produced by Mr. J. M. Clark. Wellington will provide items by the specially augmented orchestra, with Miss Ava Symons as solo violinist; and 3YA C'hristchurch will present a programme by tiie Christchurch Harmonic Society; and the pianist, A T oel Newson, Margiierita Zcalundia, Wilfred Kershaw and Gil Deeh will represent Dunedin in vocal and musical items, while items will be gi'-ttn by the Wangamii District Maori Entertainers. A feature of the special programme is to be a specially arranged dramatic review, "In Such Short Time," by Will Yates. The Director of Broadcasting, Professor Shelley, Mr. Alan McElwain and Mr. Karl Atkinson will act as narrators of the review, which deals with the development of broadcasting in New Zealand.

FROM IYA NEXT .WEEK. Sunday—o.o a.m., selected recordings; 11.0, relay or service from the Mount Ldeu Congregational Church; 1.0 to 2.0, dinner music; 2.0 to 1.30, selected recordings, featuring, at 3.30, Leopold Godowsky playing Hie ".Piano sonata In li Flat Minor" (runeral march) by Chopin; 7.0, relay or service rrom the Pitt street Methodist Church; 8.30, concert by the Auckland Municipal Band, relayed rrom Albert Park. Monday—S.O p.m., concert programme, featuring mo radio play "Quartet in Four Movements," a play about jealousy between members of a ramous quartet, pro-duced-In the studio by Koran Whineray; 0.5 talk by l'rol'cssor W. G. Woolnough, D.Pc, Deparlment or the Interior, Canberra, '"I'lie Search For Oil"; rollowed by selections by Hie studio orchestra; 10.0 to 11.0 music, mirth and melodv, Tuesday—7.3o p.m., r/ook review; S.O, concert programme, reaturlng Jean MacFaiiane, contralto; 0.20 to 11.0, dance programme. Wednesday—S.O p.m., concert programme, reaturlng the string quartet, conducted by Harold Baxter; Gllmour w. McConnell, pianist; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody. Thursday—S.O p.m., theme programme, "The Legend or the Bells"; 0.20, recital or band music, with studio Items by Vera Moginie, soprano'; 10.0 to 11.0, "Best Sellers," a programme or popular dance numbers. Friday—7.3o p.m., sports talk by Gordon nutter; 8.0, concert programme, recorded; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody. Saturday—7.3o p.m., talk by the gardening expert; 8.0, concert programme, reaturlng Norman Izett, pianist; Stewart Harvey, baritone: Dorothy Baker, violinist; Gwcnda Weir, soprano; rollowed by recorded numbers, orchestral and vocal; 10.10 to l 1.10, dance music