Production studio to open soon

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 4

Production studio to open soon

The most up-to-date television production stuidio in New Zealand will |be fully commissioned in Christchurch on Monday. Known as Studio Four, it is part of the corporation’s television complex in Gloucester Street.

The studio was built about three years ago and since has been used for limited productions. But six months ago corporation designers and engineers in Christchurch began a development programme that will raise Studio Four above anything else offering at the moment. Studio Four, with its multiplicity of lighting equipment capable of producing the equivalent of 100,000 watts, is about 2700 square feet in area.

Three new Image Orthicon cameras glide across meticulously polished floors; lights vary in their intensity according to a light memory control system up on the mezzanine floor,This light memory control system is just one of a number of features that place Studio Four above all others. All lighting requirements for a production are pre-selected and at the push of a button are brought into effect. It is all made possible by a “brain” made up of about 100,000 transistors. This equipment was designed and built by the N.Z.B.C.

The nerve centre is the production control room, with its eight monitors and back-lit panelling to provide standard references for the producer and his secretary, vision mixer, technical producer, camera Control operator and lighting director. The corporation expects to step up TV production in

(Christchurch, and Studio ii Four will be the focal point;! for this. But its commissioning on ’ Monday will also mean i greater use being made of l Studio Three, from which “The South Tonight" comes : live every evening. Up to 1

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: Headline news. 2.03: On Camera. 2.46: The Doctors. Drama. 3.08: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (repeat). 3.56: Galloping Gourmet. Cooking. 4.19: Funny Company. z . v 4.24: Hat, Stick and Cloak. Children (new series). 4.34: The Magic Roundabout. 439: The Flintstones. Cartoon (repeat). 5.04: Skippy. Adventure. 5.29: Headline news, weather. 5.32: Is This Your Career?—Clerical work. Documentary. 5.44: Lost in Space. Science fiction. 6.40: In Your Garden. With John Oliver. 7.00: Network news. 7.20: Weather. . The South Tonight. 7.46: Coronation Street. 8.16: The Andy Williams Show. Variety. 9.12: Newsbrief. 9.14: Gallery. Current affairs. 9.42: McCloud—“The Stage is All The World.” Drama. 1037: Mr Digby Darling—“ Wine”. Comedy (final). 11.05: Late news, weather.

NATIONAL LINK (Including 3YA Christchurch (690 kilohertz); 2YA Wellington (570 kilohertz); 4YA Dunedin (750 kilohertz); and 3YZ Greymouth (920 kilohertz)] 7.0 p.m.: N.Z.B.C. Sports News. 7.20: Gardening Session. 7.30: New Zealand in Perspective A Personal View: Allan Pyatt, Anglican Bishop of Christchurch (2). 7.45: Light Music from the Netherlands. 8.0: The Prickly Thistle Club (N.Z.8.C.). 8.30: Weather and News. 9.0: National Youth Brass Band 1971. Conductor, Norman Goffln. Carr: Fancy Free; Windsor: valse brillante; Gregson: Suite: Voice of Youth; Hanmer: March with a Beat (N.Z.8.C.). 930: The Archers. 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News, Comment, Weather. 10.45: Hand Me Dbwn. 11.0: 8.8. C. News and Commentary. 11.15: Indoor Basketball Report. 11.18: Table Tennis Report. 11.21: All night programme with Mike Lynch.

3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz) 7.0 p.m.) Richard Rodney Bennett —Cycle: The music that her echo is. 7.16: Tippett: Quartet No. 3—Fidelio Quartet. 7.47: Boyce: Symphony. No. 1 in B flat. 8.0: The History of the Viola. 8.33: Berhoz: Symphonic futiebre et triomphale. 9.9: Clarke: Almand in D, Rondo in A, Jig in A. 9.15: Waiting for Ruaumoko —Ruaumoko is the Polynesian earthquake god. 9.30: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Resurrection).

3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilohertz) 7.2 p.m.: Hit Wave! 8.2: World Records on the Air. 8.30: Free for All. 9.10: Beat the Bell. 9.20: Guess the Guest Game. 10.2: Looking Back.

3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilohertz) 7.30 p.m.: Things are Swinging. 10.0: Rock Explosion: 10.30: From the Top Pops. ___ ===== _____

[now this smaller studio has ;had to share its facilities. The first major production in Studio Four will be the drama “A Small Celebration” by Hamish Keith. Another drama and a ballet are scheduled for production later this year.