LOCAL BROADCASTING

Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 11

LOCAL BROADCASTING

PROGRAMMES FOR THE MONTH Broadcasting on a, wave-length of 380 metres, radio station 4YA can bo heard almost any night in all parts of New Zealand and even Australia. Occasionally distant reports come to hand stating that tho station is subject to fading, hut it is quite p.rohablo that this was due to atmospherics, as it has been noticed here that the Australian stations fade just as much. Generally the transmissions from the local stations are quite satisfactory, the programmes being favorably commented upon all over the dominion. The studio is provided with a player-piano and a gramophone, the music from the latter being greatly in demand. Aunt Diana’s talks to the children arc bocoming_ increasingly popular, and she receives numerous letters'of thanks every day.

The station is operated by Mr E. North, who controls the three panels in the transmitting room. Tho first panel contains the amplifier, the second the transmitting apparatus, and the third the power control. In a separate room the batteries, charging equipment, and the high-tension generators are kept. Alf the’latest improvements are tiscd in tho studio, the walls of which arc looselv draped with serge. Relay lines to His Majesty’s Theatre, Empire Theatre, Burns Hall, Savoy, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Knox-Church, First Church, and the Central Mission are installed. A spare line connects to the Exchange. Three switches are used for fhe microphones, one .of which broadcasts tho Town Hall clock chimes. Tho following programmes will he broadcast from 4YA during this month :—To-night: Relay of Orphans’ Club ladies’ night from the Savoy. August 4: Studio concert and Empire Theatre Orchestra. 5: Studio concert and Savoy Novelty Band. 7: Musical feast, relayed from His Majesty’s Theatre. 8: Central Mission service and St. Hilda Band. 9: Studio concert bv the Band’of the Ist Battalion of tho Otago Regiment. 10: Allan Young’s, Ltd?, concert party from tho studio. 11; Studio concert- and Empire Theatre Orchestra. 13; Studio concert ami Savoy Novelty Band: 14: Dunedin Choral Society from His Majesty’s Theatre. 15: Service from Knox Church ami Kaikorai Band. 16: Gramophone recital, 1 The Gondoliers. 17: Arthur Barnett’s. Ltd., concert party from tho studio. 18: Studio concert and Empire Theatre concert. 20: Studio concert and Savoy Novelty Band. 21; Not vet decided, upon. 22; Service from" First Church. 23: Not yet decided upon. 24: Mr F. C. Cooper’s pupils from studio. 25; Studio concert and Empire Theatre Orchestra. 27: Studio concert and Savoy Novelty Band. 28; Lecture with vocal examples. ‘Songs of the Nations,’ by Mr John T. Leech. 29; St. Paul’s service and Kaikorai Band -30; Gramophone recital, ‘Yeoman of tho Guard.’ 31: Bristol Piano Company’s concert and other concerts.