WORLD SHORT WAVE PROGRAMMES

Evening Star, Issue 22542, 9 January 1937, Page 4

WORLD SHORT WAVE PROGRAMMES

(All times are New Zealand Summer.) TO-DAY 5 ip.m.: SLR—Sporting commentaries and results (continued). 5.5: DJA— German folk song. 5.10: Week-end music. 6: DJA—News /in German. 6.15: Week-end music (continued). 6.55: DJA—‘ Greetings to Our Listeners.’ 7: DJA—News and economic review in English. 7.15 : ‘ To-day in Germany.’ 7.30: DJA —Military concert. 8.15: DJA— 1 China,’ a fairy play by Manfred Kyber. SLR—Recorded music. 8.45: A commentary fronv Hobart on the day’s play in the cricket match, England v. Tasmania. DJA— Request concert: ‘ Hallo, Hallo I You

Request and We Play.’ 8.53: SLR— Sporting session, conducted by A.B.C. commentator. 9.20: SLR—National news bulletin. 9.30: DJA-—News and economic review in German. SLR— Victorian news bulletin, including cricket scores in brief. 9.40: The A.B.C. (Melbourne) Wireless Chorus, in a presentation of famous negro spirituals. 9.45 : DJA—Women’s hour, ‘ The Beautiful Melusine.’ 10: VK3ME —‘ Around the World with the Dance Bands.’ SLR— ‘ Dance Music of the Great Composers,’ presented by the A.B.C. (Melbourne) Concert Orchestra. 10.30: VPD2—One and a-half hours’ variety programme. 10.55: TPA2—Day’s programme. DJA—German folk song. 11: VK3ME—News bulletin and sporting results. Australian artists’ programme. DJA—A concert of light music. TPA2 —A concert relayed from Radio-Paris. 3LR—‘ Father Brown,’ 'by G. K. Chesterton, dramatised for radio presentation by Edmund Barclay. Case the first, ‘ The Hammer of God.’ 11.30: 3LR —The A.B.C. (Melbourne) Concert Orchestra, with Thea Philips (soprano), and Lionello Cecil (tenor), in a programme of love duets. 12: TPA2— News in English. DJA—News in English. SUNDAY 10.30 a.m.; HBL (also HBP, 38.47 metres) —Current news about the League of Nations. 2.15 p.m.: DJA — ‘Up and Down, the Mountains,’ an evening of folk music. 3.30,: DJA— News and economic review in Spanish. 3.45 : ‘ Greetings to Our Listeners.’ 6.5: DJA—Greman folk song. ‘ Outstanding Broadcasts of the Week.’ 5.10; ‘Musical Introduction to the Week.’ 6: DJA—News in German.’ 2ME— Programme for the first session, beginning and ending with the kookaburra call. 6.15: DJA—‘Musical Introduction to the Week ’ (continued). 6.55: DJA— ‘ Greetings to Our Listeners.’ 7: DJA—News and review of the week in English. 7:15 : Opening of the Berlin Automobile Exhibition. 8 : 3LR—Recorded music. 8.15: DJA —Folk music. 8.25: SLR—-A discussion, ‘Twenty Million People for Australia ’ (Hon. F. AV. Eggleston and Mr P. D. Phillips). 8.50: 3LR—Poetry reading. 9 : SLR—‘Gems from Oratorio.’ 9.30:, DJA— News and review of the week in German. 3LIL—An instrumental recital. 9.45: DJA—Hitler Youth programme, ‘ Yesterday Cousin Michael was There .’ musical pieces on folk songs. 10: SLR—‘Symphony Hour.’ 2ME— Programme for the second and third sessions, beginning and ending with the kookaburra call. 10.55: TPA2—Day’s programme. DJA—Gorman folk song. ‘ Outstanding Broadcasts of the Week.’ 11: 3LIL—A talk on international affairs. DJA—A concert of light music. TPA2 —A concert relayed from RadioParis. RNE—A programme in English. 11.20: SLR—A film broadcast. 12: TPA2 —News in English. DJA—News in English.,

MONDAY 7 a.m.: PCJ—An hour's special programme for listeners in Africa (music). Political talk by_ Paul de Waart. Mission news. Music. ‘ The Royal Wedding.’ ‘Journal.’ 9: RNE—A repetition of the (programme broadcast at 11 p.m. Sunday. 12: PCJ—A repetition of the programme broadcast at 7 a.m., for listeners in Central and South America. 2.15 p.m.: DJA—Orchestral concert: ‘The Last Works of Great Masters.’ 3.30: DJA—News in Spanish. 3.45; ‘ Greetings to Our Listeners.’ ‘ Highlights of the Week’s Programme.’ Programmes given for DJA will also be broadcast from 5.5 p.m. to 12.15 a.m. by DJB, DJE, and DJN, and from 2.15 to 4 p.m. by DJC, DJD, and DJN. Call Location. Metr. Kcs. Watts. SLR, Lyndhurst 31.34 9,580 1,000 DJA, Berlin ... 31.38 9,560 40,000 VK3ME, Mel- , enn bourne ... 31.55 9,510 1,500 VPD2, Suva ... 34.41 8,719 TPA2 Paris ... 19.68 15,243 12,000 HBL,’Geneva 31.27 9,595 18,000 2ME, Sydney 31.28 9,590 20,000 RNE. Moscow 25.00 • 12,000 20.000 PCJ, Eindhoven 31.28 9.590 23,000

Nearly 100 Stations. There are now 89 broadcasting stations in operation in the Commonwealth, 16 of which belong to the National Service and the balance the commercial (B class) organisations. New South Wales has the greatest share of both classes with five national and 25 commercial. The respective figures for the other States are—Victoria, 3 and 17; Queensland, 3 and 16; South Axistralia, 2 and 6; Western Australia, 1 and 5; Tasmania, 2 and 4. There are 17 stations of both classes now under construction or about to be started. Australia has one station for every 77,000 people. In the United States there is one for every 200,000 people.,