ON ALL WAVELENGTHS

Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 4

ON ALL WAVELENGTHS

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION CONCERT CELEBRATED TRUMPET ARTIST fMFESSBR GALWAY AT THE ORGAN Professor Galway will broadcast ovor.4YA in an organ recital to--morrow, with another Richard ' ” Strauss tone poem and ‘ Music from the Theatre.’ Oh Monday ‘Masterpieces of Music’ and Another 8.8. C. production will be heard, while the following night a band programme and recorded' features will be the programme highlights. Grace Adams East, the talented American trumpet player, will be heard on Wednesday and Friday, while on Thursday the Philadelphia orchestra Will present a concert programme. Good Friday will bring matins and the anteoommunion service from St. Paul’s, and the usual service in the evening, while the Early Settlers’ Association will present items in celebration 1 of'the ninety-second anniversary of Otago on Saturday afternoon and evening. Details from the .programmes of the week are as follows: To-morrow. 11 a.nu: Service from Moray Place Congregational Church. 2.30 p.m.: ‘ Thus Spoke Larathustra ’ (Strauss tone poem). 6.30: Service from St. John’s Anglican Church. . , , „ , 8.15: Organ recital by Profesosr V. E. Galway. 9.25: ‘ Music from the Theatre— Lakmo.’ Monday. 10.50 a.m.; Talk to women by Margnret. / 7.40 p.m.: Talk to young farmers. 8: ‘ Masterpieces of Music.’ 9.31: ‘ Breakfast with - the Bullfinches',’ a 8.8. C. production. 10: -Dancemusic. Tuesday. ‘ 10.50 a.m.: ‘ Kathleen Chats With. Business Gils.’ 8 p.m.; Band programme. 8.26 : ‘ Eh and Zeb ’ 9.25; ‘Those We Love.’ 9.50: ‘ Singapore Spy.’ ,10.16 ;■ Music, mirth, and melody; , Wednesday. ; ■ 1 & pf Ao.so a.m.:’Talk to women by Mar'■garet. ■ i 345 p.m.: Talk by A.C.E. Hpme Science section. £ .. 7.30: ‘ Helpful Hints to 8: ‘ Ravenshoe. 1 . ■£ 8.15: ‘ The.; Fourth Form/ at St. ••Percy’s.’. , ■'i ■’ ,*■■ s, \ .8.27; ‘Westward Ho!’ 8.40; Grace's: Adams-East, American trumpet virtuoso. 9.25: ‘Thrills!’ 9.38: ‘ Khyber and Beyond.’ 10: Modern dance music.

Thursday. 10.50 a.m.: ‘Still Outside the Pale: Women at Cambridge.’ 7.30 p.m.: Gardening talk. .8: Concert by Philadelphia Orches--10: Music, mirth, and melody.

Friday. 10.50 a.m.: Talk to women by Margaret. 11: Matins and Ante-Commumon, from St. Paul’s Cathedral. 7.30 p.m.: Good Friday service. 8.30: Concert programme, featuring Grace Adams East (trumpet). 9.30: Readings by Professor T. D. Adams.

Saturday. 10.50 a.m.: ‘ Music and Flowers— Flowers and Fashions,’ by American Peggy Hoyt. 2.30 p.m.: Early Settlers’ Association celebrates ninety-second Otago anniversary. _ 8: Early Settlers’ Association concert. 9.25: Old-time dance programme. RADIO LOG BOOK fMPAGANDA Early-morning broadcasts in German, Czech, Italian, and Polish have been added to the 8.8.C.’s schedule of foreign language transmissions. Given daily, the broadcasts consist of news bulletins and announcements in all four tongues, talks in German, and a musical programme presented in Polish, for which, however, a talk in Italian iflay occasionally be substituted. News in English is transmitted as before. In 15 languages and for 24 hours each day a news service and a statement of the British point of view are going out from England to every corner of the earth. The dictators may now bo wishing they had not started a propaganda war. KECESSARY When war was declared in England the censors ordered that only one programme should be broadcast from the 8.8. C. stations throughout . Britain. The objects were to simplify censorship and to make it easier to control the “ news.” Coincident with this came a falling off in volume, the power of th,e station being cut down so that they would not provide directing “ beams ” for enemy aircraft. The one programme has 'been typically 8.8. C., dreadfully heavy, and the result has been, that very many listeners are tuning in foreign stations, and incidentally hearthe enemy propaganda and news. There has risen a demand that alternative programmes should be reverted to. one at least of a lighter type. The 8.8. C. is willing, but Government consent is required before it can act.

NEWS and COMMENTS I

By “ HENRY ” . '

NETWORK TELEVISION SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED CLEARLY RECEIVED 142 MILES AWAY NEW YORK TO RELAY STATION Network television, the dream of scientists for years, was demonstrated successfully to Federal Communications Commission members in Schnectady in February by Gene’ral Electric Engineers. The first demonstration of its kind in history, in which a programme transmitted from New York was clearly received in Schnectady homes, 142 air line miles away, was made possible by the use of the new relay station working in conjunction with its main transmitter on top of the Helderberg Mountains.

Although telecast programmes had been received at the Helderberg relay station before in tests it was the first time that such programmes were rebroadcast for the entertainment of persons in the area served by the local station. Both image and voice were considered excellent by members of the commission, equally as good as programmes originating in the Schenectady studio, thus proving to the commission that network television is possible. So far as known, this was the first time a television programme has actually been rebroidcast over any such distance and from a point more than a mile below the line of sight. By the use of the new relaying equipment, located 1.2 miles from the mam transmitter on the Helderberg Mountains, 12 miles from Schenectady, television broadcasts from New York City will become available to the capital district residents within the range of tho

company’s station, W2XB. The programmes transmitted from New York City are received at the relay station on the 44-50 megacycle band my means of a rhombic antenna that resembles two diamonds placed end, to end and supported by four 128-foot towers. The programmes then pass through an amplifier, a part of the antenna structure, that increases the signal strength about 20 times before entering a wire line leading to the relay receiving station located beneath the antenna. Hero the radio signals from New York are changed to sound and picture signals.

By means of a low-power 10-watt transmitter the picture part of the programmes is then relayed on a carrier wave of 156-162 megacycles from a small transmitting antenna to the main Helderberg station. This transmitter is similar to the diamond-shaped one used to pick up the programmes from New York, but is only 10ft across, as compared with the 400 ft of the receiving antenna. At the main transmitter a dipole antenna picks up the picture part of the relayed programme and feeds it to tho transmitter, where tho frequency is converted to the 66-72 megacycle level and amplified to 10 kilowatts. The sound part of the_ programme is relayed from the receiving station to tho main transmitter by wire lino. There it modulates a standard 10-kih)-watt ultra-high-frequency transmitter, and the programmes are then. broadcast . from two antennas above the transmitter to listeners in the capital district.

The relay station is located 129 air line miles from New York City and stands 1,700 ft above sea level, with the rhombic antenna 128 ft above. The main transmitter is at an altitude of 1,520 ft, with 60ft antennas above. General Electric’s television transmitter has been operating experimentally with programmes every Monday night for some time. Now with tho relay station in operation, permitting N.B.C. programmes to be added to the local station’s programmes, it is expected the now station soon will be officially opened. However, no definite date has been set.

SUNDAY'S PROGRAMMES During the war all main stations will remain on the air until midnight, normal programmes ceasing to-day about 10 p.m. Daventry news will be broadcast at 6,7, and 9 a.m. and at 12.30, 4, 6.15, 9. and 11.30 p.m.

4YA (790 kc), Dunedin. 6 a.m.: Recordings. 10: Weather report for aviators. Recordings. 11: Service from Moray Place Congregational Church; preacher. Rev. John H. Harris; organist, Mrs H. O. Campbell. 12.30: News. 1: Weather report for aviators. Recordings. 2.30: ‘ Thus Spake Zarathustra,’ a tone poem by Richard Strauss, played by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 3.5 : Recordings. 5.30: Big Brother Bill's song service. 6.30- Anglican service, relayed) from St. John’s Anglican Church. 7.45: Recordings. 8.15: An organ recital by Professor V. E. Galway, Mus.D., Dunedin city organist, relayed from Town Hall. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: ‘ Music from _ the Theatre: Lakrae,’ Delibes’s exotic Eastern opera. To-morrow.; —6 a.m.: Recordings. 10: Weather report for aviators. Recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.60: Talk to women by Margaret. 11: Recordings. 12 : music. 1: Weather report for aviathrs- Weather forecast. 2: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music.

4YO (1.140 kc), Dunedin. 6 p.m.; Recordings. 8.30; ‘Wandering with the West Wind.’ 9: Epilogue. 10: Close down.

4YZ (680 kc), Invercargill. 11: Sunday morning programme. 12.30-1: Daventry news. 2: The Regent Concert Orchestra, with vocal in-

terludes. 2.30: St. Patrick’s Day. 3: ‘ The Flute of Sans Souci ’ (Paul Graenar), played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 3.16: Famous artists; Herbert Janssen. 3.30-4: Medley time. 6.30: Relay of evening service from St.. Paul’s Presbyterian Church preacher, Rev. C. J. Tocker. 7.45; Gleanings from far and wide. 8.15: ‘ Night Nurse-,’ 8.28: Concert by Ignaz Freidmann (piano), Russian Cathedral choir, Yehudi Menuhin (violin). 9: Daventry news. 9.30: ‘Oliver Twist.’ 9.45: Slumber session. 10: Close down.

3YA (720 kc), Christchurch. 6 a.m.; Recordings. 11; Baptist service from Oxford Terrace Church; preacher. Rev. L. J. Boulton-Smith. 12.15: Recordings. 5.30: Children’s service. 7: Methodist service from Durham Street Church; preacher, Rev. Raymond Dudley, ’M.A., F.R.E.s! 7.30: Stainer’s ‘ Crucifixion,’ rendered by the choir of the Durham Street Methodist Church. 8.35; Recordings. 8.40: National Symphony Orchestra. 8.50: Danny Malone (tenor). 9.20: Weather report and station notices'. 9.25: ‘ Rose Without a Thorn,’ an historical drama by Clifford Bax, adapted and _ produced by the National If roadcasting Service.

2YA (570 kc), Wellington. 6 a.m.: Recordings. 10: Weather report for aviators. 10.45: Special Salvation Army Congress service (relayed from the Citadel, Vivian street). Preacher, Lieutenant - commissioner Evan Smith. 3:' ‘Leaders of the Churches in Early New Zealand, Archbishop Redwood.’ by T. P. Cleary. 3.15: ‘ An Irish Troubadour of Society,’ the story and songs of Thomas Moore. 3.45: Recordings. 5.30: Children’s song service. 7: Brethren Church service, relayed from Tory street. 8.15 V approx.): Recordings. 8.30: A recital by Grace Adams East (American trumpet virtuoso). 8.42: Oscar Natzkc, the great Covent Garden basso, accompanied by the 2YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Anderson Tyrer. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: Music from the theatre, ‘The Magic Flute,’ by Mozart (Part 2).

IYA (650 kc), Auckland. 6 a.m.: Recordings. 11: Anglican service, relayed i'rom St. Mark’s Church. Preacher, Canon Percy Houghton. 12.15 p.m.: Selected recordings. 3.18: Song cycle, ‘ In -a Persian Garden’ (Liza Lehmann). 4.20: Recordings. 5.30: Children’s song service. 7: Roman Catholic service, relayed from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Preacher, Rev. Dr Buxton. 8.30: Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, 8.46: Raymond Newell and chorus. 8.52: Black Dyke Mills Band. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: Band of H.M. Welsh Guards, Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. 9.36: Charles Kullman (tenor). 9.42: Jack Mackintosh (eornetist). 9.48: Australian Commonwealth Band. 9.54: Band of H.M. Welsh Guards. SHORT WAVE STATIONS Empire Station (19.82 m, 25.5 m, 31.5|m), Daventry. 5.57 p.m. 6; To be announced. 6.15: Full news bulletin. 6.45: To be announced. 8: News summary. 8.15: To be announced. 8.45: Religious service. 9: Full news bulletin. 9.30: To be 'announced.' 1Q.15: Close down. VLR (25.25 m), Melbourne. 8.45 a.m.: News and recorded music. 11.15: Sporting session. 11.30: ‘ln Quires and places Where They Sing.’ 12: Light ensemble. 12,15 : ‘ Current Books Worth Reading.’ 12.30: New releases. 1: Divine service. 2.15: Musical interlude. 2.55: News. _3: Music. 3.30: Close down. 5: Classical compositions. 5.45: An armchair chat. 6: Light ensemble. 6.15; News. 6.30: Brass band. 7: Australian artists.

VLR (31.32 m), Melbourne. 7.30; Children’s play. 8: ‘‘Adventure Hour.’ 9: News. 9.30: ‘Ballads That Have Lived.’ 10: Play. 11; The Austral Trio. 11.30: News. 11.45: ‘ In the Public Eye.’ Midnight: Choral praise. 0.30: Department of Information service. 1: Close down.

2R03 (31.15 m), 2R06 (19.16 m), Rome. 6: Musical programme. 6.35: News summary in English. 6.50: Musical programme. 7; News summary in Italian. 7.15: Close down.

News in English. News in English from foreign short wave stations can be heard as under. (These hours are the same each day, and this list should be kept as reference for week-day use.) 6.15 a.m.: Rome, 31.13 m, 25.4 m. 19.61 m, 7: Berlin, 49.83 m, 31.01 m, 25.49 m, 19.68 m, Paris, 41.2 m, 25.24 m, 19.68 m. 9.15: Berlin, 49.93 m, 30.01 m, 25.49 m. 19.86 m. 11.15: Rome, 31.02 m. Noon: Moscow, 25m, 19.76 m. 1 p.m.: Paris, 25.6 m, 25.24 m. 1.15: Berlin, 25.29 m, 25.42 m, 19.74 m,, 3: New York, 16.88 m. Pittsburgh, 25.27 m. Schenectady, 31.41 m. 3.15: Paris, 25.6 m, 25.42 m. 3.30: Berlin, 25.42 m, 19.74 m. 5.30: Tokio, 20.5 m. 6: New York, 30.02 m. Pittsburgh, 48.86 m. 7: Berlin, 31.46 m, 19.63 m, 16.89 mi 8: Moscow, 19.76 m. 8.15: Paris, 25.24 m. 9.30: Rome, 16.83 m. 11: Rome, 25.4 m, 16.83 m. Paris, 19.68 m, 16.8 m. Midnight; Berlin, 21.38 m, 19.63 m, 16.81 m. ) MONDAY V VLR3 (25.5 m), Melbourne. 8.30 a.m.: Weather and news. 9.15: * Alarm Clock Hour.’ 10: ‘ Morning Melodies.’ 11.30: Morning story. 12: Daily devotional service. 12.15: Close down. 2: Broadcast to schools. 2.20: Stock Exchange report, etc. -2.40: ‘ At Home and Abroad,’ “ The Watchman.” 2.55: News. 3.35: Musical programme and descriptions of the Ascot races (news at 6.15), 7.15: Close down. EMPIRE WELL REPRESENTED ARTISTS IN 8.8. G. VARIETY TEAM The dominions and colonies are well represented in the repertory company of artists which was formed by the 8.8.G.’s variety department at the outthe war, and is now stationed at Bristol. From Australia came Dick Bentley, a Melbourne artist who has been heard in many of the programmes in the overseas transmissions. He has appeared in the 8.8. C. Variety Orchestra’s ‘ Intermission ’ programmes, in musical-comedy productions, in features such as ‘ Songs from the Shows ’ and ‘ Lucky Dip,’ and has also been responsible for a number of gramophone presentations. From 1933 to 1937, Bentley broadcast regularly—often as many as four or five times a week—in the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s programmes from Sydney. He went to England in May, 1938, and, apart from his broadcasting work, has appeared there in cabaret and revue. Bentley’s partner in many broadcasts is George Moon, who also knows Australia well; four years ago ho worked for the A.B.C. in Melbourne and Sydney. Recitals at the piano of his own compositions were among his many broadcasts.

Sidney Burchall—“ The Ballad Monger J’ —spent seven years in Australia with the J. C. Williamson company. Before going to England five years ago he broadcast for 16 weeks with the A.B.C. He was also a frequent performer in New Zealand programmes. Oversea listeners have heard him in song recitals and many lightentertainment shows, ‘ Sing-Song,’ ‘ Music Hall,’ and ‘ Songs from the Shows ’ among them. Work in Australia and New Zealand is among the experiences of another versatile member of the variety team, Gwen Lewis. She toured there in vaudeville and revue, and has also played a six-month season in South Africa.

Two members of the close-harmony trio, the Cavendish Three, are Empire born. They are Kay Cavendish, who was born in Hongkong and lived there there for three years before going to England, and Patricia Rignold (sister of Hugo ißignold, the violinist), who was .born in Winnipeg, and left there only two or three years ago. The Cavendish Three—Dorothy Carloss is the trio’s other member—are frequent broadcasters; among the regular productions in which they are heard is ‘ It’s That Man Again.’

In reply to complaints regarding the small number of Australian musical compositions that were recorded in Australia last year, the principal gramophone company replies that the question is purely one of economics. Many Australian recordings had resulted in loss, and it was just a question of supply and demand.