RADIO BROADCASTING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 February 1930, Page 10

RADIO BROADCASTING.

TO-NIGHT. 1 YA. Auckland:.—s p.m., children’s session; b p.m., dinner session, “Columbia” hour;; 7 p.m., news and market reports; 8 p.m.,' chimes; presentation ox 3-act play, “I’ll Leave It To You” by t-lie Dramatic 'Players, under the direction of Mr J. M. Clark; overture, Chicago Symphony 'Orchestral, “Hoses of the South”; Act 1 of “I’ll Leave It To You” ; instrumental quartet, Fionzaley Quartet, “Quartet in D Major Andante” ; Act 2 of “I’ll Leave It To You”; instrumental quartet, FJonzakey Quartet, “Quartet in _D Minor Scherzo” ; Act 3 of “I’ll Leave It To You”; waltz, Chicago Symphony Orchestra., “Wine, Women and Song”; 10 p.m.. God Save the King. 2YA Wellington.— s p.m., children’s session; G p.m., dinner session, H.M.V. hour; 7 p.m., news session, market reports* and! sports, results; 8 p.m., chimes; overture;, 2YA orohestrina., “Faust” ; soprano. Miss Monica Mailfroy, “Aria Deli Vieni Non Tardor,” from “Marriage of Figao” ; piano, Miss Hazel II ad wi eke, “Aufsdhwung” and . “Policihinelle”; baritone, -Mr Ernest Short, “Largo A 1 Factotum,” from “Barber of Seville” ; rejection, 2YA Olrcheistrina, “Lohengrin”!; elocution], Mr Albert Davey, “A Hard Case” ; violin, Efrem Zimbalist, “Zapateado” ; contralto, Mrs Agnes Lewis, “Sombre Woods”; tenor, Mr. Harry Phipps, ■ “Eily Mavouneen,” f rom “Lily of Killlarney”; selection, 2YA Orchesitrin.ai, “Katja, the Dancer”; .soprano. Miss Monica Malfroy. “Care .Solve,” from, “Atlanta” ; baritone, Mr Ernest Short, soprano, Miss Anita. Graham, “The Touch of Spring” and “Buy My Strawberries”; organ, Nicholas Robins , “My Song of the Nile”; tenor, Mr Sydney Andrews, “Sally in Our Alley”; dance music, Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra, “Fascinating Vamp” and “Umtcha TJmtcha Da Da Da”;, humorous recitation, Mr Jack Darragh, “Cohen at the Call Office”; novelty Whistling, Sybil S. Fagan, “Some Other Bird”; mezzo-contralto. Miss Kathleen Johns, “Macuslila”; dance music, Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra. “That’s You Baby” and “Honey”; bass, Mr Finlay Robb, “Beware of the Maidens” and “A Stave of Roving Tim”; male quartet, The Diplomats, “From Sunrise to Sunset”; dance music, Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra, “The One That I Love Loves Me” and “Louise.” 10.5: The following items of dance music will be played by the Bailey-Marston Orchestra until 11 p.m.: “I’m Just a Vagabond Lover,” “Shoo. Shoo Boogie Boo,” “The Desert Song,” “I’ve Seen a Smile Like Yours,” “The Toymaker’s Dream,” “Laughing Marionette,” “Breakaway,” “Jericho,” “Walking with Susie,” “Wedding of the Painted Doll,” “Mean to Me,” “Ten Little Miles from Town”; 11, God Save the King. 4YA Dunedin.—s, children’s hour, conducted by Aunt Sheila; 6, dinner session, “H.M.V.” and “Columbia” hour; 7, news session; 8, selection, Salon Orchestra, under the direction of Mr A. H. Pettitt, “Aida”; baritone, Mr Arthur Lungley, “Tally Ho”; ’cello, W. H. Squire, “Sicilienne”; recital, Miss Ngata Buswell, “Pennarby Mine”; suite, Salon Orchestra, “In a Fairy Realm”; contralto, Miss Irene Horniblow, “Pages Road Song” and “Summer Rain” ; piano, Mrs E. Drake, “Sonata op. 2, No. 2, First Movement”; Male Choir, Don Cossacks, “Serenade”; instrumental, Salon Orchestra, Intermezzo from “Cavalleria. Rusticana” and “Valse from ‘Faust’”; 9, weather j report; suite, Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, “Nell Gwymi Dances”; No. 2 “Pastoral Dance”; No. 3 “Merrymakers’ Dance”; baritone, Mr Arthur Lnnglev, Two Salt Water Bal- j lads, “Port of Many Ships” and j “Trade Winds” ; Morceau Carateris- J tique, Salon Orchestra, “Liebesfrende” and “Concert Valse”; recital, Miss Ngata Buswell, “The Victor of Marengo” and “The Culprit”; ’cello, W. H. Squire, “Slumber Song”; instrumental. The Orchestra, “Canone Amorosa” and “Faust” Bal- * let Music Nos. 3 and 4; contralto. Miss Irene Horniblow, “Stars of Earth”; Valse di Conceit, Salon Or- ; chestra. “Die Hydropaten”; 10, God ; Save the King. r

STJNDR.Y JOTTINGS

(By “TViode.”) On February 26 an innovation will be introduced through 2BL, Sydgey, in the form of “National Nights.’’ 'The Consuls of various countries will be approached to speak to listeners, first of all in their own languages, and then in English. The National Anthem of each particular country will be sung, and then a short foreword will be given introducing traditional folk-songs. The entertainments will conclude with l the I presentation of pianoforte solos composed by famous musicians of each country. The popular Sydney stations, 2FC and 2BL, are coming in much earlier these nights, and will, of course, be

heard earlier each evening as the days' grow shorter. Their dinner music sessions are always good. It will be remembered that while one of these stations is giving news items the other broadcasts music. Their oo•ordinated programmes ensure music lovers a practically continuous programme of music. There are so many fields of humour upon which to draw that it. should not be unduly hard for radio performers to select fairly fresh jokes to put on the air. That they should make a wide as well as a wise selection is the opinion of a listener who last week was reading “The National Beview” 'at the samo time as a bodv of entertainers were retailing the humorous tit-bits from this publication, seriatim. Tile listener considers it rather spoils the reading of humorous items to hear them retnil-

ed per wireless at the same time.— “Auckland Star.’.’. On an evening not long past Station 2FC, Sydney, was transmitting part of a talking picture, “The Love Parade.’’ The short-wave Station 2MEi also put it on the air at the same time. Before many minutes had elapsed a radiogram was received from Rear-Admiral Byrd in the Antarctic that he and his asso-l ciates were listening. After the “in-| terval” at the theatre the) persons present were advised from the stage that Byrd and his party were among the audience. The speaker called for cheers for the explorers, and the theatre audience also sang “For They are Jolly Rood Fellows.” All this was duly broadcast by 2ME, and picked up at Little America. Later Byrd again radioed to Sydney that the programme had been greatlv enjoyed. “The Love Parade” being thus the first talkie to be heard in the Antarctic. PROGRESS AND A PROMISE. It is high time that broadcasting in this Dominion was brought up to something of the level of advancement obtaining in Australia. The latter country has been emphatically progressive ; it lias been courageous enough to make big innovations, and, all factors considered, it has won through on them. The opportunity is waiting for New Zealand to follow

the lead in extended hours of service, in regular long-distance relays, and in many other details. That it has not yet done so cannot he laid to the blame of the Broadcasting Company. That company, in its monopoly, lias still two years to run, but has no publicly announced security of tenure thereafter. It is evident that interlinking of stations such as exists in Australia is a question absolutely dependent upon the future Government policy regarding broadcasting. In

considering this aspect, it is interesting to recall that Hon. J. B. Ronald, then Postmaster-General, last year gave an assurance to an Auckland deputation that before any further radical changes in our broadcasting system were undertaken listeners would be consulted upon Government proposals. It may safely lie presumed that this promise still holds good, though the maker of it no longer holds the portfolio which carries the .responsibility for the control of broadcasting.— “Auckland Star. ” RADIO WITHOUT SETS. Eight hundred, homes in Ramsgate receive wireless programmes daily, although they possess no sets, says, the “London Daily Telegraph.” They are subscribers to a local radio exchange, and all they have to do in order to listen-in is to press a button. A loudspeaker is the only apparatus. The programmes are picked up at the radio exchange station on a super-set, from which they are conveyed to the subscribers 'by land-line.

This is really an adaptation of the system whereby, by subscribing to a central service, people a few years'ago could listen-in by telephone to various entertainments. In Ramsgate the subscribers pay 2s 6d a week for the broadcasting service, which is available from 10.15 in the morning until midnight. Most peple consider it very cheap. Every subscriber has to take out a 10s wireless license, their having already' been legal ruling, on that point. Jfo doubt many other towns will shortly have such radio exchanges, for arrangements can he made by any enterprising company with the post office to supply the wireless service to all houses fitted with telephones. The only 7 drawback is that subscribers have to take tlie programmes selected —that is to say, they cannot time in to other stations.