RADIO PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Radio programmes for to-night are as follow : IYA AUCKLAND (366 metres, 820 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Selected recordings. 8.30: Minstrol Show. Interlocutor, Allan -McSkimming. Corner men : Alan McElwain, Bert Watson, Elton Black, Lou Bickerton. 9.0: Weather forecast and notices. 9.2: Continuation of Minstrel Show. 9.30 —11.0: Dance musio. 2YA WELLINGTON (416.7 metrea, 720 kilocycles).—s.o : Children’s session. 6.0 : Dinnor music. 8.0: Recorded programme. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (306 metros, 980 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Light classical programme. 10.0: Dance music. 4YA DUNEDIN (463 metres, 650 kilocycles). —5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Programme featuring representative types of music by Dunedin Glee Singer's. 9.2: Reserved. 2ZF PALMERSTON NORTH (285 metres, 1050 kilocycles).—6.ls: Children’s session. 7.0: Early musical session. 8.0: Rolay of 2YA. 2FCS SYDNEY (451 metres, 665 kilocycles).—B.o: National programme. (Transmission from 3LO). Orchestral concert. A.B.C. (Melbourne) Symphony Orchostra. 10.30: Dance musio. 11.30: Close. 2BL SYDNEY (351 metres, 855 kilocycles).—B.o: Repeat of tho A.B.C. Revue, Jingle Jangle (A Humphrey Bishop production). 9.0: A.B.C. Concort Orchestra--9.8 : Roger Jones and Hilda Graco, vocal duets. 9.16: Antonio’s Dilemmas. 9.26: Orchestra. 9.34: Roger Jones and Hilda Graco, vocal duets. 9.43: Charlos and Leslie broadcast a few laughs. 9.53: Orchestra. 10.5: Varied moments musical. 10.30: Closo. 3LO MELBOURNE (375 metres, 800 kilocycles).—B.o : Orchestral Concert by A.B.C. (Melbourne) Symphony Orchestra. 9.20: Popular orchestral masterpieces. 10.30 : Danco music. 11.30 : Close. 3AR MELBOURNE (492 metres, 610 kilocycles).—B.o: Talos of Terror, Tactfully retold, “The Centenary of Eugene Aram,” J. P. Quaino. 8.20: From Anzac House, speeches by His Excellency the GovernorGeneral at the annual smoke night of tho Limbless Soldiers’ Association. 8.30: Dance programme. 10.30: Close. 4QG BRISBANE (395 metres, 760 kilocycles). —8.0: Symphony Orchestral Concert by tho Queensland State and Municipal Orchestra. 10.30: Dance music. 11.0: Close.

Note.—Now Zealand summer time is two hours ahead of eastern Australian time.

“BITS ABOUT BROADCASTS.” (By “Microphone.”) The usual inconsistency of conditions during tho summer months prevails in the city. On one evening recently the Americans were heard with a great _ deal of punch, but they could not bo picked up the following night. Early evening reception of the Dominion stations, before tho static storms commence, has been generally satisfactory. After an absence of a fortnight Mr Clive Drummond is back again at 2YA’s microphone with tho freshness that characterises his announcements. Advance programmes which have arrived indicate that from tho Commonwealth there will be no dearth of entertainment on Christmas Eve. . Tho majority of the stations will remain on tho air until midnight (local time). Don Bradman is quite at homo before the microphone and each of the Test matches in Australia will be described by him through 2UE and 2IID. There are to be inter-Stato relays. Ernest McKinley, the celebrated New Zealand tenor, is scheduled to appear from the YA stations in January. Hfc will be at each station only onco and broadcasts from 2YA on January 22.

Wilmer Allison, the American tennis champion, is a keen amateur transmitter and operates under the call WSVV when he is home at Maine. He uses a power of 300 watts. When abroad on his tour ho regularly hears his brother-in-law on the short waves. The prolonged absence of PCJ Holland, which used to transmit regularly on 31.3 metres, is causing disappointment to many short-wave listener's. Over 20 languages havo been spoken into its microphone since it opened as PCJJ in March, 1927. The announcers spoke five languages and the station was what GSD is hoped to be as a world broadcaster. 8 Whether or not tho depression, tho summer conditions or the already crowded ether is the cause, there has been an absence of new stations on tho air in the Dominion and Australia recently. For a time there was a steady stream of new call signs on the air. The British Broadcasting Corporation, London, has just appointed a roving announcer (Mr Vernon Bartlett), who is travelling over Europe and broadcast’ from a different city each week his impressions and observations as a candid Englishman, and Occasionally introducing a notability. ‘The advantages of this kind of direct contact in widening the horizon of tho intelligent listening public oannot bo over-estmated. It is a noteworthy step towards realising the 8.8.C.’s stated ideal,' ‘Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation,’,” comments an Australian contemporary. “REMEMBER THIS RADIATION.” Remember that, if you decrease tho strength of your reception to lessen the effect of static, signals will also weaken to a corresponding degree. Many “weak” transmissions are thus explained.