RADIO PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 197, 19 July 1935, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Radio programmes for to-night arc as follow: — IYA AUCKLAND (461.3 metres; 650 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Orchestra, “Slav.” 8.18: Paul Vinogradoff (pianist) and the Bohomian Orchestra, present “Concerto in A Minor.” 10.0: Music, mirth, and melody. 11.0: Close. IYX AUCKLAND (34’J.7 metres, 880 kilocycles).—s.o: Selected musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After dinner programme. 10.0: Close. 2YA WELLINGTON (526.0 metres; 570 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Records. 8.40: Talk, Captain \V. J. Melville, ((Aerial Espionage.” 9.0: Weather report. 9.5: Band, “Australia Forever,” “Slidin’ Thro’ The Rye,” “Entente Cordiale.” 9.17: “The Kingsmen.” 9.32: Band, “Hail Storm,” “Tit Larks,” “On With the Motley,” “The Switchback.” 9.44: “Eb and Zeb,” the country storekeepers in a further humorous episode. 9.54: Band, “Coriolanus,” “Invercargill,” “Dunedin.” 10.6: Dance programme. 11.6: Close.

2YC WELLINGTON (356.9 metres; 840 kilocycles).—s.o: Light music. 6.0: Close. 7.0: After dinner music. 8.0: “Life In London.” 9.0: Sonata Hour. 10.0: Close. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (416.4 metres; 720 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s sossion. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Records, Gladys Vincont (violin), and Rev. L. A. North (baritone). 9.0: Woather forecast. 9.5: Orchestra, “Chal Romano.” 9.14: Gladys Moncrieff in selections. 9.29: Orchestra, “Thoughts.” 9.33: Records. 9.39: Orchestra, “I Pitch My Lonely Caravan,” “Bird Songs at Eventide,” “I Hoar You Singing.” 9.46: Record. 9.52: Orchestra. “Mecca,” “In a Bird Store.” 10.0: Music, mirth, and melody. 11.0: Close. 3YL CHRISTCHURCH (250 metres. 1200 kilocycles).—s.o: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After dinner music. 8.0: Alternative concert programme. 10.0: Close down. 4YA DUNEDIN (379.5 metres; 790 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Chimes. Quintet, “Canadian Capers,” “Dance of the Honey Bees.” 8.10: “Tho Kingsmen.” 8.25: Quintet, “Pretty as Pink.” “Repasz Band.” 8.32: Record. 8.40: Talk, Prefcssor S. I*'. Hunter, “Tho Story of Babylon the Great—Her Glory and Her Tragedy.” 9.0: Weather report. 9.5: Trio in B Fiat. 9.25: Mr Walter Kingsley, “The Mill Wheel,” “In Questa Tombu,” “The Erl King.” 9.28: Dusolina Giamnni (soprano), “Devotion,” “All Souls’ Day.” 9.44: Miss Adelc Bucklin (violin) and Mr Fred Page (piano), Sonata No. 2. 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close.

4Y’O DUNEDIN (263 metres; 1400 kilocycles).—s.o: Light musical session. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After dinner music 8.0: Alternative concert programme. 10.0: Close down. 2ZF PALMERSTON NORTH (312.3 metres, 900 kilocycles). —7.0 to 9.30: Concert programme. “ 2FC SYDNEY (451 metres; 665 kilocycles).—B.o: “Trent’s Last Case,” play in five acts. 9.20: The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Band, Assisted by Sydney do Vries, baritone; comedy interlude bv “Emma and ’Erbert.” 10.40: Dance music. 11.30: Close.

2BL SYDNEY (351 metres: 855 kilocycles).—B.o: The National Military Band, in association with A.B.C. (Sydney) V ireless Chorus. 9.0: Mildred Hill, pianist, and Nora Williamson, violinist. 9.40: Records. 10.0: Close. 3LO MELBOURNE (375 metres. 800 kilocycles).—B.o: National programme, see 2FC. 10.40: Dance music. 11.30: Close. 3AR MELBOURNE (492 metres, 610 kilocycles).—B.o: Chamber music. 9.25: Interlude. 9.30: “Devonshire Cream and Cider,” a bird’s eye view of Devonshire in song and story. 10.30: Close. EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATION. TRANSMISSION I. 4.30 to 6.30: GSB (31.55 m) and GSD (25.53 m). 4.30 a.m.: Big Ben; chamber music. 5.0: Talk, “Jungle to Jutland” Major Claude Wallace. 5.15: Yera Pearce (Australian musical comedy star). 5.30: Ida Santarelli and her Ladies of Spain. 6.15: News. 6.35: Close. Note.—New Zealand mean time is one and a half hours ahead of Eastern Australian time and 112 ‘ hours ahead of Greenwich mean time. BITS ABOUT BROADCASTS. AROUND THE STATIONS.

(By “Microphone.”) Following the excellent example set in the cricket broadcasts, 2FC Sydney radiated a “stroke tor stroke” description of the final games at the Wimbledon tennis championships. Mr Charles Moses, the sports announcer, who was so prominent in the cricket broadcasts, carried out the scheme with a supplemented cable service. Although there is 110 word to hand, it would not be surprising if at Hie week-end 2FG carried out a similar broadcast in connection with the Davis Cup finals. , Official advice from the Australian Broadcasting Commission gives the hours of transmission of the A class National stations. As these are not on the air continuously, the following information, with New Zealand standard time quoted, may be of interest :

From 4QG, 4RK (Rockhampton relay), SCL, SCK (Crystalbrook relay), 6WF, and 7ZL, Mondays to Fridays, 8.30 to 10.30; noon to 3.30; 4.30 to 6; 7 to 1 a.m. Saturdays, 8.30 a.m. to 10 a.m.; 1.30 to 1 a.m. Sundays, noon to 3.30 p.m.; 4.30 to 6.30; 7.15 to midnight. From 2FO and 3LO, Mondays to Fridays, 8.30 to 9.30; 11 to 1 p.m.; 1.30't0 3.30; 4.30 to 5.45; 7 to 1 a.m. Saturdays, 8.30 to 9.30; 11 to 1 p.m.; 1.30 to 6.30; 7 to 1 a.m. Sundays, I. to 4.30; 6 to 11.30. From 2BL and 3AR, Mondays to Fridays, 8.30 to 11 a.m.; 1 p.m. to 6; 7.30 to midnight. Saturdays, 8.30 to 11; 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.; 7.30 to 1.30 a.m., Sundays, 1.25 to 4.30; 6 to 11. Tlie week-end broadcasts from the Empire station were again a big success, demonstrating that such reception is becoming less a fluke than a definite service. The American stations still remain rather obscure, with the Atlantic coasters more prominent than those on the Pacific Coast. Only two Californian broadcasters were heard on Monday evening, though what appeared to be WLW Cincinnati was at good volume. Many countries of Europe transmit programmes in languages, other than their own. For example, Italian stations use Arabian, Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian, and Rumanian; and Russia, according to the radio authorities of the U.S.S.R., last year used no less than sixty-two different languages. English transmissions from many- of the Continental short wave stations are common. Some of these broadcasts may be given in the desire to assist other countries which are not well supplied with local programmes, but many of them have no other purpose than the dissemination of propaganda in favour of the country of origin. Sometimes it is skilfully concealed, but often there is no attempt to disguise the purpose. There are, however, occasions when these considerations are absent. For example, for the King’s Jubilee broadcasts, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, and Poland sent their own commentators to London, special circuits being arranged by tho 8.8. C. to enable them to describe the proceedings direct to their local listeners. Besides the British Dominions and the United States, these broadcasts were also relayed by the Argentine, Brnzil, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Finland, Holland Hungary, Portugal, Rumania, Sweden, and Switzerland. Twenty-one stations in the United States have been called upon by the Federal Communications Commission

“to prove that their continued operaation wilL be in the public interest.” This action lias been taken because the stations transmitted programmes connected with a certain preparation for reducing weight. The stations will be heard on October 3, and in the meantime have only temporary licenses. The. controlling commission in that country has no power to censor programmes, but it can act when the public interest is affected. The action is apparently part of a campaign towards the more stringent regulation of programmes. Although in recent months there have been complaints as to the nature of the offerings of some stations, offenders against good taste are comparatively rare, the weight of public opinion preventing any but infrequent infringements. Arrangements have been concluded between the 8.8. C. and the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, for monthly broadcasts in the Empire transmissions of services froni the Cathedral. These services, which will be specially arranged for the benefit of listeners to the Empire transmissions, will lie held on the second Sunday of each month. The total number of wireless licenses in force in Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the end of March, 1935, was 7,011,G16, as compared with 6,259,653 in March, 1934. This shows a net increase of 751,963 during the year.

A message of greeting to the British Grahamland Expedition under the leadership of Mr John Rymill was recently broadcast in the news from the Empire Station of the 8.8. C. at Daventry. The expedition had previously reported that reception of the Empire station in the Antarctic regions was excellent. As the members of the expedition are not expected to return to civilisation or receive any mail until the spring of 1937, the programmes and news bulletins broadcast from the Empire station are very much appreciated. A message of reply from Mr John Rymill addressed to the 8.8. C. was transmitted by the expedition to the station situated at the Falkland Islands,, and relayed direct to London.

A survey made by the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce based on “the best references available” gives the number of receiving sets in use in the world as 53,582,474. These are supplied with programmes from 58 long, 1537 medium, and 136 short-wave broadcasting stations. Statistics from 131 countries have been combined to produce this total which sets forth the position about the end of last year. North America with over 26 million sets in use, and Europe with about 22 million receivers, are easily at the head of the list of continents, 't he United States, with 25.551,569 receivers and 631 broaducasting stations, is the most plentifully supplied individual country, while Abyssinia, with five sets and no stations, is at the bottom of the list. Only 45 countries of the list, which includes many small islands and dependencies, are not provided with transmitters of some kind. Each of the 56 lifeboats which the new French trans-Atlantic liner Normandie carries is equipped with its own transmitting and receiving apparatus. An announcement was recently made that Paris would in August be receiving from the Eiffel Tower television transmissions, which would be “better and more up-to-date than anything in Great Britain and in Germany.” The transmission will use 240-lino scanning. In the meantime, a less detailed service will be provided on 175 metres.