RADIO PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Radio programmes for to-night, arc as follow :

IYA AUCKLAND (416.3 metres; 650 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s ; session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Chamber music. 10.0; Music, mirth, and melodv. 11.0: Close. IYX AUCKLAND (340.7 metres; 880 kilocycles).—s.o: Selected musical programme. 6.0: Closo down. 7.0: After dinner programme. 10.0: Closo. 2YA WELLINGTON (526.0 metres; 570 kilocycles).-—5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Orchestra, “Caliph of Bagdad.” 8.7: Harold Williams, baritone, “Four Indian Lovo Lyrics.” 8.19: Orchestra, “A Dream of Egypt” Song Cycle. 8.34: Bessie Jones, soprano, “Beloved, in Your Absence.” 8.37: Orchestra, “L-c Pcre La Victoire.” 8.40: Talk, Professor F. L. W. Wood, “World Affairs.” 9.0: Weather. 9.5: Victor S. Lloyd and Company present “Trent’s Last Case,” a radio play in 5 acts. 10.15: Dance music. 11.15: Close. 2YC WELLINGTON (356.9 metres; 840 kilocycles).—s.o: Light music. 6.0: Close. 7.0: After dinner music. 8.0: Classical programme. 8.40: Symphonic programme. 10.0: Close.

3YA CHRISTCHURCH (416.4 metres; 720 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Orchestra, “Marche Turke,” “Ciirnival.” 8.16: Records. 8.40: Madame Annette . Chapman (mezzosoprano), “From the Depth of My Sorrow,” “The Trout.” 8.52: Orchestra, March, “Slav.” 9.0: Weather. 9.5: Reserved. 9.20: Orchestra, “Falstaff,” “Op. 68.” 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close.

3YL CHRISTCHURCH (250 metres; 1200 kilocycles).—s.o: Ligh.t musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After dinner music. 8.0: Alternative concert programme. 10.0: Close. _4YA DUNEDIN (379.5 metres; 790 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: “The Kingsmen,” radio’s royal quartet. 8.17: Mr Gu Dech, eminent English pianist.. Tho Junior Apprentice; Printer’s Devil; Tho Milkman. 8.25: _“Son-in-Law Brand,” a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and hie employer. 8.40: Talk by Mr John Ash, “Lest Causes: Kosciusco and tho Polish Patriots.” 9.0: Weather. 9.5: “The King’s Tryall,” a dramatic presentation of the trial of King Charles I, of England. 10.35: Dance music. 11.30: Close. 4YO 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. 2ZF PALMERSTON NORTH (312.3 metres; 960 kilocycles).—6.3o: Children’s session. 7.30: Early musical session. 8.0: Relay cf 2YA. 3LO MELBOURNE (390 metres; 770 kilocycles).—B.o: National programme from Sydney.—Percy Grainger, pianist-composer, in association with The A.B.C. (Sydney) Concert Orchestra. 9.0: Norman Ellison will speak on—“ Harold Catty.” 9.15: “The Apache,” an operetta in throe acts. 10.40: Dance music. 11.30: Close.3AR MELBOURNE (476 metres; 630 kilocycles).—B.o: From Albert Hall, Moonec Ponds, Community singing, conducted by Thomas Stuckey. 8.30: Jack arid Sylvia Kellaway, entertainers. 8.45: Community sing. 9.15: “Songs and Their Singing,” discussed and illustrated byHarold Browning. 9.30: Violin recital by Leopold Prctnyslav, with Ernest Empson, piano. 10.30: Close

EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATION. ' TRANSMISSION I. 6.15 to 8.15: GSB J31.55m) and GSU

(25.53 m) 6.15 a.m.: Big Ben:. “Remote Corners. No 5: Australia to Tierra del Fucgo,” a talk by Jean Hamilton. 6.30: John Collinson (Australian tenor), Jessie King (Australian contralto), ahd Jeannette Caille (Canadian pianistc). 7.15: 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra. 8.0: News. 8.15: Close. Note.—New Zealand mean time is one and a half hours ahead of Eastern Australian time and hours ahead of Greenwich mean time. BITS ABOUT BROADCASTS. SUMMER TIME CHANGE. (By “Microphone.’’) As from early on Sunday morning next the period of summer time will Conte into operation, when the clocks will be advanced bv half an hour. This time of the year is usually regarded as the end of the season for long-dis-tance listening, the extra period of daylight making an increasing difference in the diminution of the signal strength of overseas stations. As a result of the advance New Zealand time will be two hours ahead of Eastern Australia (Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria), 2i hours in advance of South Australia, and four ahead of Western Australia. We will be three hours in advance of Japan, 17 ahead of Eastern Standard American, 19 ahead of Central, 20 ahead of Mountain, and 21 ahead of Pacific Standard, while we will he exactly 12 hours in advance of Greenwich"(as used on the Empire transmitter).

With the change-over, the benefit of the increased power of the Dominion and Australian stations will ho more evident, especially in the late afternoons and early evenings. Incidentally, it lias been announced that the metropolitan transmitters of the latter system are to be remodelled and have their power increased, probably to 7000 watts. These are the original stations of the national system—that at 2BL is the same plant that was operated by Broadcasters, Ltd., when 2FC was conducted by tiro Farmers’ Coy. (whence the call letters were allocated), and in the intervening period the system hrs grown to 20 transmitters. An authoritative source in Sydney states that it is not yet possible tt> «ay when the changes will he made or how they will be effected. In fact, there is a suspicion that the details of the scheme have not yet been worked out, and that Parliamentary approval has yet to be obtained. , Apparently when the new scheme is in operation both 2FC and 2BL will transmit from the same point outside the city with a power which will bo probably double their present output, which will make them comparable to the stations at Corowa and Crystal Brook, and in the north of Tasmania. The scheme of grouping the two transmitters at one point is one which might well have been employed before, not only with the National transmitters, but with all the commercial transmitters of each city. The advantage of such an arrangement would be that all stations within the service areas would he of approximate equal relative strength at any point, and, therefore, many of the interference troubles that have been experienced would have been avoided.

While increase of power is desirable, the experiences of the recent wavelength change, and its crop of complaints of interference between 7NT and 2BL, 3AR and SCIC, 3TR, and 2NC, and so on, indicate that further complications may be introduced. Much has been said lately on this point, and the Federal Post Office has been blamed for making unsuitable arrangements; but, while the position may seem complicated in some respects, the difficulties, if any. are duo largely to the normal growth of the broadcasting system. Thev are infinitesimal compared to the problems in the United States, where between six and seven hundred stations of various powers are packed within the same band' of frequencies; and in Europe, where stations varying in power from 1 to 120 kilowatts are crowded still more closely into the same range. In a few words, in any system where all the available channels are to be used, receivers must be designed to suit the conditions. If all interference is to be avoided with what are often unsuitable types of receivers, the only solution is to reduce the number or power of transmitters, and this is an unlikely possibility. While American stations are declining in signal strength, early morning listeners will be able for another six weeks to hear tlic European stations reasonably well. It is stated that the German transmitters are at excellent strength at the present time.

THROUGH THE MICROPHONE. * We in the Dominion nave little scope - ' for networks on any large scale, the early morning link-up with Auckland ;; for the All Black reports being comparatively' small. However, in Austra- ■ lia increasingly long distances are being covered, and when an address was delivered relative to the wave-length ■ changes 66 National and commercial stations were linked up, the circuit length of the telephone lilies constituting a record of 13,000 miles—the disstance from New Zealand to Britain. The 8.8. C. reports that a new wireless exchange was recently opened at Accra, on the Gold Coast of Africa. 'l’hc present' programme is for recep- | tion between 10 a.m. and 1 p.in., of ; news and orchestral music from London, and in the evening from 7 till 10 or 11 o’clock. A local studio will provide alternative items with the London rebroadcasts. A' children’s halfhour will be broadcast once or twice , a week. ! The voice of Mr W. M. Sltewen. the senior Empire announcer of the 8.8. C., is undoubtedly one of the best known in the British Empire. Since the inception of the Empire service in 1932 he and his follow announcers have been the recipients of many letters of appreciation from Empire listeners—to say nothing of socks and ties, cigars, coffee, and picture postcards. Hr Sliewen was horn in India and educated at Cheltenham and Sandhurst. He was in the Regular Army before the War. In the early days of the War lie was wounded and captured and was for some time in the same camp for prisoners of war as Mr Cecil Graves,

Director of Empire and Foreign Services, recently appointed Controller of Programmes in the 8.8. C. Mr'Sliewcn joined the 8.8. C. in 1924 in the com- - paratively early days of broadcasting j in Great Britain. He recalls that in- j tercsting methods were sometimes 1 adopted to determine a man’s suita- I bility for a position in the 8.8. C. One I day lie was told to ring up Savoy Hill and was astonished at being called | upon to answer a considerable number | of questions which seemed to him to ( be quite irrelevant. Afterwards he | learned that, unknown to him, offi- j cials at the other end were testing his voice with the idea of discovering I whether he would make a suitable announcer. Mr Shewen has three colleagues, Messrs Gray, Dougall, and Richardson, .whose voices must by now be equally well-known to Empire listeners. All of the Empire announcers have been specially chosen because it is thought they have voices particularly suitable for transmission on shortwaves

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