WIRELESS PROGRAMMES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19860, 2 February 1928, Page 17

WIRELESS PROGRAMMES

THIS EVENING'S BROADCASTS. MANY INTERESTING ITEMS. FEATURES FOR TO-MORROW. Features of programmes to he sent out by New Zealand and Australian broadcasting stations to-day aro as follows: Auckland; IYA (333 metres). —3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children's session; 7.15 p.m , news service; 8 p.m., relay of orchestral music at Strand Picture Theatre; 8.12, Mr. C. Williams, baritone, songs; 8.19, Miss C. Ormiston,.soprano, songs; 8.24, selections by the Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey instrumental trio; 8.30, talk on " The Waitakere Ranges" by Mr. H. Greenhow; 8.42, Mr. B. O'Malley, tenor, songs; 8.49, ■ Miss Mina Caldow, contralto, songs; 8.54, weather forecast; 8.55, vocal duets by the Bohemian duo; 9.2, relay of orchestral music at Strand Theatre; 9-12, Mr. Williams, songs; 9.16, instrumental trio; 9.20, Miss Ormiston, songs; 9.27. Mr. C. Rich, piano sketch and monologue; 9.36, Mi". O'Malley, songs; -9.40, Mr. Cyril Towsey, piano solos; 9.44, Miss Caldow, songs; 9.51, instrumental trio; 10.1. the Bohemian duo. Wellington, 2YA (420 metres).—3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children's session; 7 p.m., news service; 8 p.m., selections by Wellington Municipal Tramways Band; 8.6, selections by the Clarian vocal quartette; 8.10, band; 8.17, Mr. L. Barnes, baritone, songs; 8.22, band; 8.32, Mr. F. Skinner, tenor, songs; 8.37, band; 8.55, Messrs. R. Kemp and L. Barnes, vocal duet; 8.59, weather forecast; 9.1, talk on " Big Game Fishing in the Far North " by Captain Hamilton Nimmo, chairman of the New Zealand Deep-Sea Angling Club; 9.17, Mr. A. Coe, tenor, songs; 9.21, band; 9.27, vocal quartette; 9.31, band; 9.36, Mr. Kemp, songs; 9.40, band; 9-50, quartette; 9.54, band. Christchurch, 3YA (306 metres).—3 p.m., studio concert; 6 p.m., children s session; 7.15 p.m., news service; 7.30 p.m., talk on " The Stamps of New Zealand " by Mr. R. J- G. Collins, of the Christchurch Philatelic Society; 8 p.m., relay of orchestral music at Everybody s Picture Theatre; Miss J. King and Mr. H Prescott, contralto and tenor, duet; Mr. B. Rennell, baritone, songs; Miss L. Fullwood, piano solos; selections by Christchurch broadcasting instrumenta.l trio; Madame Gower-Burns, soprano, and Mr. Rennell, duet; Miss N. Hooper, recital- _ . _ Dunedin, 4YA (463 metres) —7.30 p.m., news service; 8 p.m., re l*y °* orchestral music at Octagon Picture Theatre; Mr. F. M. Tuohy, tenor, songs; Miss A. Wilson, piano solos; Miss W. McPeak, contralto, songs; Mr. M. Robilliard, 'cello solos; Mr. E. G. Bond, bass, songs; Miss Rita Holmes, soprano, songs. Australian Stations. Sydney, 2FC (442 metres).—B.ls p.m., talks to children by "Hello Man 9.30 p.m., news service; 10 p.m., concert programme, including selections by 2FC studio orchestra; vocal and instrumental items; dance music. Sydney, 2BL (353 metres).— 8.10 p.m., entertainment for children; 9.30 p.m., news service; 10.30 p.m., concert programme, including selections by Broadcasters' topical chorus; vocal and instrumental items; danco music. Melbourne, 3LO (371 metres).—B p.m., entertainment for children; 9.30 p.m., news service; 10.30 p.m., concert programme, including orchestral music; vocal and instrumental items; dance music. Brisbane, 4QG (385 metres). 9 p.m. y entertainment for children; 9.30 p.m., news service; 10.30 p.m., concert programme, including vocal and instrumental items; dance music. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Bosworth-llemus-Towsey instrumental trio will provide several selections at the Auckland ligation this evening. The Wellington Municipal _ Tramways Band will play several selections at the Wellington station this evening. The band's numbers will include Action Front''; overture, "La Flandre ; and waltz, "Fair Rosamond." Captain Hamilton Nimmo, chairman of the New Zealand Deep-Sea Atagling Club, will talk about deep-sea sport at the Wellington station at nine this evening. FEATURES FOR TO-MORROW. Features of programmes to be sent ont by the Auckland and Wellington stations to-morrow are as follows: — Auckland, IYA (333 metres).—7.ls p.m., talk on motoring by Mr. G. Campbell; 8 p.m., concert programme, including relay of orchestral music at Princess Theatre; selections by the Waiata vocal quartette; items by the Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey instrumental trio; vocal and instrumental items. Wellington, 2YA (420 metres).—/.40 p.m., talk on athletics by Mr. D. G. Paris; 8 p.m., concert programme, including selections by the Ariel vocal quartette; selections by the Symons-Ellwood-Short instrumental trio; vocal and instrumental items. ADVERTISING RADIO. NOVEL GERMAN METHOD. A travelling broadcasting station is one of the latest devices for promoting the use of radio in Germany. No such promotion is needed in the great cities, where the increase of patronage is phenomenal. On October 1. 1927. there were in Germany more than 1,750.000 subscribers, the number of new ones in three months being nearly 44,000 Listening is popular among city dwellers, but in the country regions, especially in the eastern p&ri of Germany there is need of advertising. _ The means of promoting interest in broadcasting is.being supplied in an ingenious but appropriate fashion. There has neen constructed a huge motor truck conta'ring a complete receiving and transmitting station, which is to travel ajiout the country givinc concerts, lectures and what not in towns where the radio is little used, if at all On top of it is a derrick carrying aerials for receiving and loud speaker* foi transmitting, at a height of 25ft. Thus it is able to serve an audience gathered in and about a marketplace o r a whole section of,a town. It is expected that the operations of this peripatetic station will induce many persons to purchase receiving sets of their own. NEW USE FOR RADIO. STREET LIGHTS CONTROLLED. Radio waves are now in regular service to light and extinguish street lamps in one of the residential districts of San Francisco. So fat it has worked well, and if it •continues to do so radio control will he used for the entire street lighting system. . , , The old method required a separate circuit toi street lamps, since otherwise turninn then, oil wovilo also extinguish lamps m every home on that line. Carrier current light control overcomes this obstacle. A device called a capacitator is connected on a line at the sub-station and superimposes a high "frequency current that merely uses this line as a path and in no way interferes with the load it carries for the lights in houses. Lines of any voltage n!ay bfr used, since all lii/es look alike to high frequency current. The new method controls 916 lights. As the radio wave used has a length of 9000 metres it does not interfere with nearby vadio reception.