RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21358, 6 December 1932, Page 14

RADIO IN THE HOME

BROADCASTS PROM IYA

AEOLIAN ORCHESTRA RELAY OLD-TIME DANCE MUSIC To-day's and to-morrow's programmes from IYA promise nothing particularly outstanding apart from the. talks. On Thursday a concert, by the Aeolian Orchestra will lie relayed. The items «m Friday will be contributed chiefly by members of the Blind Institute. Old-time dance music by the IYA Chamber Orchestra will provide a welcome change for jazz-weary listeners on Saturday evening. Details are:—

To-day.—7.35 p.m., Professor B. Knight, "City Amenities"; S. .records; 9.3. Professor R. if. Algie, "Inns of Court"; 9.29. records: It), dance music. To-morrow: 7.id p.m.. Dr. E. B, Gunaon. "Live Art". 8, records; Edna Lansroair. piaai« arid soprano; SAO, record .-j ; SAo, Harry A. Barton,, baritone; 9.2, Samuel J. Gudseil. talk on athletics; 9.1T, record; 9.20, Edna . Langrmuir; 9.30, dance music Thursday: 12.30 tun;, service from Sr. Matthew's: 3.15. "Hueting the House Fiv"; e. Aeolian Orchestra concert relay. Friday: 7.30 p.m.. sports talk; 8. programme hy members of Blind Insitute. and records; Band: 8.5. record: B.S, piano. • Stuart Gordon ; 8.12. record; 8/21. School Choir;* t-. 2.. record; 8.30, J.uzz Band; 8.30, vocal. May Bray; 8. I'J. record; 8.48. cornet. Alan Morton; 8.52. record; B.So, Band: 9.2. do? story. S F. Temple: 9.1T, record; 9.21, School Choir; 9 28, piano, Miss L. Martin: 9.33, record; 9.39, saxophone, Stuart Gordon; 9 12, Bay Browne; 9.16, Jazz liana; 9.52. record. Saturday: 3 p.m., records : 7.30. A, E. McMahon, "Chrysanthemums" ; record; B.T. tenor. T. MoiStt; 8.11, record; 8.21. contralto, Maida G. Davison: 8.28. record; 8.38, T. Mofiitt; 8,45, record; s.jl. Maidn Cr. Davison: 8.50, record: 9.2. inserts summary; old-time dance music by IYA Chamber Orchestra; 9.45. humour, Man ItcEwaia; 10, sports summary; 10.10, Old-time dance music. Sunday: 2 p.m., records; 6, children's sons service; T, service from Church of Christ, West Street; 8.30, Hinemoa Bosieur, mezzo-soprano; M. Schroder, baritone; IYA Orchestra and records..

Regular Week-day Sessions.—lo a.m.. devotional service: 10.15, recordj: 11. talk. ■to w.'Tr.en"; 11.15, record*; _ noon, lunch music; 2 p.ni., records; 5. children's session; 6. dinner music: 7. news: 7.30, talk; S.-varied programme;'i"9, weather; 10. or 11, close. Details of regular sessions are published only. iu. ■ the..first week of each month.

VAGUE CRICKET RESULTS An !!annual complaint is made by a Herald reader in Lcvaka, Fiji. " Radio reception of New Zealand stations these days is not much good," he says in a letter. " Just now the favourite item is the cricket results of the English team touring Australia. The Wellington announcer, on whom we mostly rely, is very vague in his cricket announcing. I think he" cannot personally be taking much interest in the matches," he adds ruefully.

EMPIRE REEROADCASTS It, is understood that, the broadcasting authorities are listening carefully to the tests now being conducted from the new Empire 'station at Daren try. If results come up to expectations when the station opens on December 19, it is hoped to rebroadcast some of the programmes from the YA stations. It has not yet been definitely settled whether the re broadcasts will take place- irota _aii stations simultaneously or only from 2YA. Engineers who have been listening to the Empire station testing state that they are very hopeful that results will be consistent "enough to merit incorporating at least a portion of the transmissions in tlmevening nroaramme. As the Empire station transmits for this Dominion from 9.50 p.m.. New Zealand time, onward, there :s little doubt that many 1 ;teners would avail themselves of the" opportunity to listen, say, to the striking of Big Ben and other items peculiar to England. t; POTTED PROGRAMMES One more difficulty has been overcome in the infinitely complex- tasSi of providing 24-hour programing facilities for the new Empire broadcasting service. Agreement has been reached between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Musicians' Union regarding the proposal to supplement the short-wave transmissions from Daventrv with' gramophone records, exported as a kind ot "potted" product. Briefly, the idea is to record a typical B. B.C. ' programme of, say, an hoar's duration, and distribute the discs to local broadcasting stations in some of the remoter parts of the Dominions and colonies. The figure that looms so large in Empire radio calculations, the "lonely settler," will, it is deemed, welcome such an addition to the local fare.

Few of these exiled pioneers are likely to be equipped with short-wave sets for the direct reception of the new Daventry station. Then there is the additional factor that conditions may not always be favourable for long-distance reception. Negotiations have been proceeding with the Musicians' Union over the question of artists' fees for such recording-, and all difficulties have been resolved. But another problem shortly to be tackled is that of the terms on which Empire stations will make use of such records, and it will not be easy of solution.

OX ALL WAYE-LENGTIIS ■ » Tests to discover the suitability of proposed new sites for YA stations are to be undertaken in a short time. A portable transmitter is to be used. It has been decided by the Australian Electrical and Radio Development Association to hold an exhibition in the Town Hail, Sydney, from March 22 to April 7, 1933. Already considerable space has been booked. A review of the broadcasting situation in Europe shows that 44 new stations have corne on the air in European countries in the past three years. This figure does not include stations of a lower-power rating in the aerial than 10 kilowatts, which is higher than any station in Australia. In the effects studio of the British Broadcasting Corporation water-trickles are amplified to sou ad like Niagara Falls, pieces of iron sheeting are rattled to produce artificial thunder, and sticks are tapped on a table to imitate the sound of horses' hooves. t During a French political broadcast listeners were treated to loud cheers of an intensity and duration that did not seem normal. Later it was found that immediately following the broadcast an "applause". record was switched on and left running to provide appropriate atmosphere. Together with a friend who was holidaying with her. a woman recently attended the chaoel at Cohvvn Bay, England, to hear the sermon that was being relayed as an outside broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Two days later she received a letter from her mother which said, "Your cold does not seem to be much better, I recognised your cough during the earlier part of the service!" No other bell in Great Britain has fewer secrets than Big Ben, and no other single sound is so well known in English homes as that deep, reverberating boom which seems to shake one's "wireless set. to pieces. One of Big Ben's secrets has not leaked out. Like one or two other important broadcasters—the King is another —Ben has his own microphone. This is " housed " in a football bladder so as to minimise the full force of Ben s big kick.