RADIO NOTES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21377, 29 December 1932, Page 10

RADIO NOTES

BROADCASTS FROM IYA EXTENDED HOURS AGAIN NEW YEAR'S. EVE'' PLANS Similar extended hours to those of th« past week will be observed by IYA in the coming week. The station will remain on the air until after midnight on. New ' Year's Eve. Dance music beginning at 10.10 will bo followed at 11.30 by a "watch-night" service. Two services, from the Pitt Street Methodist Church (Rev. W. Walker), in the morning, and from St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Canon C. H. Grant Cowen), in the evening, wili bs broadcast on New Year's Day. The trot- . f ting meeting.at Alexandra Park, and the race meeting at Ellerslie will be described. Talks have been reduced to a minimum over the holiday period. The closing-down times on Monday and Wednesday will ragain be 11.10, instead of the ordinary 10 o'clock. Details are: — To-day: 11.30 a.m., trotting: at Alexandra Park; 8 p.m., record; S.!>, soprano, Dulci# M. Hughson; 8.16, record; 8.19, IYA Cham, ber Orchestra; 5.27, humour, Stanley M, Knight; 8.35, violin, Haydn Murray and Orchestra; 8.43, Arthur Wright; 8.50, re. cords; 9.2, sports euraraary; reserved; 9.17, IYA Orchestra; 9.27, Dulcio M: Hughson; 9.33, record; 9.36, 'Stanley M. Knight; 5.43, Orchestra; 9.48, Arthur Wright; 9.54, Orchestra; 10, eporls summary. To-mofrow; 8 p.m., Winter Garden Orchestra; 8.7,~ Linton Eskrigge, tenor; 8.14, record; 8.20, humour, B. J. Watson; 5.26, Orchestra; 8.32, Nellie Lingard, contralto; 8.37, record; 8.40, organ recital, Arthur E. Wilson; 9.2, resume of second cricket test match; reserved; 9.17, Orchestra; 9.23, Linto.a Eskrigge,; 9.27, record; 9.33, B. J. Wat, son; 9.39, Orchestra; 9.47; Xellie Liugard; 9.52, record; 10, sports summary Saturday; 11.30 a.m., trotting at Alexandra Park; 8 p.m.,'record; 8.7, baritone, C. S Munn; 8.14, record: 8.20, IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8.30, eong etory, T. Harris and • partner; 8.40, Orchestra; 8.44,. Sayers Lhio popular songs; 8.51, concertina, Robert Mcl Knight; 8.57, record; 9.3, second cricket' test; 9.8. reserved; 9.20, Orchestra; 9.25 C. S. Munn; 9.29, record; 9.32, T. Harris' and partner; 9.42, Orchestra; 9.46, Sayerg Duo; 9.53, record; 9.56, Robert McKnight--10, eports summary; 10.10, dance music; 31.30, studio "watch-night" service. Sunday': 11 a.m., service from Pitt Street Methodist Church (Rev. W. Walker); 2 p.m., records; 6, children's song service; 7, terries from St. Matthew's (Canon C. H. Grant « Cowen); 8.30 till 10, Municipal Band. Monday: 11.30 a.m., racing at Ellerslie- g p.m., record; 8.4 , Jack and Jill, song and humour; 8.13. record; 8.16, Stan '• Pritchard, baritone; 8.20, IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8,27, record; 8.39, Orchestra ; 8.46, Rita Thomas, contralto--8.52, record; 9. second cricket test; 87* reserved; 9.17, Stan. Pritchard; 922, Orchesl tra; 9.30, Jack and Jill; 9.40, record; Rita-Thomas; 9.47, record; 9.57, Orchestra--10 till 11.10, sports summary; dance music! Tuesday: 11.30 a.m., racing at Ellerslie; V records; 9, second cricket test; 9.7, £ J Broar, C. Muller, " The Danish Folk School"; 9,27, records; 10 to 11.10, sports summary; dance music.. Wednesday: 8 p.m.. records; 8.30, Denis . Sheard. tenor, and Valerie Peacocke, soprano;' 8.39, record--8.42, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bailev: fi.56 re ' cord; 9.2, Samuel J. Gudsell, "Athletics"9.17, record; 9.20. Denis Sheard and Valerie Peacocke; 9.24, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey; 930 dance music; 10 till 11, sports summarydance music. Thursday: 8. record; €.s'. ' Harry Barton, baritone; 5.13, records; 8.19 IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8.24, man, boy soprano; 8.31, record;. 8.34. Hilda Morse, elocutionist; 8.41, Orchestra;. 8.4?, Eileen Miller, contralto; 8.55, Tecord; 9.3, reserved; 9.18. Harry Barton; 9.22, Orchestra; 9.28, Hilda Morse; 9.33, record: 9.36, Eileen Miller; 9.40. Orchestra; JMS. records; 9.55, Orchestra; 10, sports summary: 10.10, close. LICENCE FIGURES SOAK New. licences for receiving sets in the Dominion .last month totalled 2623, over 1400 more than the increase in October, bringing' thp total to 86,411. The higher figure is particularly gratifying considering the usual tendency for the sale of sets to drop in the summer months. The increases for the past seven months are:?— May, 6983; June, 4199; July, 3089; August,. 3552; September, 2948; 'October, < 1222; November 2623. . - Altogether there were 88,622 licences concerned'with radio in New /'Zealand on November 30, as against a grand total of 85,961 at the end 6f the previous month. Besides the 86,411 paid licences for receiving sets, there were 1270 dealers' licences, 634 for transmitting, 5 experimental. 5 special, 266 free and 31 broadcasting. Th« dealers' permits show an increase of 13, of which three aro in Auckland. Of the 86,411 paid receiving licences 25,149 are in the. Auckland district, the other totals being:—Wellington, 35,977; Canterbury, 14,223; Otago, 11,062- Thfl month's increase in Auckland was 769. <*. NOTABLE BROADCAST Dame Sybil Thorndike and her husband, Mr. Lewis Casson, famous English stage artists, will be heard in excerpts from Shakespeare from all the national 1 stations in the Dominion at 8.15 on Sunday; evening, January 8. The entertainment wiil occupy about 12 minutes as part of tha . j 2YA . programme and will be rebroadcast by all the other stations of board. Listeners will applaud the board's continued policy of obtaining broadcasts by world-famous artists. Broadcasts by Joseph Szigeti, famous violinist, and the cricketer Don Bradman are previous not* able examples. - IYA ANNOUNCERS . The strange announcer's voice listeners to IYA have heard in the past week or SO ,is that of Mr. O. S. Booth, of the boards 'head office at Wellington, who is relieving • the assistant-announcer, Mr. H. G. -Trim, who is on holiday. Mr. Trim will return about the middle of next month. The cniet announcer, Mr. Culford Be]!, will be away for four weeks after January 16, and flis place also will be taken temporarily J Mr. Booth. ON ALU WAVE-LENGTHS The finals -of the Auckland Bowling Centre's annual Christmas tournament,wi" be described from IYA. They will pjj " ably be held on Friday or Saturday, xn® games will be commented 011 by a " authority. It will probably, ; be the n rs time such a broadcast has been arranged in New Zealand. ' The epic Christmas Empire broadcast culminating with a speech by His Majesty the King has .been so adequately covered in the ordinary columns of. the HeBALK that only brief reference to it-is necessary here. Its benefit to the radio industry,, especially the short-wave section, shot" 1 be well-nigh immeasurable. , , Remarkable results have Ijeen obtained by the English Post Office in its efforts £ / trace unlicensed wireless listeners. A • though the campaign did not begin on" - October 10, the record number of 784,UW licences had been taken out by the eil of the month. . _ ; This figure includes renewals of licences v which would automatically have bee taken out, but it is 144,000 more than 1 any other month. The previous record vr . v»in October of last year, when a . s ' campaign against pirates was carried on • ■ More than 900 prosecutions were initiated >|; against "pirates" during the month, - v During a recent visit to London the famous film "'comedians, Stan Lauxel^ an Oliver Hardy, were featured as a sul *-.. J prise item" on a London programme, t u 8 dreds crowded round the doors of u»ro«ucasting House, eager to get a glimpse 0 the famous funny men of the screen they left the building. > ;• ' ,