RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21518, 15 June 1933, Page 17

RADIO IN THE HOME

BROADCASTS FROM IYA

LONGER SUNDAY HOURS SPIVAKOVSKY-KURTZ TRIO Sunday morning broadcasts between 9 a.m.' and 11 will bo introduced at IYA on Sunday. The afternoon session will be extended also, commencing at 1 o'clock instead of 2, and closing as usual at 4.130. The extra three hours will be devoted to gramophone records of the sort broadcast on Sunday afternoons. The longer hours will also be adopted by the three other YA stations. The most important broadcast from IYA in the coming week will be the relay of the second portion of a concert in Auckland by the SpivakovskyKurtz Trio on Wednesday evening. It will be followed by dance music. Details are:— To-day.—12.30 p.m., service from St. Matthew's Church; 3.30. home science talk; 8, records; 8.8, male choir; 8.13, records; 8.22, choir; 8.30, records; 8.33, piano and 'cello; 8.42, records; 8.48, choir: 8.54, record; 9.2. talk, Arthur Ross; 9.20, record; 9.23, choir; 9.32, record; 9.35, piano and cello; 9.44, records; 9.50, choir; 9.55, band. To-morrow: 7.40 p.m., A. P. Neesham, {'Association Football"; 8, IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8.9, records (vocal quartet, piano); 8.16, baritone, G. Colledge; -8.23, Orchestra; 8.30. contralto. Dawn Harding: 8.37, record (accordion quartet); 8.40, organ rocital, Arthur E. Wilson; 9.2, reserved; 9.17, Orchestra; 9.24, G. Colledge; 9.31, record (humour); 9.37, Orchestra; 9.40, Dawn Harding; 9.47, records (violin and accordion, tenor): 9.53, Orchestra. Saturday: 2.45 p.m., Rugby from Eden Park; 7.30, horticulture talk; 8, IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8.7, baritone, Fred Baker; 8.14. record (saxophone); 8.17, records (vocal accordions); 8.23, musical sketch, Sayers Duo; 8.33, record (tenor); 8.36, Orchestra; 8.44, soprano, Mrs. Wallace Good; 8.51, record (accordions); 8.54, Orchestra: 9.2, Stroller, "Musings in a Waiting Room"; 9.17, Orchestra; 9.21, Fred Baker: 9.24. records (humour, accordions); 9.33, Sayers Duo: 9.43, Orchestra: 9.53, Mrs. Wallace Good; 10. sport 3 resume: 10.10 till 11.10, dance music. Sunday: 9 a.m. till 11, records; 1 p.m. till 4.30, records; 6. children's song service; 7, service from West Street Church of Christ (Pastor W. Campbell); 8.30, Municipal Band relay. Monday: 7.30 p.m., agriculture talk; 8, record (orchestra); 8.9, soprnno, Verner Wishart; 8.16. records (banjo, baritone); 8.22, instrumental. Jfovelty Four; 8.23, record (humour); 8.34, Verner Wishart; 8.41, Novelty Trio; 8.45, records (tenor, orchestra, vocal quartet); 8.5-1, Trio; 9.2, wrestling. Tuesday: 1.50 p.m., educational session; 7.30, book review; 8, records: 9.2, Professor R. M. Algie, "Pompeii": 9.22, records; 10 till 'll. dance music. Wednesday: 11.15 a.m.. trotting from Alexandra Park: 12.30 p.m., community singing from Town <Hall; 7.30, Ralph Hipkins. "Music—the Good Companion"; 8, records: 8.30. Congress Hall Band; 8.34, tenor. Leslie Belcher; 8.41, record (violin): 8.45, Band: 8.49. records (tenor, orchestra); 8.55. Band; 9.2, relay Spivakovsky-Kurtz Trio; 10 till 11. _ dance music. Thursday: 12.30 p.m.. service frnm St. Matthew's Church: 7.30 p.m., N. M. Richmond, "The Socialist Movement"; 8, IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8.11, records (orchestra, violin); 8.17, basitone, Robert Simmers; duet, Gwenda Weir and Robert Simmers; 8.24, J records (instrumental, vocal): 8.33. piano, Lillian Ouinn: 8.41, Robert Simmers; 8.44, Orchestra: 8.52. records (tenor, band); 9.2, Isobel M. Cluott. "The Countryside of England": 9.17, Orchestra; 9.25, Lillian Quinn; 9.32, 6oprano, Gwenda Weir; duet. Gwenda Weir and Robert Simmers: 9.41, record (viola): 9.47, Orchestra', 9.51, Gwenda Weir; 9.57, record (band). , SPEECH BY KING BROADCAST OF RECORD Although the announcer's voice was heard with comparative clarity, the broadcast on Tuesday evening of the King's speech and that of Mr. Kamsay Mac Donald at the opening of the World Economic Conference in. London, recorded by the Blattnerphone process, .was disappointing to New Zealand listners. The records were broadcast from the Empire short-wave station at Daventry, England, and were re-broad-cast by the four national stations in the Dominion. The signal strength was much greater than that of the short-wave transmission of the actual opening of the conference in the early hours of Tuesday morning (New Zealand time), but the recorded speeches were distorted and only occasional portions of them could be distinguished. It is stated that although the recording process used is remarkably effective over distances of up to 500 miles, quality of reception deteriorates over greater distances. During preliminary testing at IYA for about three-quarters of an hour before the rebroadcast began, reception is understood, to have been good, the announcer's voice coming through with rcmarkablo clarity, but as soon as the recorded speeches were put on distortion occurred. ON ALL WAVE-LENGTHS iAt March 1 there' were 4,480,250 radio licences in force in Germany, an increasce of 52,650 since February, but of these no less than 551,690 were free. Free licences since .February. increased by 17,440. In Great Britain at March 31 the total was 5,498,700, an increase for the month of 71,000. The British Broadcasting Corporation's head pronouncer, Mr. A. Lloyd James, its chief announcer (who is, of course, not allowed to have a name) and the genial M. Steplian appear in a British instructional film called " King's English," which is descriptive of the adventures of a news item on its journey from the time of occurrence to its transmission from Broadcasting House. At the end of 1932 more than 250 " wired radio " services were in operation in England, licensed by the Post Office, and catering for 82,600 subscribers. These figures snow. an .increase, and register a decided demand for such services. Moreover, the idea is growing and has spread overseas; such ser- ' vices are being mooted in Malta, Bermuda and elsewhere. One by one the various Governments, by their imitation of the English broadcasting methods, flatter the Rood sense of those who laid the foundations of British broadcasting. Following a recent decision in the Norwegian Parliament the Norwegian broadcasting system is to be converted into a Government undertaking. The voting was 91 for to 48 against. At present the broadcasting is dono by private enterprise. . Cecil Graves, the Empire Service Director, is now getting into - his real stride. For the first few months ho was naturally reluctant to squander _ his best programme resources. So he wisely waited until the engineers reported reasonably good conditions of reception throughout most of the Empire. JVow that he has the " all-clear," he is going straight ahead, and I prophesy a marked subsidence of the _ complaints ,jthat have been coming in since Christmas, remarks an English writer. Television'cannot bo described as a popular form of entertainment —and, judging from some of the " turns presented by the British Broadcasting' Corporation one concludes that the 8.8.C. intends it to follow on the lines of sound broadcasting by being highbrow as far as possible, says a'n Enrrlish writer. Who would sit up till nearly midnight in order to see a flickering' reproduction of an Elizabethan tobacco-pipe or even to see a charming ladv present —charminglv—a dance called " A Sirh in the Court of Perpetual Faith " ?