RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 5

RADIO IN THE HOME

BROADCASTS FROM HYA THE WEEK'S PROGRAMMES 'STUDIO ORCHESTRA ITEMS Details of the inn in items to be broadeust from IYA in the coining week are:— To-day.V tn spoils t;i 1k; 8, Studio Oiencstni; records; 8.18, bass. Mr. i/iincan iilacu; record; 8.01, Orchestra; records; 8.4 V. Urchestra; records; 9.2, L. W. Demi. ''Cairo"; 9.2'2. Orchestra; records; 9.30. Oiehestra; records; 9.60, Orcbestra. To-morrow; 7.30 p.m., horticulture; 8, Municipal Band, with Jean Clarkson, 'cello; Mrs. Freda Evans, soprano; violin, Helen Grey; 10, sports resume; 10.10 till 11.10, dance music. Sunday: 9 a.m. till 11 and 1 p.m. to 4.30, records; 6, children's song service: 7, servico from Baptist Tabernacle; 8.00, Studio Orchestra; records; 8.47, soprano, Gwencfa Weir; record; 9.2, Orchestra; 9.0, Gwenda Weir; 9.13, Orchestra; 9.20. 8.8.C. record. "Elian Vnnnin Through ihe Aeis," n Manx National programme. Monday: 7.30 p.m.. agriculture; 8, records; 9.2, wiestliug. Tuesday: 7.30 p.m.. book rej view; 8. records; 9.2. Sir James fair, "Humorous Stories of Public Life"; 9.22. records; 10 till 11. dance music. Wednesday; 12.30 p.m. community singing; Hev. W. Jollie, "Modem Irish Poetry": 8. records: 8.30, Marelle Sextet; 8.3(5, records; 8.42, baritone, Stan. Pritchard; record; 8.56, Sextet: 9.2, A. C. Mulyan, "World Affairs": 9.22, Sextet; 9.25, 9.28, Sextet; 9.31 till 11, dance music. Thursday: 7.30 p.m.. W.E.A. talk by a mechanic; 8. Studio Orchestra; records; 8.21, contralto, Madame Ireno Ainsley; record: 8.34, Orchestra; 8.40, sketch. Norah Whineray and C. F. Burnett; 5.50, record: 8.5G, Orchestra; 9.0. Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, "Slave Trading"; 9.22, Orchestra; record; 9 32, Madame Irene Ainsley; 9.39, sketch: 9.47, Orchestra; record; 9.63. Orchestra. I NEW AUCKLAND STATION J Further losts in connection with ! the new .site for the IYA transmitter have been carried out in recent weeks. The engineers are making certain that ! no mistakes are made in the selection j of the final site. Meanwhile plans for the now studio at the top of Shortlnnd Street are being } ire pa rod by the architects. In this instance, too, the Broadcasting Board is sparing no effort to obtain the very best studio that circumstances will : allow. j i ALTERNATIVE STATION There is a probability that Aucklanders will permanently enjoy IYX as an alternative station to IYA during the news session between 7 p.m. and 7.80. The auxiliary station, which was originally installed for testing purposes in connection with the new site for the Auckland transmitter, broadcasts recordings of after-dinner music on 600 kilocycles. Considerable appreciation of this additional service, which Wellington has enjoyed for some time througn 2YC (1010 kilocycles), has been expressed by listeners. Reports of good reception on IYX have been received from as far south as Dunedin. NEW 2YA MICROPHONES Listeners who have been impressed with the improved quality of the musical programmes, other than those of the recorded va.rietv, from 2YA, will be interested to know that this is due almost entire!, to the new microphones recently installed. These microphones, known as the velocity type, give a faithful rendering of every note from the deepest bass of the organ to well above the top note on the piano. These | microphones work on the principle of a. I vibrating ribbon and in addition to their I other advantages aro very directional, j Sound arriving from the side has no effect upon them. It is possible thereI fore that the atmosphere of a busy | city as transmitted through the hoots ! of passing motor vehicles may not be j so noticeable in the future. IPROGRESS WITH NEW 3YA Work is now well under way at> Gebbie's Pass, the site of the now transmitter for 3YA. The first of the buildings to honso the transmitter has now been completed. The foundations for the masts have been laid and one mast, in fact, has already been partially erected. When completed both masts will be ;100 feet high, but tho constructional work will go quickly Ahead provided weather conditions do not interfere/These masts, when completed; will each weigh 75 tons. They are designed to withstand winds many time* stronger than those usually experienced 111 New Zealand. The radio authorities confidently expect this station to be open before the end of tho year. ON ALL WAVE-LENGTHS A man who was recently charged with using a wireless receiving set without a licence pleaded that ho was suffering from temporary loss of memory. He is now suffering from a permanent loss of five pounds, For tho Radio Exhibition at Olympia, London, this month, tho National Hall has been converted into n studio with seating accommodation for 2000, and part of the regular radio programmes will he broadcast from there. The number of stands at tho exhibition is about 000. Some 07 per cent of Germany's listeners gave particulars of their receiving apparatus for the purpose of the recent radio census. The results bliow that 74.8 per cent of listeners nso sets with from one to three valves, while 18 per cent possess larger receivers. Only about 7 per cent now use crystal sets, as compared with 10 per cent two years ago. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, one of the few distinguished people who have previously refused to broadcast, mas recently heard over the air in London. Mr. Kipling for a time even refused to allow any of his works to be broadcast, but Edward Gorman's charniinu settings of tho songs " Just So" were broadcast in April and again in .July. Mr, Kipling spoke to the microphone at a function given by the Royal Society of Literature to members of tho Canadian Authors' Association on a visit to England. Lord Crowe and Mr. G. | K Chesterton also spoko. Is it farewell in London radio to the deep depression over Iceland and the anti-cyclone, too? Meteorological phrases which the British Broadcasting Corporation has helped to make familiar are likely to disappear from the proscpaminos. ll'venllv, as an experiment. weather forecast took the form of a casual aniioiinoeino"t t'lat it would be fine ai 111 warn 1. All 111" technical data, beloved of variety artists, was cut out. The 15,8.C. then awaited comment. There has been surprisingly little, and all favourable. Another parallel move is one to make talks shorter, snappier, more vivid. Now life has 1 been given to many of the smaller broadcasting stations of the Km pi re since tho inauguration of tho short-wave programmes from Daventry. According to an Indian correspondent tile Calcutta and Bombay stations now frequently relay tho _ Empire programmes, and have, in consequence, secured a larger audience, (hit of 20 relayed programmes the Calcutta station director classified 10 as being well received throughout, nine in which reception was good but marred by fading, and only ono in which reception was definitely unsatisfactory. At Colombo, Ceylon, a now station is being erected specially to relay the 8.8.C, programmes each evening.