RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21844, 5 July 1934, Page 18

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMMES FROM IYA BROADCASTS FOR THE WEEK MANY INTERESTING ITEMS The main items to be broadcast from IYA in the coming; week arc:—-To-day.—B, record; 8.4, record. "Superstition," walking beneath a ladder; 8.18. sketch, " Mr. Sampson," Maisie Carte-Lloyd Players; 8.14, record, "Glimpses of Australian Lifo"; 9.2, Dennis Neal. "Old English Customs": 0.20, abridged "recorded version, "The Barber of Seville": 10. records: 10.30 till 11, dance music. To-morrow: 7.-10 p.m., H. Frost, chairman of tho Aucklnnd Rugby Football Unior; 8, studio orchestra and records: 9.2, Mrs. Inn. W. Stephens, "Travels in Holland"; 9.20. ballad programme: 10, records; 10,30 till 31, dance music. Saturday; 3 p.m., Inter-Island Rugby from Eden Park; 7.30, July gardening; 8, records; 9.2, Dr. A. J. Harrop, "Impressions of Today's Rugby Match": 9.20, records; 10, sports summary; 10.10 till 11.10, dance music. Sunday: 9 a.m., records; 11, service from Jit. Eden Baptist Church (Rev. B. L. Fursdon); 1 p.m. till 4.30, records; 6, children's song service; 7. servico from St. Luko's Presbyterian Church (Hov. .T. A. Thomson); 8.30, records; 9.2. dramatic recital, n. Ward; record; 9.25, Gregory IvanofT, violinist; 9.40, Doris Bransgiove, soprano: 9.51 till 10.5, records. Monday: 7.30 p.m., R. P. Ilill, "Pumice Lands": 8, "H.M.S. Pinafore" and other Gilbert and Sullivan gems; 9.2, wrestling: 10, F. S. Murray. ex-New Zealand Rugby football representative, "My New Zealand Team, Selected from Players of tho Past 30 Years"; 10.30 till 11. dunce music, Tuesday: 1.50 p.m., education; 7.30, book review; 8, records; 8.56, reserved; 9.2, Phoebe Clark, "London Theatre Memories, tho Old Vic."; 9.20, records; 9.41, reserved; 10 till 11. dance music. Wednesday: 12.30 p.m., community singing: 7.(0 p.m.. Professor Arnold Wall, "English Folk Songs, Tragic- or Mournful"; 8, chamber music hour; 9.2, Alan Mulgan, "World Affairs"; 9.20 till 11, danco music. Thursday: 7.40 p.m.. Professor W. A. Sowell, "Literature ; 8. records; 8.1, recorded foature, "Dressing the Honorable Archie"; 8.17, sketch. " Tho Critic on the Hearth," J. W. Bailey and players; 9.2, Dennis A. Neal, " An Old English Road"; 9.Q0, recorded operatic excerpts; 10, records; 10.30 till 11, danco music. GRAND OPERA FROM 2YA A recorded version of Wagner's opera " The Twilight of the Gods " will be broadcast from 2YA on Sunday night, commencing at 8..50 and occupying about an hour and a-half. Madame Florence Austral is among tho artists who interpret the opera. The orchestras will bo the London Symphony and tho Berlin State Opera, the chorus being that of the Berlin State Opera. VIOLINIST'S BROADCAST The popular violinist Gregory Ivanoff who is a member of tho Clem Da we Revue Company, will be heard, from IYA on Sunday night, commencing at 9.25. Hg will give a quarter-hour recital with explanatory introductions. WELLINGTON CONCERT A vaudeville concert arranged by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, to be given in the Wellington Town Hall in aid of the Mayor's relief fund on Saturday night, will be broadcast from 2YA. The performers will include Senia Chostiakoff, noted Russian singer and former principal soloist of the famous Don Cossack Choir; an imitation balalaika orchestra; Paul Yinogradoff and Gordon Short, pianists, playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue," with orchestra; and other popular artists. The performance will commence at 8 p.m. and will occupy about two hours and 20 minutes. Similar concerts for the relief of distress will be given in tho other three main centres.

RUGBY FOOTBALL Those interested in Rugby football will be well catered for from IYA this week. At 7.40 to-morrow night Mr. H. Frost, chairman of the Auckland Rugby Union, will discuss players and prospects for the All Black trial match between the North and South Islands in Auckland on Saturday afternoon. The talk will occupy 20 minutes. The match will be described from IYA on relay from Eden Park, and in the evening, commencing at 9.2, impressions of the game from the English standpoint will be given by Dr. A. J. Harrop. a New Zealander who has been in London for some years. He recently gave a series of lectures on Fleet Street journalism from 2YA, and he is an authority on Rugby football, having written a series of articles on football and cricket in England for New Zealand newspapers. INCREASED POWER Though Australian broadcasting stations give quite a good volume using a maximum power of from five to 7i kilowatts in the aerial, from information received this week by Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Limited, it is clear that in Europo the policy of establishing very much higher powered stations will continue. The Marconi Company has been instructed by the Swiss Government to increase the power of the existing station at Beromunster from 60 to 100 kilowatts. There are twelve other stations in Europo of 100 kilowatts—Leningrad, Moscow (three stations), Minsk (two stations), Kiev, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Munich and Paris. Five stations have a power of ]2O kilowatts, namely, Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna Prague and Leipzig. The Luxemburg station uses 150 kilowatts and the great station at Moscow, one of the two most powerful in the "world, has a power of 500 kilowatts.

In the United States, 27 stations work with 50 kilowatts, and the station at Cincinnatti, Ohio, has been increased to 500 kilowatts.

In the Swiss station tho Marconi Company is incorporating a new "floating carrier" system, which automatically controls the carrier wave radiated and effects a large saving in power.

ON ALL WAVE-LENGTHS Yet another station lias opened in \ ust r alia. This is GAM, Nortlmin, Western Australia, which broadcasts on a frequency of 1090 kilocycles, using a power of 500 watts, An announcement was recently made in the British House of Commons by the Home Secretary, Sir John Gilmour, that a by-law was being drawn up for adoption by local authorities for dealing with tho nuisance created by the inconsidora.te use of loud speakers and like devices by private individuals. This action lias been taken consequent upon the representations of residents of certain urban districts.

A scheme for estimating the number of listeners to a particular programme has been suggested by Dr. N. M. Hopkins. a lecturer at the New York University. Sets operated from electricity supply networks would be fitted with a, current-consuming device of some kind, which, upon the request of the announcer for those "present," would be momentarily connected. The total increase of power consumed would be simultaneously read at the power station. This would be a measure of the audience. Approval or disapproval of an item would be likewise indicated. Listeners using battery-operated receivers, of course, could not bo included in this tally.