RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21982, 13 December 1934, Page 5

RADIO IN THE HOME

NEW IYA TRANSMITTER IN OPERATION NEXT WEEK VARIED OPENING PROGRAMME BY ALL-WAVE Testing having been completed, the new IYA transmitter will on Monday next be used for the first time on a programme schedule, although officially the plant will not come into operation until about mid-Januarv on a date yet to be fixed. The Broadcasting Board has announced, however, that should the controlling engineers deem it advisable the huge set will be shut down and the old plant left to take over the running. From the excellent tests of late it would seem a very remote possibility that there should arise the necessity for shutting down the new plant. Many, .listeners have already heard the new station in operation, and it seems to be generally the opinion that tuning on it is not unduly broad, some listeners claiming it to cover less of the dial than the old IYA, It is not known, however, whether the tests were at full power, but it is highly probable, particularly in the initial stages, that the plant was operated well below its maximum output. For its "first night" on Monday next the new IYA will provide what promises to be one of the finest radio programmes put on the air for a very long time. Madame Goossens-Viceroy, the j ; iioted Belgian dramatic soprano, will ! sing many numbers, with the Studio j Orchestra accompanying her. With her j will appear a well-known Australian | vocalist, Raymond Beatty. Paul yino- j gr.adoff, the Russian pianist, who has ! earned an enviable reputation over the I past few months, is to play Grieg's j "Concerto in A Minor." The Studio Orchestra will provide a goodly portion of the programme, and at 9.2 Professor Maxwell Walker will be ;heard in a talk on "What Radio Broadcasting Can Do." At 10 o'clock Gene Sarazen, champion golfer, will talk on "Golf, Answers and Questions." ! Quite apart from the golfing aspect. ! this talk is certain to be vastly enter- ! taining. His similar efforts over the [ Australian national chain. delighted listeners. Listeners will appreciate the announcement made recently by the Postmsister-General, the Hon. A. Hamilton, that on April 1, 1935, when licences become due for renewal, the* fee will be reduced by 5s to 25s per* I annum It has been pointed out that with the raising of the piower of tho main stations there will be available to any listener with a good receiver three or four programmes at a cost" to each licencee of , approximately five-sixths of a penny a day. The Broadcasting Board ! had retained the fee at its past high level, the highest fee charged anywhere in the world, because it was in need of funds for the purchase of sufficiently powerful transmitters to secure ample coverage for country listeners. It is the finding of,/this* necessity,; the completion of the station building programme, that has enabled the board to make the reduction. < 1 . 7 The British Broadcasting Corporation's Advisory Committee on Spoken English has been reconstituted and enlarged. Sir. Bernard Shaw will continue 2is chairman and Professor Lloyd James as honorary secretary. Other members of the original committee who will continue to give the 8.8.C. the benefit of their invaluable co-operation are Professor Daniel Jones and Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith: - The ' original committee consisted of seven members, but the new committee will have 23 members, the additions being the foU lowing:—Lady Cynthia Asquith, the Hon. Maurice Baring, Lord David Cecil, Dr. George Gordon, Professor H. J. C. Grierson, Miss Rose Macaulay, Professor B. 0. K. Wyld, Messrs. Kenneth Clark, F. J. Lucas, P. H. B. Lyon, Edward Marsh, Harold Orton, S. K. Raicliffe, and I. A. Richards. Representatives .from the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature' will' also' be appointed. .' In the meantime Dr. Gordon, who is pre-sident-of Magdalen College, will represent the Royal Society of Literature, and Dr. H. Costley-White, headmaster of Westminster School, will represent the English Association. The re-equipping of the mam stations proceeds apace. Before the new Auckland plant is in operation tenders will have been accepted * for the new 4YA station, Dunedin, which is to be of 10 kilowatts output. Arrangements are already in tram to increase the power of 2YA and 3YA. No definite date has been announced for the opening of the new IYA, although the opening is likelv to be some time next month. One hopes it may be early in the month, as the humming and the burbling noises which listeners hear all too frequently from the present plant are becoming rather trying. It is said .that the Broadcasting Board is considering the necessity for specially painting the 500 ft. masts, so as to render them conspicuous to aircraft. PROM IYA To-day (also to 1ZH): 8 p.m., relay from Pitt Street Methodist Church of Handera "Messiah" by choirs under the conductorehip of Mr. A. Bryant, with Mr. Edgar Randall at the organ. Solmsts, Nancy Hucklmg (eoprano), Phyllis Hazell (contralto), Horace , Maddocka (tenor), Frank Sutherland (bass;: 10 to 11,, popular and dance music. To-itiorrow (also to 1ZH): 8 p.m., Gilbert and Sullivan hour, featuring "The Mikado"; 9.2. reserve period; 9.20, ballad; programme; 9.20, eeptet; 9.27, Irene Ainsley (contralto), with violin obligato, "My Ain Folk," "Serenata," (Braga) and "Hieheen"; 9.41, eeptet, "My Lady Brocade" and "Spanish Serenade"; 9.49, Richard Tauber; 9.57. septet, "Anne Boleyn," Gavotte; 10 to 11, popular and dance music. Saturday: 8 p.m., Studio Orchestra, "Punch and Judy" ballet: 8.8, recordings of Irish melodies; 8,20, "Mysterious Happenings," a Japanese houseboy number; 8.34, Studio Orchestra, "Children's Suite" and "Tout Paris"; 9.2, talk, Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., "War Poet as Historian"; 9.20, recorded feature, "Musio Round the Campfire"; 9.35. - orchestra, "Dunkirk." "Under the Palms"; 9.50, Raymond Newell (baritone); 9.54, orchestra, "Hibernian Suite"; 10.10 to 11.10, dance music. SuiV days 11 a.m., service from St. Mark's Anglican Church; 3.30 p.m., recorded talk, Dr. Markham Lee, ''Tschaikowsky"; 7, service from Pitt Street Methodist Church: 8.30. relay from Albert Park of Auckland Municipal Band Concert, featuring cornet - duet by F. Bowes and J. Davies, "The Friendly Rivals," and clarinet solo, "Fantasia on Scotch melodies,," played by E. Pheloung. Monday (also to 1ZH): 8 p.m., Studio Orchestra, "Egmont": u.lO, Raymond Beatty (basso cantate), "Fair House of Joy,"'"No" and "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride : 8.35, Madame' proossens-Viceroy (dramatic soprano), "Impatience," "The Post," "The -Trout," "Serenade" and "Hnrk, Hark, the Lark"; 8.44, Paul Vinogradoff (pianist). in A Minor' • 9.2, talk, Professor Maxwell Walker. "What Radio Broadcasting Can Do"; 9.20, orchestra. "Suite Fantastique '. 9.30, Raymond Beatty with orchestra, "The Erl King," "More Sweet is that Name" and "Droop ISot Young Lover", 9.40, Madame GoossensViceroy, with orchestra. "Song of India" . and "Ave Maria" -.50, orchestra, "Men of Prometheus; 10. talk. Gene Sarazen. '"Golf, Answers and Questions"; 10.30 to 11, dance music. Tuesday (also to 1ZH): 8 p.m.. 8.8.C. recorded programme, "Chopin," a romantic play; 9.2, talk. Mr. H. J. Gilmore, "London, Eaßt and West : 9.27, Sergia Rachmaninoff, "Polka de W. 8." and "In a Three Horse Sleigh"; 9.35, Ihe Austrian Yellow Diamond," a drama about diamonds; 10 to 11. dance musio. Wednesday; g p.m., quartet in D Major (Haydn); 8.10, Ramond Beatty, "Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves," "Marisbka" and "Shepherd, See Thy Horse's Foaming Mane"; 8.20. Madame Goossens-Viceroy, "Ah. Twine No Blossoms," "A Kiss," "Slumber Song," "At Night" and "Flood, of Spring"; 8.30 Paul Vinogradoff. "Russian Fantasy," "Submerged Cathedral" and "Eleventh Hungarian Rhapsody"; 8.43. Raymond Beatty. "Sombre Woods," "The Minstrel" •nd "To the Forest": 8.52, Madame Goos-sens-Viceroy,' "That Night in May," "Serenade," '.'Nightingale," "The Disappointed Serenader" and "Faithful Love"; 9.2. reserved period; 9.20 to 11. dance musio.