WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24372, 9 August 1940, Page 2

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES All YA Stations. Daventry news: 8 a.m., 7, BJ2O, 9.15, 12.30 p.m., .1.15. 5.45. 9, and 11. Weather reports: 6.50 a.m., 10. 1 p.m., 4, 6.55, and 9.10. Official news: 7 p.m. Devotional exercises in the morning, breakfast, lunch, and dinner music, and children's sessions in the evening are regular daily features. Stations open at 6 a.m. and close down at midnight. 4YA, Dunedin (790 k.c.).—10.50 a.m.: Talk by Nelle Scanlan. 11: Talk, "Cooking by Gas." 12 noon: Community sing. 3.15 p.m.: A.C.E. talk, "Making Household Equipment Last." 3.30: Classical music. 4.30: Light music. 7.30: Talk, "The Meaning of Words." 7.50: "Do You Know Why?" 8: "Dad and Dave," .8.15: "_T.he Kingsmen." 8.28: " The Circle of Shiva." 8.41: Selinski String'...Quartet;'," 8.50.:\.1he. Dreamers. 9.15:-The - Albert Sandler Trio. 9.21: The Westminster Singers. 9.27: The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. 9.30: Readings by Professor T. D.- Adams, with musical interludes. 10: Dance music.

4YO, Dunedin (1140 k.c.).—5 to 6 p.m.: Recordings. 6.45: Signal preparation for Air Force. 7: After-dinner music. 8: "Classics for the Connoisseur." 9: "Piccadilly on Parade." 9.14: Dance music. 10: Melody and merriment." 4YZ, InvercargiU (680 k.c.).—5.15 p.m.: Charlie Kunz, pianist. 5.30: Merry moments. 6.15: Carson Robison and his Buckai'oos. 6.45: "Marie Antoinette." 7.10: After-dinner music. 8: Gardening talk. 8.15: London Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.55: Elisabeth Schumann, soprano. 9.10: "The Naughty 'Nineties." 9.30: "Thrills." 9.43: Rhythm time. 3YA, Christchurch (720 k.c.).—11 a.m.: Talk by Nelle Scanlan. 11.15: Talk by Miss Sara McKee, " Help for the Home Cook." 3 p.m.: Classical music. 4: Light music. 7.35: Youth Centre talk, "Attitudes to Work." 8: 3YA Orchestra (conductor, Will Hutchens). 8.12: Studio recital by Alison Cordery, soprano. 8.25: 3YA Orchestra. 8.37: Frank Titterton, tenor. 8.49: 3YA Orchestra. 9.15: Herman Finck and his orchestra. 9.25: Studio recital by Alart Pike, baritone. 9.38: Edith Lorand and her Viennese Orchestra. 9.44: Joseph Hislop, tenor. 9.52: Herman Finck and his orchestra. 10: " Music, Mirth, and Melody." 2YA, Wellington' (570 k.c.).—10.45 a.m.: Talk by Nelle Scanlan. 2 p.m.: Classical hour. 3: A.C.E. talk, "How to Save Fuel." 7.30: "Who's Who and What's What?" 8: "Every Friday Night at Eight." 8.32: "I Pulled Out a Plum." 9.15: Studio programme by the Wellington Caledonian Pipe Band. Solo piper: N. Cruden. Vocalist: Nettie McKay. 10: " Rhythm on Record." IYA, Auckland (650 k.c.).—11 a.m.: Talk by Nelle Scanlan. 2.30 p.m.: Classical music. 3.30: Light music. 7.30: Sports talk by Gordon Hutter. 8: London Symphony Orchestra. 8.10: Mark Raphael, baritone. 8.13: "The Shadow of the Swastika." 8.57: Mark Raphael, baritone. 9.15: "Music from the Theatre": " Coppelia," to the music of Delibes. 9.37: Jussi Bjorling, tenor. 9.45: Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 10: "Music, Mirth, and Melody." Daventry.—War news will oe broadcast from Daventry at the following New Zealand times:—s.3o a.m., 8.20 a.m. (summary). 9.15 a.m.. 11 a.m., 12.30 p.m.. 4 p.m. (summary), 5.45 p.m., 7.30 p.m. (summary), 11 p.m. Overseas Short-wave Stations The following is a list of overseas shortwave stations which broadcast news bulletins in English and may be picked up locally at fair to good strength, the New Zealand times at which they may best be received and the wavelengths in metres and megacycles also being given:— VLR. Melbourne. 8.30 p.m.. 31,32 m <9.58 m.c.) WPIT. Pittsburg, 4.15 p.m., 25.27 m. (11.87m.c). VVGEA Schenectady. 2.3 D p.m., 31.41 m (9 55m c.). WRCA. Npw York, 2.3 C p.m.. 31.02 m (9.66m,c). WBOS, Boston, 5.25 p.m., 31.36 m. (9.57 m c.) KGEI. San Francisco, 5.30 p.m.. 11.55 p.m.. 31.48 m. <9.53rn.c). RADIO SAIGON, 10.15 p.m., 25.46 m (21.79m.C ).