RADIO

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1929, Page 13

RADIO

RADIO IN AUSTRALIA. ./ REVIEW ANTICIPATED. It is anticipated in radio circles in Sydney, states a Sydney newspaper, that the new Australian Government will review at an early date the present position of national broadcasting in Australia. During the recent campaign Mr. Scullin, when questioned on this matter, stated that the intentions of the Labour Party were fully explained in his policy speech made prior to the elections in November last. In that speech it was set out definitely that the Federal Labour Party considered that broadcasting activities in Australia should be under Government control. Tho Bruce-Page Government compromised on the issue by making the Post Office Department responsible for the actual operation of the “A” stations and placing a contract for the supply of programmes. One-third of the amount contributed by the licensed listeners is retained by the Post Office Department to defray the cost of running the stations and the building of a fund to construct central stations in Sydney and Melbourne, and. later in other capital cities, and also for the provision of 16 or 18 rday, stations in different parts of Australia. On the basis of 304,000 licensed listeners —the present number is in excess of that—the Post Office Department is retaining over £lOO,OOO a year for the runnig of the “A” stations. The British Broadcasting Company,' with its chain of stations, has been able to construct the best broadcasting stations in the world and make ample provision for maintenance, management and depreciation on a basis of 25 per cent, of the listeners’ licenses, whereas in Australia the Post Office Department is retaining S 3 per cent. The Post Office Department, on this system, will have a large amount to credit at the end of this financial year. Up to the present only two contracts have been let for tho supply of plant for relay stations, and both these were placed outside Australia. Different suggestions have been put forward by those interested for the solution of the present difficulties, and for the provision of better programmes, over extended hours. The belief is that the Government will order a reconsideration of the whole matter of broadcasting, in Australia, with a view to stricter Government control, and the possibility of the setting up a special department for the control of broadcasting in Australia on the lines of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Meanwhile, it is anticipated that there will be a hastening of the provision of the promised relay stations and a determination of the attitude to be adopted toward the commercial “B” stations. In Sydney there f.re at least ten firms awaiting permission to open “B” stations and provide firstclass programmes, but the Post Office Department has declined to issue licenses for that purpose. The invariable answer to these requests is that “the whole position' in regard to ‘B’ broadcasting stations is now under consideration by tho officials of the Post Office Department.”

PRECURSOR OF MARCONI. b MESSAGES IN 1565. While Marconi is generally credited with being the inventor of wireless telegraphy, the first radio messages were sent during the Civil War, stated Mr. C. Francis Jenkins, the best-know American authority on television, in a reeent interview. “Although Professor Joseph Henry, in 1832, discovered that electrical oscillations could be detected a considerable distance from the oscillator, it remained for a Washington dentist, Dr. Mahlon Loomis, to actually send the first radio messages,” said Mr. Jenkins. “In 1865 he built an oscillating circuit and connected it to a wire aerial supported by a kite. One station was set up on Bear Den Mountain, Virginia, not very - far from Washington, and a duplicate station was set up on top of. Catoctin Spur, 15 miles distant. “Messages were sent alternately from one station to the other by dot and dash interruption of a buzzer spark circuit. 'Reception was attained by deflecting a galvanometer needle at the receiving ; point. “In 1869 a bill was introduced in Congress to incorporate the Loomis Aerial ; Telegraphy Company. Nobody would buy the stock and it remained for others, years later, to reap the reward of radio broadcasting.” WIRELESS PROGRAMMES NEW ZEALAND STATIONS. 2YB, New Plymouth.—6.3o, children’s (session, conducted by Aunt Rene; 7.30, sports, news and information session. IYA Auckland. —3 pan., afternoon session, selected studio items; 4, literary selection; 4.8, studio items; 4.25, sports results to hand; 5, children’s session; 6, dinner session, Columbia Hour; IDcbroy Somers’ Band; choral, Don CosBacks’ Choir; 6.30, organ, Terence Casey; Band of.the Royal Air Force; pianoforte duct, Jean Wiener and Clement Doucat; Albert Sandler’s Orchestra; Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra; Band of iH.M. Grenadier Guards; 7, news and market reports, sports results; 8, chimes; concert by the Auckland Municipal Band; 10,. Columbia programme from studio; Hawaiian, Kannehameha Glee Club; one-step, fox trots; soprano, Marie Burke; waltzes and fox -trots; 10.48, tenor, Pete Woolesy; fox trots; 11, dose down. ■2 YA Wellington.—3 p.m., chimes; 4.30 and 4.50, sports results to hand; 3.1, selected gramophone items; 5, children’s session; 6, dinner session, Columbia Hour; Court Symphony Orchestra; Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra; 6.30, Albert Sandler’s Orchestra;. Marimba Scranadors; pianoforte, Gil Doch; Royal ’Serbian Tambouritza Orchestra; inter- , mezzo, Kctelby’s Orchestra; Rio Marim- ; ba Serenades; cinema organ, G. T. ' Pattman; march, Bande de la Garde ; Rcpublicaine de France; 7, news session, < market reports.and sports results; 7.40. , T Co*"—' ’

the Wellington Operatic and Theatrical Society in '“Our Miss Gibbs”; overture, 2YA Salon Orchestra; opening chorus, the company; solo, Mr. Bay Kemp; chorus of bridesmaids, “We’re the Dear Little Ladies Selected”; solo and chorus, Miss Edna Mears and company; solo, Miss Pauline Shotlander; Chorus of Dudes, “Correct”; solo and chorus, Miss Joyce Woodward and Dudes; solo and chorus, Mr. R. E. Pope and company; vocal duet,-Miss Joyce Woodward and Mr. Will McKeon; vocal duet, Miss Joyce Woodward and Mr. R. E. Pope; finale, Act 1, company; weather report; entr'acte, Marek Weber’s Orchestra; opening chorus, the company; vocal trio, Three Irish Girls; vocal solo, Miss Joyce Woodward; sextet, Messrs Pope, Jameson, Stark, Wesney, Kemp and McKeon; solo and chorus, Pauline .Shotlander and company; vocal duet, Miss Joyce Woodward and Mr. Will McKeon; chorus, the company; solo and chorus, Miss Joyce .Woodward and company; finale, the company; 10 (approx.), Columbia dunce programme; vocal duet, Layton and Johnstone; fox trots; cinema organ; fox trots and waltzes; 10.45, sporting review; 11, close down. 3YA Christchurch.—3 p.m., afternoon session, selected studio items; 4.25, sports results to hand; 5, children’s session; 6, dinner session, His Master’s Voice Hour; Victor Salon Orchestra; Wurlitzer organ, Chas. W. Saxby; Salon Orchestra; Wurlitzer organ, Chas. Saxby; 6.30, Balalaika Orchestra; Athenian Mandolin Quartet; Balalaika Orchestra; Hawaiian guitars; New. Light Symphony Orchestra; selection, Savoy Orpheans; 7, news session; 7.30, sports results to hand; 8, chimes; 8.8. Wire-

less Symphony Orchestra; baritone, Mr. W. H. Inkster; ’cello, Mr. Harold Beck; “The Chatterboxes” in twenty minutes of mirth and melody; 8.37, Christchurch Broadcasting Trio; mezzo-soprano, Miss Nellie Billcliff; Hawaiian; Scottish’comedian, Mr. Bracey Wilson; 9.1, weather report; selection, Debroy Somers’ Band; baritone, Mr. W. H. Inkster; ’cello, Mr. Harold Beck; ‘'The Chatterboxes” in ’• twenty minutes of mirth and melody; Christchurch Broadcasting Trio; mezzpsoprano, Miss Nellie Billcliff; Debroy Somers’ Band; Scottish comedian, Mr. Bracey Wilson; 10.2, His Master’s Voice dance programme; male quartette, The Revellers; fox trots; 10.33, organ, Jesse Crawford; fox trots and waltz; male quartet, The Revellers; fox trots; 11, close down. 4YA Dunedin.—3 p.m., chimes;, 3.1, selected gramophone items; 4.25, sports results to hand; 5, chimes; 6, dinner session, Parlophone Hour;' Hawaiian, David Kaili; cinema organ, Leslie Harvey; waltz, Dajos Bela Orchestra; saxophone, Arnold Brilhart; 6.30, waltz, Dajos Bela Orchestra; piano and orchestra, Raie da Costa and Orchestra; Dajos Bela Orchestra; selection Edith Lorand Orchestra; waltz, Dajos Bela Orchestra; 7, news session; 8, relay of 3YA Christchurch (vaudeville programme); 10, His Master's Voice dance programme; .10.15, comedian, Frank Crummit; fox trots and waltz; 10.30, humorous duet, Dora Maughan and Walter Fehl; foxtrots and waltz; tenor, Frank•lyn Baur; fox trot and waltzes; 11, close down.

TO-MORROW’S PROGRAMME. 1 $ 2YB, New Plymouth. —6 p.m., ehildren’s Sunday service, conducted by o Uncle David; 8.15, concert programme from the studio; orchestral selection, “The Marriage of Figaro; song, Mrs. F. C. Ferry; violin solo, “Rondino”; vocal trio, Mesdames S. O. Jones, J. C. Harris' and Miss Mayvis Rustling; pianoforte solo, Miss Gwen Greenwood; tenor solo, Mr. F. Glelland; song, Mrs. W. Gi Shaw; orchestral overture, “Raymond”; song, Miss E. Parrott; baritone solo, Mr. Basil Hirst; violin solo; song. Mrs. C. J. Harris; tenor solo, Mr. W. Papakura; s soprano, Mrs. F. C. Ferry; vocal trio, > Mesdames S. O. Jongs, J. C. Harris and . Miss May via Rustling; pianoforte solo, Miss Gwen Greenwood; soprano solo, Mrs. S. O. Jones; ’cello solo; tenor solo, Mr. F. Clelland; soprano solo, Miss E. Perrott; orchestral selection; baritone solo, Mr. Basil Hirst; contralto solo, Mrs. W. G. Shaw; band selection. IYA Auckland.—3 p.m., afternoon session, selected studio i'tems; 4, literary selection; 4.8, studio items; 6, children’s session; 6.55, relay of service from Beresford Street Congregational Church, Preacher, Rev. L. B. Fletcher; 8.39 (approx.), studio concert; Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; soprano. Miss Laura Walker; recital, Mr. Joe Clark; violin, Peggy Cochrane; baritone, Mr, Walter Brough; organ, Berkeley Mason;' soprano, Miss Laura Walker; Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; recital, Mr. Joo Clark* pianoforte, Maurice Cole and Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; baritone, Mr. Walter Brough; Band of H.M. Welsh Guards; 9.30, close down. 2YA Wellington.—3 p.m.,’ afternoon session, selected studio items; 6, children’s song service; 7, relay of service from Vivian Street Church of Christ; 8.15 (approxi), studio concert by the Port Nicholson Silver Band; hymn, the band; overture, band; soprano, Miss Isabel Cooper; Lener String Quartet; contralto, Miss Edith Buckmaster; cornet solo with band.'' accompaniment,

Harry Matthew; selection, band; weather report; soprano, Miss Isabel Cooper; euphonium solo with band accompaniment, Bandsman A. Kaye; contralto, Miss Edith Buckmaster; intermezzo, band; baritone, Mr. Harry Matthew; Don Cossacks’ Choir; march, band; close down. 3YA Christchurch.—3 p.m., afternoon session, selected studio items; 5.30, children’s song service;' 6.15, hymn tunes from studio; 6.30, studio concert; organ, G. T. Pattman; violin, Miss Mary Martin; chorus, Grand Opera Chorus; violin, Miss Mary Martin; chorus, Chauve Souris Company; 7, relay from Knox Presbyterian Church; . 8.15' (approx.), studio concert; Christchurch String Quartet; Columbia Symphony Orchesi-a; boy soprano, Trevor Schofield; Christchurch String Quartet; tenor, Herbert Brown; grand organ, Francis Sutton; duet and chorus, Marise Beaujou, M. Bordon and chorus; Christchurch String Quartet; 9.14, chorus with orchestra, La Scala Chorus; Lucerne Kursaal Orchestra; 9.30, close down. 4YA Dunedin.—3 p.m., chimes; 3.1, selected gramophone items: 5.30, children’s song service; 6.30, relay of service from St. Andrew’s Street Church of Christ; 7.55, weather report; 8.5, relay from St. Kiida Band Rotunda of concert by the St. Kiida Band; 9.15, close down.