RADIO NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19374, 24 December 1932, Page 18

RADIO NOTES

' CN THu EBGAT: PAST BAUD.--Church rar-ice:; to V - robr/ed toTaler:• >; CYA. 3 f> a re. C•: d•■: v; 5 t;l:.’.’; 7 ?n ' 7 : ' ‘ ■' ""• '"7 3YA, •' • r St. Al* ", 0; i ~: : - A-. 10 of c:r' ; rA.7, 7.0, .... Paul's ProCathedral. Mr Forbes Emile Cl.co Fere Brace”), of Auckland. who ir> now broadcasting in Sydney her; .secured a contract to tell iiir. sc a stock" our one of the •minor American “chains;.” Ta-daw dr.d on every Saturday in future. 2YA will even at 10 a.m. 3YA will be on the air to-day at 11 a m. tor the Plunket Shield cricket match. At 11.53 to-night, the nvdniyht Maas -from St. Gera”'.: • ne-aemptorlrt Church. U-evvte: n. 7/: :': : Go, will be put on the air, and will continue until 1.10 a.m. Australian stations will be on the air until about 3 a.m. During the holidays, the YA stations will gi • at 10 o’clock.

The Empire “Christmas broadcast,” which is to be made at 2 a.rn. ch Monday (N.Z. time) will be “canned” and repeated at 9.20 p.m.. so that listeners need not stay out of bed to hear it.

Australian stations do not appear to be interested in the Z up ir e broadcasts.

There has been, a fair amount of local interference this week. The old roarer seems tp have been cleaned up, but a newcomer with a crackling note has been on the air at intervals for a month. 2FC ' will broadcast “The Messiah” again 3-night, lay from Melbourne. The featured artist will be d bv a choir of 303 and an orchestra of 75. 31:0 (relaying to 23L) will give a : • ie of the Victor -N.S.W. cricket match at 12.30 to-night and following nights. The Second Test descriptions will begin from the same station on Friday next.

One did not expect it from the EBC. Radio ad art! ng is supposed to be anathema in iCnc>and, but in the Empire programmes the mater’s name and the number of each record is announced.

2FC will broadcast “The Student Prince” on Tuesday night.

KFI will commence' a special Christm&s broadcast to-night at 8 o’clock, New Zealand summer time. Nola Luxford. who ■-a : leant in the Olympic Games broadcasts, will be programme director.

A running description of the Auckland Gup race' is to be relayed to all YA stations at 2 pen. cn 'Monday. 3YA will give sections pi play in the Aiick-land-Canterbury cricket, match, and 4YA will broadcast the running from the Wingatui races. •

“Radio listeners are not ‘up in arms’ against advertising on the air simply because it is advertisings They do resent advertising that is an insult to common intelligence.” says an' American wireless journal. That . applies with eoufl truth to Australia. ‘ -v * v e

Australian stations make a special feature of Christmas broadcasts. 4QG’s programme for to-night, is. typical: 6.50: Christmas Eve children’s, service. 7.45, Yule tide melodies. 3.4-3, “little Town; of Bethlehem,” by Canon Garland. 9.0, “Christmas Carol.’’ 10.45, special Christmas melodies by Tony Truda’s orchestra, supported by vocalists; Gresham Singers in Christmas Care's. : from Roman Catholic Cathedral. (This will conclude at 3.15 a.m. K.Z. time.) * * * -» One or two listeners report having picked up part of WCKY's special programme last Sunday .night, but the great majority were . unaware of the time according to New Zealand clocks. .The 8.8. C. is anxious that the. Dominions shall pry a share of the

cost of the Empire broadcasts. If memory serves, the amount suggested for New Zealand was £23.000 a year. AS entertainment the' service is not worth that many pea:c,’ though- listeners will welcome such features as the King’s Christmas speeph.

The Empire broadcasts are a washout. The programmes - are too highbrow ; the announcers are too hawhaw; and the tranrmh.sion is poor. If the New Zealand stations rebroadcast Daventr.y for a week cr two. lisie rors in the Dominion will learn to appreciate their own pr ' mes more than they have been doing. <

American radio .journals announce that trio Mexican meek station HER, a permit to step its output up to 500,000 watts, about three times as powerful as any-station in the world. That will blot out all the .competitive “medical” broadcasters, in the southern States.Captain Eckerslcy, an English radio engineer, spent a few hours in Auckland, and -then felt competent to give his views on broadcasting for the , Cr eery is an authority on the technical side of radio, but lie has a guid conseit of himser. When he was in Aus-tralia-—on -a trade errand —lie endoev- • cured to persuade- the Australian Government to adopt long-wave transmission. Ills advice was not accepted and when he get bask -to London, Co; tain Eekerslev mode this announcement: “I felt mV self a public bsnefac r. There wa MY END\ LEDGE, UNCHALLENGED IN EUROPE, put freely at their d sposal ”

is rnn.'cured in Anehirnd that the hy’ station. 171'. . will shortly be extending its hours oi broadcasting. If ■this is a very material increase, the station rriay o'ossibiy have .the longest- . hours cf any *si alien in the Dominion.