Listen In!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19866, 14 June 1927, Page 10

Listen In!

V NOTES AND PROGRAMMES «

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The Australian stations, 2BL and 2FC, comes through at nearly twice the volume of 3YA and IYA. Licenses in Queensland total 21 r 25 0? of which 17,000 are in the metropolitan area. Last year 4QG, Brisbane, had to pay £2,070 in patent and copyright fees. During ten* months of the present year £5,042 had been paid. Afiss Dulce Joseph, a young and talented New Zealand soprano, has recently been engaged by 3AR, Melbourne. Another talk on South Africa is promised by Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P., who will be at the microphone at 3YA on Thursday evening at 9 o’clock. This time Mr. Howard will take for his subject the diamond mines. Cornet solos to be rendered by Mr. Frank Hume at IYA to-morrow night, will include “The Rosary” and “Somewhere a Voice is Calling.’’ 7ZL, Hobart, was one of the .most pleasing stations listened to during the week-end. This station was not troubled with the interference that prevailed on the others lower in wavelength. Good programmes combined with very fair reception made things worth while. It is about time the Government made a move in the direction of eliminating the Morse fiend. On Friday evening an overseas vessel anchored off Castlecliff made listening-in unbearable. It did not make any difference where your dials were set —in it came completely drowning music or speech. Unsettled weather conditions had their effect on reception on Sunday evening. Static was about early in the evening, but cleared away to a certain extent during the Aussies’ concert sessions. On Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m., at 3YA, an address on “Farm Forestry” will be given. by Mr. C. E. Foweraker, lecturer on forestry at Canterbury College. This is one of a series of addresses arranged by the Canterbury Progress League. The placing of the new 2YA on 4YA’s old wave-lengtth is simply looking for trouble. If the Wellington station is going to be as powerful as we are led to believe, what will be heard of stations 25 metres each side of it? 3YA contributed a very good programme on Saturday night, the steel guitar items by Miss Elaine Afoody and pupils, and the dance music from the Caledonian Hall, being a feature. Here it is! The only set in the world which gives perfectly natural reproduction—The New Gilfillan. A real musical instrument. ’Tis a set to be proud of. Call at our “Sound Box.’’ See and hear the world’s latest. Emmett’s, Radio Specialists, Selwyn Buildings, Victoria Avenue. You are always welcome at the “Sound Box.”* Afiss Maynard Hall, who spent two and a-half years in Hollywood studios, is to give a series of talks at 3YA. T?;o first will take place to-morrow evening. Reminiscences of life in the nu.-zing picture metropolis should be very interesting. A striking tribute to the value of wireless to people in out of way places, is conveyed in a letter to 3YA from a railway construction camp in the Bay of Plenty. The broadcast of the Richmond Wesleyan Church service is referred to and the writer says: “It is no exaggeration when I tell you that our party sat round the fireside in the hut with the light out and without speaking a word, just drinking in the sheer joy of the items and almost imagining that they were taking place just outside. I feel it to be a duty, as well as a pleasure, to express my appreciation. Aly loud speaker gives great pleasure, not only to myself, but to many other workers in the camp whose means of enjoyment are very limited. ’ ’

The first of a trio of travelogues on the North Island of New Zealand, was given by Dr. Brooke Nicholls on Saturday night, from the studio of 3LO, Alelbourne. At 11 o’clock on Friday night (New Zealand time), 2FC, Sydney, relayed a portion of the programme from 7ZL, Hobart. It was some time before this station came through at all clear; Morse, and considerable interference from the transmitters, marring good reception. “We had seventy on the lawn. Some came over 20 miles and got back in time for milking. It is quite a boon to farmers.” —An extract from a farmer’s letter appreciating the broadcast of a race meeting. Great interest is being aroused among listeners in the opening of the new Wellington station. There is general speculation as to how far it will be picked up, especially by crystal sets. Certain it is that 2YA will “shake up” the ether over a great area. It will be good news to the sporting fraternity to be informed that fieldevents are to be made a big feature on the programmes of the New Zealand stations. A striking departure can be expected in the near future. No matter “How Many Times” you feel “All Alone” wondering “What’ll fo do?” Remember “Always” that Emmett’s, Radio Specialists, Selwyn Buildings, Victoria Avenue, are demonstrating the latest Gilffllan Receiver. You will enjoy listening-in on a Giifillan.* How jolly to find when you’ve asked folks round, The joys of your set to be sharing; That the battery’s battered, The condenser’s condensed, And the aerial’s out for an airing.

The Assistant-Postmastcr-General, 'Viscount Woliner, stated in the House of Commons that the British Broadcasting Coorporation had been given authority to experiment with shortwave transmission. If it were found practicable to thus relay British programmes to the Dominions and colonies, it would be a matter for financial agreement between the Corporation and the Dominions and colonies. The following “bedtime story” comes from Sydney:—“Comfy” and Airs. “Comfy” (Belmore) listens to London, in bed:—“No doubt you have received numerous letters in reference to the wonderful result of 2BL’s rebroadcast of 2LO through PCJJ, but I would like to add my little testimony as to the reception. After reading your article in the Sydney Sun about the way your listeners faced the cold, I think my wife and I had a very much more comfortable enjoyment of the wonder. From the moment of the chimes of the G.P.O. at 1 a.m. until the finish of the programme we heard all that was available—but in bed—through our little crystal set, with an ear-piece under our pillow slip, and the reception was splendid. We have about 60 feet of flex fastened on our walls in two sections, and then about 20 feet of flex to ’phones.” Wireless has come to stay! Why deprive yourself og a concert in your own home every evening? Why go out these cold nights.when you can hear what the world is doing by your own fireside? See Whitehead and Stone, radio dealers, Dublin Street and at Aramoho, to whom you will be under no obligation for a demonstration.* In response to a request from Air. T. AfacMiilan, clerk of the Synod, Tanna. New Hebrides, 2BL on July 24will broadcast services from Chalmers Street Presbyterian Church. A special sermon will be preached by Rev. D. F. Brandt. June IS will be Radio Dance Night. Sydney, Atelbourne and Brisbane stations will co-operate on that night with transmissions of dance music, so that listeners who have loud speakers may arrange private dances and take up collections on bahlf of hospitals. Stations 2BL and 2FC will play dance music from 8 till 11.30, and 3LO from 10 till 11.30. The intervals between dances will be filled .with vocal items. Other stations who will co-operate are 2GB, 2KY, 2UW, 2UE, 4QG, and 3AR. A good radio joke is going the rounds at present. A local listener, keen on tuning out IYA and listening to Farmer’s, procured what he thought was a reliable wave trap. All his efforts with this adjunct failed. IYA camo in as distinctly on the 442 meters as it did on 420. Next day he returned

| the wave trap with most emphatic jcomment upon its uselessness. Only I then did he learn that while he was 'using it Farmer’s station was rc-broad-casting the transmission from IYA. i What next! 3LO, Melbourne, is to run a “laughter competition.” Candidates arc to be placed before the microphone, and cither implored or instructed to laugh. Whether tickling will be resorted to in producing the desired risibility is not stated, but listeners will be given the chance to • judge upon the most infectious of the I varied attempts at mirth. Presumably the laughing jackass will be debarred from competing. In Australia recently complaint has been made of the undue prominence given to sporting events on broadcast ing programmes. One of the best Australian stations counters this with the following illuminating figures:— “From October, 1925, to October, 1926. the studio broadcast for 3061 hours--293 hours were given to church services and 58 hours to racing and sporting.” Tho Christchurch Sun arranged a special ballot for 1 its radio readers recently for the purpose of ascertaining their choice of broadcast fare. The following was the result: —Band and orchestral entertainment, 486; instrumental items, 439; theatrical and | choral entertainment, 314; vocal solos. 293; lecturettes, 288; recitations, 279; church services, 266; sporting reports and descriptions, 191; news reports, 142.

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES IYA, Auckland. 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Afternoon concert. 6.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Children’s session—Aunt Betty. 7.15 p.m. to 7.45 p.m. News and reports, etc. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Chimes; relay of overture from Majestic Theatre orchestra, under the direction of Mr. F. Mumford; Soprano solos (a) “Kerry Dance,” (b) “My Hero,” from “The Chocolate Soldier” (Strauss), Miss D. Bayne; instrumental, latest song numbers, Rowe’s Novelty Five; vocal selections, “Ten Minutes of Nonsense.” | The Radionts; weather report and interval; relay from Majestic Theatre; soprano solo, “Waltz Song” from “Tom Jones,” Miss D. Bayne; vocal selections, “Odds and Ends,” The Radionts; jazz selections, “Song and Dance Numbers,” Novelty Five. 3YA, Christchurch. Silent day. 4YA, Dunedin. 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Afternoon concert; chimes; His Master’s Voice recital; address by Miss M. Puechegud on “Interior Decoration;” studio numbers; address by Mr. H. Greenwood, Librarian of the Dunedin Athenaeum on “Books;” His Master’s Voice recital. 7 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Children’s session —Aunt Diana. 7.30 p.m. to 7.45 p.m. News and reports; 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Relay from Trades Hall of Grand Concert, by leading Dunedin artists. 2YK, Wellington. Silent day.