Listens In!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 10

Listens In!

H NOTES AND PROGRAMMES

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Nearing the Half-Million. Listeners registered in Australia are now rapidly approaching the half-mil-lion. There was an increase of 6811 last month, bringing the total to 434,632. No Football Broadcasts. No broadcasting of football matches under its control is again 'rhe decree of the Canterbury Rugby Union. Half-Yearly License. From what can be gathered the right tor a half-year license is being freely availed of in Wanganui. The right was granted none too early. More Vocal Music Wanted. Most music-lovers would be grateful if the programme directors would put on more good vocal music. The character of the programmes would suggest that musical expression is almost exclusively confined to orchestras and bands. Why dinner sessions should be limited to orchestral music, excluding the countless fine vocal recordings available for the purpose, is a mystery to which only the genii of broadcasting hold the key. Community Sing. There was a bright entertainment from 2YA, Wellington, on Saturday evening last, when a concert in aid of radio equipment for the Wellington Hospital was put on the air. The Difference. The difference between IYA and 2YA is that 2YA can put on a good musical programme without spoiling it by sandwiching in alleged humour, and IYA apparently can’t, states an Auckland weekly. Service! Make use of our Radio Repair Service. Radio is our speciality, therefore bring your repairs to the firm who specialise in this work. All and any classes of seta repaired. Valves may be the cause of poor reception, so bring them in, and we will test them, free. — D. A. Morrison and Co.. Avenue.* i A Noticeable Difference. What a sharp contrast there was between Australia and New Zealand in Easter programmes. The difference on Good Friday was most noticeable—Australian stations featuring bright entertainment as well as religious services.

Anzac Day. All the New Zealand stations featured Anzac Day services on Tuesday, Ban No Deterrent. Another B station has been testing out in Christchurch. Evidently the ban upon the use of records is no deterrent to further private enterprise on the air. In contrast, an Auckland private station has gone off the air, but this is at the decree of the Post and Telegraph Department, which keeps ear-watch to see that regulations arc observed. To Increase Power. It is stated, that IZM, Manurcwa, intends to increase power to 500 watts—the present power of 1 fA—and to have its broadcasting studio in the city, the transmitter remaining on 'the present site. There is a proposal to co-operate with musical, operatic'and dramatic societies when the increased signal strength of the station is obtained. Radio “News Service.” Those good people who are forever bearing this news and that announced “over rhe radio” and seem to think that broadcasting stations arp? quicker than newspapers in gathering and giving news, may be interested in a dispatch from Sioux Palls, South Dakota, states, the Ottawa Journal. It tells of a judge signing a restraining order against a broadcasting company which had been using the news of the American Associated Press. The suit, the first of its kind on record, was a i test case to determine the legal right of a news gathering association ro prevent the unauthorised use of its dispatches by a broadcasting station. Many people appear to think that the radio has news of its own. It hasn’t. All the news that radio broadcasts hasbeen gathered by newspapers, is in newspaper offices or newspapers before the radio broadcasts it. In mbfit cases it is news given to the radio by the newspapers. Improving Your Set. A radio salesman was explaining to me the other day that the wireless season proper commences in the week following Easter. Apparently all over the country radio enthusiasts spend their three or four days' holiday in taking their sets to pieces; and when the shops reopen there is a rush for new valves and condensers and a multiplicity of new parts. Incidentally, the latest valves which have recently appeared on the market seem to give an added punch to an old set. If your set contain’s 27 s, 1 would suggest you try the replacing of them with the's6. There is no need for any circuit alterations, and I imagine that you will at otica notice a greater sensitivity and selectivity. I havo not taken my own set to pieces, as I possess only one, but I am seriously considering making « now radio-gramophone. Up to the last few months I held the opinion that my present outfit possessed as good tonal qualities as was possible to obtain, but since 1 have heard some of the newer sots with their two speakers I am filled with envy, and have commenced to think that perhaps 1 may be able to improve on my own set in a number of ways. In the first place,‘my present, set develops a slight hum when the gramophone motor is in action. It is not very noticeable, but nevertheless very disturbing on some of the higher voice notes. I think that this may be obviated by shielding the wiring to the motor and from the pick-up. Second, lam endeavouring secure a pick-up which possesses characteristics especially suited for fibre needles. These needles are, in my opinion, far superior to steel. They do not damage the record even after several hundred playings; they are inexpensive, as each needle can be used for an average of 25 12-inch discs; ami they give a more pure reproduction. On the other hand. Rome of the high notes tend to become a little obscured on the ordinary pick-up when used with fibre needles; and 1 am now searching the shops for one which will give better reproduction than my present component. ■ And finally, there is the question of | the loud speakers. This is rather a ] problem. I like to have a largo baffle for my speaker, and with two large baffles the resultant piece of furniture | will tend to become elephantine. And as one speaker will give a preponderance of high notes, and the other will emphasise the bass, it. docs not seem practicable to have one speaker at the front and the other at the back. I think I may be able to overcome this I problem by mounting my speakers in ihe form of a triangle, the two baffles forming two sides, and the third side being vertically placed in front of the i TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES Following are the programmes of AustraI tian and New Zealand stations scheduled for to-day. In the case of Australian stations Australian time is given in each instance, which is hours behind that of New Zealand:— IYA, AUCKLAND. (820 Kilocycles). 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: W.E.A. Session, Messrs. R. A. K. Mason and N. M. Richmond, B.A. 8.0: Recording. Berlin State Orchestra. 8.9: Choral, Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Choir. 8.18: Recording (piano), Mathilde and Jean Harding. Recording Norman Long. 8.24: Violin, Vincent Aspey. 8.35: Recording (soprano), Gladys Moncrieff. 8.44: Choral, The Choir. 8.52: Recording, Berlin State Opera Orchestra. 9.0: Weather forecast and notices. 9.2: Talk, Mr. James Wylie. 9.20: Recording, Regal Cinema Orchestra. 9.28: Choral, The Choir. 9.32: Recording (orchestra with Cinema Organ). 9.38: Violin, Vincent Aspey. 9.52: Choral. The Choir. 9.56: Recording, Edith Lorand Orchestra. 10.0: Close down. 2YA. WELLINGTON. (720 Kilocyclcsj. | 10.0: Selected recordings. 1C.30: Devotional service. 11.30: Lecturette. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Selected recordings. 3.30: Special weather report. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children’s Hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports (2YC. 1010 kilocycles, After Dinner Music). 7.30: W.E.A. session, C. A. Batt. 8.0: Concert by the Band of the First Battalion, Wellington Regiment (Conductor, Harry Baker) and 2YA artists. March, The Band. 8.5: Recording (humour), Tony Reddin. 8.11: Selection. The Band. 8.19: Organ, H. Temple White. 8.30: Recording (humour), Naughton and Gold. 8.33: Humorous fantasia, The Band. 8.40: Lecturette. E. W. Ackland. 9.0: Weather report and notices. 9.2: Waltz. The Band. 9.9: Contralto. Zoe Millar. 9.14: March, The Band. 9.19: Recording (choral). The Carl Rosa Opera Company. 9.27: Cornet, I

Bandsman W. Bowman. 9.30: Contralto, Zoe Millar. 9.36: Two violins and organ. Mr. and Mrs*. Eric Meier. 9.48: Foxtrot. The Band. lo.O: Close down. 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH. (980 Kilocycles;. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.35: Music Lovers’ Competition (sth. of series). 8.0: ■‘Modern” and ‘‘Old Time” Music (selected recordings). Part I—“Modern.’’ Philharmonic Orchestra, ’ erlin. 8.14: Tenor, Giorgini and members of the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. 8.18: Instrumental, Victor OlolE Sextet. 8.21: Baritone, John Brownlee. 8.24: Violin, Heifetz. 8.28: Mezzosoprano, with orchestra, Olga Haley. 8.32: Organ, Harry Goss Custard. 8.36: Baritone, Lawrence Tibbett. 8.40; Gustav Holst, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. 8.48: The Baraldi Trio. 8.51: ’Cello, Pablo Casals, Intermezzo. 8.55: Colombo and His Tzigane Orchestra. 9.1 : Weather forecast and notices. 9.3: Talk, Dr. G. M. Lester. Part 2 —“Old Time.” 9.18: Berlin State Opera House Orchestra. 9.34: Vocal duet, Amelita Galli Cure! and Tito Schipa. 9.37: Violin, Heifetz. 9.41: Contralto with Chorus and Orchestra. 9.44: 8.8. C. Wireless Singers. 9.47: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. 9.51: Baritone with Orchestra, Lawrence Tibbett. 9.54: London Male Voice Octet. 9.58: De Groot and His Orchestra. 10.2: Close down. 4YA. DUNEDIN, f 650 Kilocycles). 7.2: News and reports. 7.40: Talk, under auspices of the league of Nations. 8.0: Recording, The 8.8. C. Wireless Military Band. 8.4: Solo and chorus, The Minnesingers. 8.11: Selections, The de Rose Quintette. 8.18: Solo and chorus. The Minnesingers. 8.22: Piano recital, Helmuth Hoffman. 8.42: Contralto and chorus, Maude Ken ward and the Minnesingers. 8.49: Selection, The Quintette. 8.56: Solo and chorus, The Minnesingers. 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.2: Reserved. 9.15: Waltz, the Quintette. 9.19: Bass Baritone, L. H. Stubbs. 9.22: Selections, The Quintette. 9.27: Chorus, The Minnesingers, 9.30: Dance music. 11.0; Close 4QG, BRISBANE. (760 Kilocycles). 6 p.m.: Music; shipping news, etc. 6.15: Children's session. 6.45: Market and weather reports. 7.0: Studio music. 7.23: News service. 7.45: General sporting information. 7.59: Eastern Australian Standard Time Signals. 8.0: Studio programme. 10.15: Cable news (copyright) : Sun-Herald News Service Ltd., and Australian Press Association, weather; British Official Wireless News. 10,30: Dance music. 11.0: Close down. 2BL. SYDNEY. (353 Metres). 6.15: Dance music. 7.5: Country session. 7.20: Recorded music. 8.0: Studio conceit programme. 2FC, SYDNEY, (451 Metres). 5.45 p.m.: Children’s session. 6.45: The Recorded Music Session. 7.20: Sporting and news items. 8.0: Studio concert programme.