WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 2

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES All YA Stations. —Daventry news: 6 a.m., 7, 8,20, 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.). —8.30 a.m.: Correspondence School educational session. 10.50: Talk by Nelle Scanlan. 3.35 p.m.: Classical music. 4.30: Light music. 7.30: Talk by Miss M. I. Turnbull, " Pliny the Younger and the Age of Trajan." 3: Concert by the St. Kilda Band (conductor, L. Francis), with recorded interludes by the Star Serenaders, John Tilley (humour), and Alfred Piccaver (tenor). 9.10: Ringside commentary on professional wrestlin" match, McCready v. Katan. 10 (approx.): "Music, Mirth, and Melody." 4YO, Dunedin (1140 k.c). 8 p.m.: Sonata hour. 9: Chamber music. 10: Larry Adler : (mouth-oi'gan). Richard Crooks (tenor), and De Groots Orchestra. 4YZ, Invercargill (680 k.c.).—8.30 a.m.: Correspondence School educational session. 5.15 p.m.: Light entertainment. 6.30: "The Adventures of Marco Polo." 6.45: Tuneful melodies in rhylhm. 8: Talk, " Poims on Linen Flax Production." 8.15: "Listeners' Own." 9.5: Quintet in F minor (Brahms). 9.45: Lotte Lehmann, soprano. 9.51: Piano Trio in C minor (Brahms). 3YA, Christchurch (720 k.c.).—3.30 a.m,: Correspondence School educational session. 11: Talk bv Nelle Scanlan. 11.15: Fashion talk by Ethel Early. 3 p.m.: Classical music. 7.20: Talk, "Personalities an 3 Places in the News " 7.35: Talk. " Furthsr Aids to Industrial Efficiency." 8: Berlin State Opera House Orchestra. 8.9: " Silas Marner." 8.22: Victor Olof Salon Orchestra. 8.30: Studio recital by Cecily Audibert. soprano. 8.41: Mark Hambourg, pianist. 8.45: "The Euccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture." 9.10: "The Shadow of the Swastika." 9.54 The Symphony Orchestra. 10: Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights. 2YA, Wellington (570 k.c.). —8.30 a.m.: Correspondence School educational session. 10.45: Talk by Nelle Scanlan. 11.30: Talk. " First Aid Questions and Answers." 2 p.m.: Classical hour. 7.40: Talk by motoring expert. 8: Studio concert by the N.B.S. String Orchestra (conductor, Maurice Clare; solo pianist, Hilda Cohn). 9.10: Concert bv the Wellington Apollo Sinsers (conductor H. T. White; soloist. C. A. Williams, tenor). Assisting artists: Warwick Keen (boy soprano) and the Salon Trio. 10: " Music, Mirth, and Melody."

IYA. Auckland (650 k.c.). —8.30 a.m.: Correspondence School educational session. 11: Talk by Nelle Scanlan. 1.30 p.m.: Educational session. 2.40: Classical hour. 3.35: Light music. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8: West End Celebrity Orchestra. 8.5: "One Good Deed a Day." 8.17: " Tha Great Churchill." 8.43: "Evergreens ot Jazz." 8.56: West End Celebrity Orchestra. 9.10: Dance music. Daventry.—War news will be broadcast from Daventry at the following New Zealand times:—s.3o a.m.. 8.20 a.m. (summary) 915 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 : VL.R. Melbourne, 8.30 p.m., 31,32 m. (9.58 rn.c). WPIT, Pittsburg, 4.15 p.m., 25.27 m. (11.87m.c). WGEA, Schenectady, 2.30 p.m., 31.41 m (9.55m.c.>. WRCA, New York, 5.30 p.m., 31.02 m. (9.66m.c.). WBOS, New York, 5.30—6 p.m., 31.36 m. (9.57m.c). KGEI. San Francisco, 5.30 p.m., 11.55 p.m., 31.48 m. (9.53m.c.). RADIO SAIGON, 10.15 p.m., 25.46 m. (11.79m.c).