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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 March 1927, Page 4

The New Zealand broadcasting stations transmit as follows—--IYA (AUCKLAND), 420 metres, 500 watts. There will be no transmission this evening. 3YA (CHRISTCHURCH), 400 metres, 500 watts. This evening’s programem is as follows: 3 to 4.30 p.m., afternoon concert; 7.15 to 7.45 p.m., news and reports, etc.; 8 to 10 p.m., chimes, studio concert by the First Canterbury Regimental Band, under the direction of Lieutenant Hoskins; assisting artists, baritone solos, selected, Mr. Ewart Smith; contralto solos a) "Habenera” (Carmen-Bizet), Miss Phyllis Leighton, (b) “Love’s Springtime” (Cowan); tenor solos (a) “When Song is Sweet,” (b) “Love is Mine,” Mr. P. MacDonald, (c) “Life and Death” (Coleridge Taylor); vocal duets (a) “Allah Be With Us,” Madame Leighton and Miss (Woodford© Finden), Madame Leighton and Miss Phyllis Leighton, (b) selected. At 9.5 p.m. the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, Prime Minister, will give an address. 4YA (DUNEDIN), 380 metres, 750 watts. There will be no transmission this evening. 2YK (WELLINGTON), 295 metres, 120 watts. This evening’s programme is as follows— -3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Afternoon concert and relays of dance selections by Manuel Hyman’s Exhibition Band from the New Adelphi Cabaret. 7.45 p.m. to 10 p.m. Reports and announcements. Studio concert arranged by Miss Vera Boesley. Relay of dance selections by Manuel Hyman’s Exhibition Band from the New Adelphi Cabaret. Notes Atmospheric conditions were good over the week-end and consistent reception was enjoyed generally. The Australian stations came in well and the jtf.Z. stations fair. Broadcasting in Holland • Interesting developments in broadcasting are contemplated in Holland. It is proposed to use the telephone service to carry the broadcast programmes into every home that has the telephone. An ingenious device has been perfected, by which, when a telephone is left off the hook, the programmes .come through with loud-speaker strength, and are cut off automatically whenever anyone calls that particular number. By this means the telephone service is not interfered with. It is doubtful how this system would work here, when the matter of license fees has to be considered. The Post-master-General might have to make a flat rate for broadcasting, in addition to that now collected for the use of the telephone itself. Subscribers might loathe music with heart-felt hatred, but would still have to pay for the privilege of listening to it, since there would be no way of finding out whether he was stealing the service or not. On the whole, one is inclined to think that telephone broadcasting would create more problems than it would solve. It is difficult to better the system under which Australian and New Zealand stations are working. Across the Atlantic Baby Mary Harkness Campbell is the first child to be heard through the wireless telephone from Atlantic City to Birmingham, England. A few weeks ago Mrs. Campbell, of Atlantic City, was able, for the first time in five years, to have a chat with her brother, Mr. Harkness, who is connected with the British General Post Office, stationed at Birmingham. Mr. Harkness had never heard the voice of his baby niece. When he asked over the phone how the baby was its mother held her up to the receiver and coaxed her to gurgle and laugh. Mr. Harkness said that he heard the child as plainly as if she had been sitting beside him.

Mrs. Campbell, who is the wife of a Chelsea building contractor, has the honour to be the first person in Atlantic City—and, in fact, in South Jersev—to use the radio telephone service to England; and her baby, Mary, is the first child in the United States to send a message of any kind across the Atlantic.