ON THE AIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 16

ON THE AIR

The New Zealand broadcasting stations tra.nsmit as follows: TO-DAY IYA, Auckland—--333 metres; 500 watts. 3 p.m., to 4.30 p.m., Afternoon session; 6.30 p.m., children’s session. Aunt Betty; 7.15 p.m., to 7.45 p.m., news and information session; 8 pm., relay from Majestic Theatre; 8.16 p.m., drawing-room entertainment by Mr. Peter Black and party; quartet, “Awake, Aeolian Lyre”; soprano, Miss Black, “I Hope”; flute, Miss Brame, “Shepherd’s Iydll”; duet, Mrs. Lewis and Mr. Farrow, “Calm,, Silent Night”; violin, Miss M. McMurtrie, “Irish Fantasie”; bass, Mr. J. Littler, “The Roamer”; quartet, “Prayer”; 9 pm., lecture by Mr. J. W. Hayden, chairman of Waitemata Power Board on “Progress of Development of Hydro-Electric Power in the Dominion”; weather report; 9.26 p.m., quartet. “The Cat and the Fiddle”; contralto, Mrs. Lewis, (a) “Down Here”; (b) “To a Miniature”; flute, Miss R. Brame. “11 Bacio”; Mr. P. Black, “Let’s Grow Old Together”; instrumental trios, (a) “Spring’s Awakening,” (b) “Serenade”;, tenor, Mr. W. Farrow, “I Hid My Love”; quartet, “In This Hour of Softened Splendour.” * * * 3YA Christchurch—--306 metres; 500 watts Silent Day. • * • 2YA, Wellington—--420 metres; 5,000 watts. 3 p.m., Afternoon concert; 7 p.m., news session and market reports; 7.338 p.m., lecturette, Mr. R. Jacobsen, “Oxygen: The Life Supporter”; 8 p.m., studio orchestra; soprano, Miss., Lowry, “Waltz”; The Aeolian Quartet, “In Silent Mead”; baritone, Mr. Wilkinson, “I Will Not Grieve”; piano and organ duet; contralto, Miss Penny. “Still as the Night”; cello, Miss Hill, “Guitarre”; tenor, Mr. Coe, “The English Rose”; Aeolian Quartet, “Lovely Night”; studio orchestra; soprano, Miss Lowry, “Youth and Spring”; baritone, Mr. Wilkinson, “Lend Me Your Aicl”; Aeolian Quartet, “Love’s Old Sweet Song”; 9 p.m., weather report; lecturette, Mr. Gordon Burt, “Inception of the British Arctic Expedition, 1925, New Zealander off to the Polar Regions”; studio orchestra; contralto. Miss Florence Penny, “From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water”; Aeolian Quartet; cello. Miss Hill, “Andante”; tenor, Mr. Coe, “Where’er You Walk”; bass, Mr. Hall, “Three for Jack”; Aeolian Quartet, “Medley”; studio or-

chestra; tenor, Mr. Mayall, “An Emblem”; baritone, Mr. Church, “I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby”; studio orchestra. 4YA, Dunedin: 463 metres, 250 watts. 3 p.m., Recital; 7 p.m., children’s session, Big Brother Bill; 7.30 p.m., news ancl market session; 8 p.m., studio concert and orchestral items, under the conductorship of Mr. L. D. Austin; relayed from the Octagon Theatre. • * * TO-MORROW IYA, Auckland.— 333 metres, 500 watts 3 p.m., to 4.30 p.m., Afternoon session; 7.15 p.m., to 7.45 p.m., news and information; 8 p.m., relay from Prince Edward Theatre; contralto, Miss R. Chellburg, (a) “Beloved, Sleep,” (b) “The Nightingale”; violin, Mr. N. Watson, “Orientale,” baritone, Mr. C. Williams, “The Floral Dance”; flute, Mr. V. Bedford, “Paraphrase”; soprano, Mr. C. Towsey, “With Thee is Peace”; piano, Mr. C. Towsey, “Holberg Suite”; 9 p.m., weather report; contralto, Miss R. Chellburg, “Yonder”; violin, Mr. N. Watson, “Ballet Music”; baritone, Mr. C. Williams, (a) “Stonecracker John,” (b) “For the Green” (Lohr); flute, ME. V. Bedford, “Song Without Words”; soprano, Mrs. C. Towsey, “O, Divine Redeemer” (Gounod); piano, Mr. C. Towsey, “Devotion” (Schumann); whistling solo, Mr. R. Bell, “Three O’clock in the Morning. 2YA Wellington.420 metres, 5,000 watts. Silent Day. * * • 3YA, Christchurch: 306 metres; 500 watts. • • • 3 p.m., Afternoon concert session; 6 p.m., children’s session, by Uncle Jack; 7.15 p.m.. Addington stock market reports; 7.30 p.m., news; 8 p.m., relay from Everybody’s Theatre; 8.15 p.m., Beckenham Quartet, (a) “An Evening Lullaby,” (b) “Little Tommy Went a Fishing”; euphonium, Mr. Hughes, “The Broken Melody”; mezzo-soprano, Mrs. Bull, “By the Waters of Minnetonka”; mezzosoprano, Miss Clarke, “Lullaby”; brass instrumental quartet, Woolston Band, “Lohengrin”; Beckenham Quartet; pianoforte, Miss Hayward, “Cappriccio in B Minor”; cornet, Mr. Creagh, “Peristyle Polka,”; 9 p.m., talk, Mr. Les Hayward,

“A Round Trip Thro’ the Southern Lakes and Mount Cook District”; euphonium, Mr. Hughes, ‘‘II Bacio”; mezzo-soprano, Mr. Bull, ‘‘Lament of Isis”; mezzo-so-prano, Miss Clarke, “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere”; Beckenham Quartet, (a) “Every Rustling Tree,” (b) “A Catastrophe”; Woolston*'Band Quartet, “Passing Clouds”; mezzo-soprano, Mrs. Bull, “The Lass With th€> Delicate Air.” * * • 4YA, Dunedin: 463 metres; 250 watts. Silent Day. ACROSS THE TASMAN Australian broadcasting stations transmit as follow: TO-DAY 2BL, Sydney: 353 metres; 5.000 watts. 7.15 p.m., clock and chimes; children’s session; 8, studio programme; 9 p.m., “Sun” news; 9.30 p.rn., studio concert, including items by Broadcasters’ Topical Chorus; an hour’s programme by Cossor Valves; Broadcasters’ Light Orchestra; Mr. Williams, baritone; Mr. Walenn, violinist, Miss Verona, soprano; Mr. J. M. Post, oboe solos; Professor Randal Woodhouse, tenor; Miss Ethel Friend, control to. 2FC Sydney: 442 metres; 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., Talks to children by “Hello Man”; 8.30 p.m., news; 9 p.m., talk on “Some Poets I Have Met.” by Professor BY*ereton, of Sydney University; 9.30 p.m., studio programme, including relay of concert of Australian compositions by British Musical Society; Win and Windle. entertainers; vocal, instrumental and dance music. * * * 3LO Melbourne: 371 metres; 5,000 watts. 7 p.m., Children’s session; 8 p.m., news; 8.45 p.m., talk on “Town Planning in America,” by Mr. Dixon; 9 p.m., lecture arranged by Department of Agriculture; 9.30 p.m., studio programme, including relay of first act of musical comedy, “Tip Toes”; studio recital from opera, “11 Trevatore,” assisted by studio orchesti'a and Auburn Methodist Church choir; vocal, instrumental and dance music. * * * 4QG Brisbane: 385 metres; 5,000 watts. 8 p.m., Children’s session; 9 p.m., news; 9.30 p.m., studio programme, including orchestral, vocal and instrumental items.

TO-MORROW 2BL Sydney: 353 metres; 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., Children’s session; 8.45 p.m., news; 9.30 p.m., studio programme, including items by Broadcasters’ Topical Chorus; selections by Canterbury District Band; Mr. Allen, elocutionist; The Leone Vocal Trio; Mr. McKenzie, violinist; Mr. Herberte, entertainer; Miss Sullivan, soprano; Broadcasters’ all-sports expert on “Boxing, Golf and Sporting News”; and a relay of Cec. Morrison and his Gloomchasers broadcast from the ballroom of the Bondi Casino. NOTES Local listeners state that the transmission from 2YA on Saturday last, which was rebroadcast by the Christchurch station, was distoi'ted at. times. 3YA on the contrary, was said to be beautifully clear, although, of course, it did not have the same volume. A Devon port listener reports than from 4.40 to 6.10 p.m., on Sunday he received a short-wave transmission on about 34

metres. -Morse cculd be heard on either std€! of the transmission and prevented the broadcast irora being heard ci-arlV Static was very bad. When first piciX air T as , 5 ? and „ sele ction on 12 tfV r Tl i- lasted for about tea minutes after which someone spoke for a short time. Then a baritone solo wi« brS3 cast. Swinging, which had been verr bad at the commencement of toe trummission, had now stopped. Another short talk was followed by an instrumental selection, near the end of which swine mg recommenced and became so bad that the station could not be held Ir is supposed that this was the shortwave station 2h'M broadcastine from Caterham. Any other reports of reception of this transmission will be welcomed.