ON THE AIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 165, 3 October 1927, Page 14

ON THE AIR

New Zealand broadcasting: stations transmit as follows: TODAY IIYA Auckland: 333 metres, 500 watts. Silent Day. * * * 2YA Wellington: 420 metres, 5,000 watts. 3 p.m., Gramophone recital; 7.0, news and market reports; B.o,studio orchestra tenor, Mr. S. Duncan, “A Spirit Flower’' pianoforte, Miss Medley, “Introductior Allegro-Adagio”; soprano, Mrs. Nelson "Hush, Dolly”; Signor Lucien Cesaroni "Mephisto’s Serenade”; ’cello. Miss Barton, “Sonata”; tenor, Mr. S. Duncan “Loughreema”; soprano, Mrs. L. Nelson “Serenade”; 9.0, weather forecast; 9.1 lecturette, Lieutenant Gordon Burt “Arctic Exploration”; studio orchestra bass, Signor Cesaroni, “Through the Day”; pianoforte, Miss Medley, “Capriccio Brilliant”; soprano. Mrs. L. Nelson, “Twilight’s Hour”; 'cello, Miss Barton “Andantio”; bass, Signor Cesaroni, “Th€ Volga Boatmen.” • * ♦ 3YA Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 watts. 3 p.m., afternoon session; 6.0, children’s session, by Uncle Jack; 7.10, news and reports; 8.0. band. “Stars and Stripes Eorever”; soprano, Miss Cox, “My Mary Sweet and Brown”; band, “Our Soldiers” and “Summer Night”; 8.30, talk Captain Findlay, “Brief Outline of tin History of Flying”; 8.45, band, “Jolly Cop persmith” ; recitation, Mr. Curson, “Devi May Care”; band, “Happy- Days ii Dixie”; 9.0, relay Strand Theatre; 9.20 band. “The Wildflower”; soprano, Mis: Cox, “Unless I Know”; band, “Anvi Chorus”; mezzo-contralto, Miss Hawker “You’ll Never Grow Old.” ** * * 4YA Dunedin: 463 metres, 250 watts. Silent Day. •- • • TO-MORROW IYA Auckland: 333 metres, 500 watts. 3 to 4.30 a.m., afternoon session;, 6.30 children’s session, Aunt Betty; 7-15 t< 7.45, news and information; 8.1, rela-< from Majestic Theatre; 8.10, Orpheul Quartet. “Oft in the Stilly Night”; bass Mr. Black, “Mountains of Mourne”; duet “Eileen Allanah”; cornet, Mr. Bowes “Come Back to Erin”; soprano, Mis: Bentley, “Believe Me if All Those En dearing Young Charms”; tenor, Mr Simpson, “Macushla”; contralto, Mis: Smith, “Hills of Donegal”; duet, Misa Bentley and Mr. Black, “The Last Ros< oi Summer”; 9.0, weather report; cornet Mr. Bowes, “The Harp that Once”; tenor Mr. Simpson, “The Minstrel Boy”; quartet, “The Angels’ Whisper”; bass, Mr Black, “Molly Bawn”; contralto, Miss Smith, “Danny Boy”; soprano, Miss Bentley, “Killarney”; duet, “Mothei Machree.” * * * 2YA Wellington:420 metres; 5,000 watts. & 3 p.m., Afternoon concert; 7 p.m., News and market reports; 7.35, lecturette, Mr N. R. Jacobsen, “Light and Colour”; i p.m., studio orchestra; 8.11, Orpheus Quartet, “Pageant of Summer”; humour, Mr. Stark, “Sob Stuff”; contralto, Miss Mackie, “Crabbed Age and Youth”; pianoforte, Miss Wing, “Poco a Poco”; duet “Hunting Song”; soprano, Mrs. Harris “The Waltz Soner”; 9 p.m., lecturette, Mr. H. C. South, ‘Tiooks, Wise and Otherwise”; 9.10, duet, “Calm, Silent Night”; baritone, Mr. Barnes, “The Midnight Review”; humorous, Mr. Stark, “I Forget”; tenor, Mr. Coe, “Evening Song”; Orpheus Quartet, “In Merrie England”; humorous, “All’s Well”; Orpheus Quartet, “Flora’s Holiday.”

• 3YA Christchurch:—» 306 metres; 500 watts. Silent day. 4YA Dunedin: 463 metres; 250 watts. 3 to 4.30 p.m., afternoon concert; 7.1, children's session, Big Brother Bill; 7.40, news and market reports; S p.m., studio concert of popular songs of recent years. ACROSS THE TASMAN Australian broadcasting stations transmit as follows: TO-DAY 2BL Sydney: 353 metres; 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., talks to children by “Hollo Man”; news; 9.30 p.m., selections by Haymarket Operatic Orchestra; studio concert, including orchestral; vocal and instrumental items; dance music by Wentworth Symphonic Dance Orchestra. 2FC Sydney: 442 metres; 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., children’s session; 8.30 p.m., news; 9.30 p.m., studio concert, including items, by Broadcasters’ Topical Chorus; ! and a relay of Ces. Morison and his ‘ Gloomchasers’ Jazz Band. • ’ 3LO, . Melbourne: [ 371 metres; 5,000 watts 1 7 p.m., talks to children by “Little . Miss Kookaburra”; 8 p.m., news; 8.45 5 p.m., Boy Scouts’ lecture; 9.15 p.m., AgriI cultural Department's lecture; 9.30 p.m., > studio presentation of “The Merry Widow”; dance music by Joe Aronson and his Synco-S-ymphonists. 4QG, • Brisbane: .385 metres; 5,000 watts 8 p.m;, children's session, talks by “The Sandman”; 8.30 p.m., news; 9.30 p.m. relay from S.t, John’s Cathedral of organ recital;’lo p.m., relay of recital by Brisbane Eisteddfod Choir; vocal and instrumental items. > NOTES \ The English short-wave station, 2NM, was: to have J>een on the air vesterday ’ afternoon’at 5.'30 p.m. New Zealand time, ’ and was to have been relayed by the \ Sydney station, 2BL. A Deycjnport listener states that he received a broadcast on about 33 metres from 5.40' p.m. onwards, \ but the transmission was so erratic that , he was unable to catch any of the an- . nouncements made although he was able to hear the announcer’s voice.. At 5.40 p.m. there . was an orchestral- item followed.at 5.45 by a speech. There followed a period of fading until at 5.55 another , speech was heard. A baritone solo at 6.15 was followed by a soprano solo at 6.20. For the next five minutes the programme was unrecognisable owing to bad fading and swinging. After another solo a bad whistle commenced and static also increased. At 6.30 p.m., a woman was singing, but soon the transmission became too faint to distinguish. It is believed that this was from 2NM. Ailv i reports of reception of this broadcast will be welcome. When 2BL was tuned in ; shortly before six o’clock' amid the squeals of several hundred oscillating valves, a church service was being put i on the air. Evidently thte reception in Australia was not sufficiently good to warrant ’re-broadcasting. The • re-broadcast of 2YA, Wellington, on Saturday by IYA, was excellent. The roars of the crowd and the referee’s whistle could be heard distinctly. During the second half the relay line, which is two miles long, was giving trouble, but on the Whole the relay was excellent. It is hoped that the description of the match between Possibles arid Probables will be broadcast on Wednesday.