ON THE AIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 8

ON THE AIR

New Zealand broadcasting stations transmit as follows: — TO-DAY IYA Auckland: 333 metres, 800 watts. 3 n.m , utternon session; 6 p.m., children's hour, Nod; 7.15 p.m., talk _ V. 1 . 1 . ••Motoring,” Mr. Geo. Campbell. 7...0 m news* 8 p.m., overture, “Die Meistersinger," Parts 1 and 2 (Wagner); vocal,Madame Mary Towsey s Quartet, The Lost Chord”; instrumental, Miss B ?*; -worth and Mr. C. Towsey, Sonata lor Piano and Violin—Finale (Grieg), baritone Mr. Bree, “Star of the Sou.h , reci-t-it ion Mr. T. Harris, “The Highwayman”: contralto, Miss G. Evans, “X Did Not Know”; instrumental and vocal, i he Internationals, (a) “Faust, (b) My of Heaven”; tenor, Mr. R. Newbuiy,, “Macushla”; soprano, Madame Towsey, “Se Saran Rose”; relay from Strand Theatre; Madame Towsey and Mr. Bree, “Love’s Beginning”; recitations, Mr. Harris, (a) “On the Stairs,” (b) “Alphonse instrumental trio, "Samson et Delila , contralto, Miss Evans, 4 The pecker”; Internationals, (a) “Charmaine, (b) "Hooray! It’s Ray, Ray, Raining,’ (c) "Mv Blue Heaven”; baritone, Mr. Bree, • Look Down. Dear Eyes”; vocal quartet, “Softly Fall the Shades of Evening.” 2VA Wellington: 420 metres, 5,000 watta. ?, p.m., gramophone items; 6_. p.m., children’s hour, Uncle Ernest; 7 p.m., news; 8 p.m., overture, “Stars and Stripes” (Sousa); vocal, Celeste Quartet, “Strike the Lyre”; Hawaiian duo, Berthold and Bent, (a) “Diane”; soprano, Miss Sawyer, “Down in the Forest”; instrumental, Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio, “Second and Third Movements, Trio in G” (Rubinstein); vocal. Miss Dyer and Mr. Swain, “I Did Not Know”; piano, Miss Bown, (a) “Polonaise in C Minor,” (b) “When It Rains”; bass, Mr. Boardman, “Up from Somerset”; cornet, Mr. Goodall, “Drink to Me Only”; sketch, Two Boiled Owls, “More Hoots”; lecture tte, editor-announcer, “Imperial Affairs”; Hawaiian duo, Bertliold and Bent, (a) “Caring for the Rose,” (b) “Novelty Medley”; contralto. Miss Dyer, “A Summer Night”; Studio Trio, (a) “Rosamunde Ballet Music,” (b) “Minuet”; vocal, Miss Sawyer and Mr. Boardman, “None So Pretty”; cornet, Mr. Goodall, (a) “Scenes that are Brightest,” (b) “Pilgrim of Love”; vocal and novelty piano number, Two Boiled Owls, (a) “Are You Happy?”, (b) “Breaking the Piano”; tenor, Mr. Swain, “In the Garden of To-morrow”; Celeste Quartet, “Early One Morning.”

SYA Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 watts. 3 p.m. afternoon concert; 6 p.m., children's hour, Big Brother Peterkin, and Aunt Pat; 7.15 p.m., news; vocal, Melodious Four, “Arcadians Are We”; soprano, Miss Hamerton, “The Pipes of Pan”; Instrumental Broadcasting Trio, “Trio, Andante and Presto” .(Reissiger); tenor and chorus, Mr. Sumner and Melodious Four, “Back Your Fancy”; humour, Mr. Moses, “The Trial of Wing Fat”, bass, Mr. Williams, “Fickle Fortune"; instrumental trios, (a) “Old Irish Air,” (b) “Poiacca”; Melodious Four, “The Joy of Life”; tenor, Mr. Sumner, “I Like London”; Beresford Banjo Band, (a) “Minstrel Melodies,” (b) “Fun and Frolic”; contralto, Miss Renaut, “Bring Me a Rose”; humour, Mr. Moses (a) “The ih-ivate of the Buffs,” (b) “A Tamboroora”; banjo band, (a) “What Good Is Good Morning,” (b) “Minstrel Melodies”; Melodious Four, “To All and Each”; bass, Mr. Williams, “My Motter”; banjo band, (a) “Merry-go-Round,” (b) “Bonnie Scotland”; contralto, Miss Renaut, “Bring Me a Rose”; soprano, Miss Hamerton, “Light is My Heart”; Melodious Four, “All Down Piccadilly.” 4YA Dunedin: 463 metres, 250 watts. 3 p.m., studio concert: 6 p.m., children’s session, Aunt Sheila and Big Brother Bill; 7.15 p.m., news; 7.30 p.m., book review; S p.m., studio concert; 9.25 p.m., dance music. TO-MORROW IYA Auckland: 333 metres, 500 watts. -•45 p.m., Description of Rugby football from Eden Park; 6.0, children’s hour —Cinderella; 7.15, news; 8.0, relay from Rialto Theatre; vocal, Lyric Four, (a) “A Sailor’s Chorus,” (b) “Lovely Night”; tenor, Mr. Richards, “My Dreams”; vocal, Bohemian Trio, (a) “Since X Found You,” (b) "High, High Up in the Hills”; humour, Mr. McElwain; bass, Mr. Thomas, “Myself When Young”; relay from Rialto Theatre; vocal, Lyric Four. “But She Didn’t!”; vocal, Messrs. Thomas and Richards, “Watchman, What of the Night?”; tenor, Mr. Ripley, “Molly, Dear”; Bohemian Trio, (a) “Yesterday,” (b) ‘‘Annabelle Lee’: vocal. Lyric Four, “Plantation Melodies”; 9.22, relay from Dixieland Cabaret. * • • 2YA Wellington:—420 metres, 5,000 watts. 11.30 a.m.. Description of Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting at Hutt Park; 3 p.m., description of Rugby football at Athletic Park; 6.0, Children’s hour; 7.0, news; 7.40, lecturette, Miss Bates, “Yale Bl'iies”; 8.0, Overture, “Charterhouse March” (Moore); vocal, Melodie Four. “The Trumpeter”; banjo, Mr. Brazier. “Side by Side”; tenor, Mr. Duncan, “I’ll "Sing Thee Songs of Araby”; instrumental. Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio, “Finale from Trio No. 3” (Reissiger); bass, Mr. Marshall, “I Go to Claim My Love”: xylophone, Mr. Lovell. “The Whistler and His Dog”; Melodie Four, “Blue Skies”: banjo, Mr. Brazier, “Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away”; tenor, Mr. Bryant, "Linden Lea”; Studio Trio, (a) “Minuet,” (b) “Serenade,” (c> “Rondo”; baritone, Mr. Allwright, “Rolling Down to Rio”; xylophone, Mr. Lovell, (a) “I Love the Moon,” (b) “Falling”; Melodie Four, “Comrades in Arms”; 9.13, relay from Columbian Cabaret.

ACROSS THF. TASMAN TO-DAY Australian broadcasting stations transmit as follow:2BL Sydney: 353 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., children’s session; 8 p.m., country session and news service; 9.30, concert programme, including items by Broadcasters’ Topical Chorus, studio concert of vocal and Instrumental items; dance music. 2FC Sydney: 442 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., children’s session. Hello Man; 8 p.m., dinner music; 8.30, news: 9.30, studio concert and dance music. 3LO Melbourne: 371 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.30 p.m., children’s session: talks on “Wheat Culture” (9), and •Technicalities” (9.30); items by the Collingwood Citizens’ Band, Mr. James (baritone), Mr. Maokay (soprano), Mr. Monteath (organ), the Gipsy Players, Mr. Sage (baritone). Miss Fortune (soprano), and the Vagabonds (dance music). 4QG Brisbane: 385 metres, 6,000 watts. 7.30 p.m., news; 7.45, dinner music; I 8, children’s session; 9.30, dance programme by Alf Featherstone and his Studio Syncopators. NOTES The Sydney short-wave station, 2ME, was on the air yesterday morning with a special programme for London. The transmission was received better than that of the afternoon before, but was not as good as at Christmas. 2ME is on 28.5 metres. Station PCJJ broadcasts every Tues- ! Say and Thursday. The transmissions i fre heard here from 2.30 to 6.30 on Wed- ! nesday and Friday mornings.