HIGHLIGHTS ON THE SHORTWAVE BAND

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 20

HIGHLIGHTS ON THE SHORTWAVE BAND

The Armed Forces Radio Service

HE--Armed Forces Radio Service which is being heard at quite good strength throughout the afternoon and evening featurés a variety of programmes by well-known bards and famous Hollywood personalities. The news may be heard on the hour, every hour, and any changes in the programmes will be announced during the U.N. Conference period at 8.05 p.m. each night. Stations, Frequencies, Wavelengths and Times of Transmission:

. Headlines in the) Programmes; 1.30 -2.0 p.m.: Frank Morgan, Sunday; Hollywood Music’ Hall, Wednesday; Judy Canova,’ Friday. 2.30-3.0 p.m.:

Concert Hall, Sunday; Command Per-~ formance, Wednesday; Jubilee, Friday. 3.15-3.30 p.m.: World in Music, Wednesday and Thursday. 3.30-4.0 p.m. A Date With the Duke, Thursday; Tommy Dorsey, Friday. 4.30-5.0 p.m.: Say It With Music, Tuesday; Our Foreign Policy, Wednesday; Show Time, Saturday. 5.30-6.0 p.m.: Harvest of Stars, Sunday; Wayne King and His Orchestra, Tuesday; Music from America, Thursday; Waltz Time, Saturday. 6.15 -6.45 p,m.: Album of Music, Monday; To the Rear March, Tuesday; Command Performance, Wednesday; Jill’s Juke Box, Saturday. 6.45-7.0 p.m.: Hymns from Home, Sunday; World in Music, Tuesday and Wednesday. 8.15--8.45 p.m.: Charlie McCarthy, Sunday; Melody Hour, Wednesday; Music Hall, Thursday; A.F.R.S. Ranchhouse, Saturday. 8.45-9.0 p.m.: Down Beat, Sunday;. Personal Album, Monday to Saturday. 9.15-9.45: Frank Morgan, Sunday; It ‘Pays to be Ignorant, Tuesday; Hollywood Music Hall, Wednesday; Judy Canova, Friday; Hit Parade, Saturday. 10.30-11.0 p.m.: Concert Hall, Sunday; Command Performance, Wednesday, Jubilee, Friday. 11.30-mid-night: Science Magazine, Monday; Say It With Music, Tuesday; Our Foreign Policy, Wednesday; This is the Story, Thursday; Show Time, Saturday. U.N. Assembly Speeches The Radio Division of United Nations has arranged for speeches of interest to Australian and New Zealand listeners to be broadcast from the "Voice of America" stations KNBA (9.49 M/c, 31.61 metres), and KRHO (9.65 and 31,09), together with commentaries on the proceedings of different commissions, at 7.45 p.m. each evening except Monday. Every Saturday night one of the New Zealand representatives at the Assembly will be heard and a United Nations Review will be broadcast at 10.30 p.m. from the same stations. BBC’s Overseas Service ON December 29, 1946, the wartime title of the BBC’s General Forces Progtamme will be discontinued and the main service overseas in English will ‘revert throughout the 24 hours to the title "General Overseas Service." This change in title has considerable point. It means that the General Forces Programme is now to become a new peacetime Service for all Englishspeaking peoples overseas, civilian and servicemen alike; the time has’ come to carry out this change as demobilisation is almost completed and peacetime conditions are returning. It was in November, 1942, that _the General Overseas Service first came into being as a programme on shortwave for }British Forces abroad, subsequently changing its title to Forces Overseas Programme in January, 1943. In February, 1944, the Service was made available to listeners in Great Britain under the title of "General Forces Programme," thus forming a link between servicemen and their families at home. we? ‘In the new General Overseas Service the needs of the servicemen away from home will not be forgotten. In fact, the general balance of programmes will for the time being remain substantially the same. 4

KGEX KNBI KGEI KRHO KNBX KGEX KWID KGEI M/c 15.21 M/c 17.78 15.13 17.80 15.25 11.73 11.90 M/c 9.53 Metres a.m, 19.72 11. 0 645 Metres 16.87 19.83 16.85 19.67 25.58 25.21 Metres 31.48 p.m, p.m.