SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 16

SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS

| Radcbetyerem interested in hearing the actual proceedings of the UN General Assembly, which will conclude its session at the Palais Chaillot, Paris, on Wednesday of ‘next week, December 8, can tune in to these UN actuality broadcasts on the shortwave band each evening except Monday. » The direct broadcast of the proceedings is accompanied by a running commentary in both English and French. Between 9.30 p.m. and 12.45 a.m, (New Zealand time) the forenoon sessions are heard on 15.291 mc/s., 19.61 metres; and 6.09 mc/s., 49.26 metres. Afternoon sessions of the Assembly are to be heard .on the following frequencies and wavelengths between 2.0 a.m. and 6.45 am.; 7.28 mec/s., 41.21 metres; 15.24, 19.68; 15.295, 19.61; 17.76, 16.90. Broadcasts to the Pacific Area are also made through the ‘Voice of America" Service, over stations on the West Coast of America and in Manila; KNBA (6.06 mc/s., 49.50 metres), KNBI (9.65, 31.09), KNBX (11.79, 25.45), KCBR (15.13, 19.83), Manila (15.33, 19.57). At 7.30 p.m. a five-minute bulletin of UN news headlines is heard, followed by 15 minutes of foreign language news, opening again in English at 7.50 p.m. for the news in full, "United. Nations To-day" is a feature programme broadcast at 8.0 p.m, Canada Every Sunday night at 8.45 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations situated at Sackville, New Brunswick, broadcast a programme’ to Australia and New Zealand and are being heard at good strength at present. The stations are CHOL (11.72 mec/s., 25.60 metres), and CHLS (9.61, 31.32). The programme opens with "Listeners’ Corner," in which listeners’ letters are answered, followed at 9.0 p.m. by the News. "Canadian Chronicle" is heard at 9.15 p.m. and a feature entitled "Prairie Schooner" ig broadcast at 9.30 p.m. "Cross Section" is heard at 9.4 p.m., followed by "Stories of Yesterday an To-day" at 10.0 p.m. and "Eye-witness Account" at 10.15 p.m.