COMMONWEALTH CHRONICLE
[DESIGNED to present a picture of contemporary life, and specially of social and economic development, in our sister Dominions and Great Britain, Commonwealth Chronicle will be heard from all YA and YZ stations at 9.15 p.m. on Wednesday, August 22, and at the same time every Wednesday after that. It will replace Australian Commentary, which has been on the air for some years. Contributions are expected from all of the other Dominions and Britain, though they will not be represented with equal* frequency. The programmes are being supplied by .broadcasting organisations throughout the Commonwealth. Commonwealth Chronicle will start with a pregramme from Canada. Items will include an account of the graduation of NATO air navigators in Prince Edward Island, precautions against forest fires in Saskatchewan, a fishway to protect British Columbia salmon andfor light relief-an old woman's hillbilly band at Vancouver. The NZBS has developed Commonwealth Chronicle in the hope that it will grow into a regular exchange of programmes between Commonwealth countries (though it is recognised that there will be language difficulties to overcome), and New Zealand productions have been offered to the broadcasting
authorities of the other Dominions. Special programmes have been © sent overseas in the past but, apart from material for school broadcasts, they have not been sent as part of a regular scheme; and they have not been designed to present the New Zealand scene. to overseas listeners in the way planned in Commonwealth Chronicle, Programmes have been sent to Canada, special news. commentaries have been sent to’ Australia, half a dozen programmes were exchanged with South Africa at the time of the All Blacks’ tour, and programmes, commissioned and otherwise, have frequently been sent to the BBC, which is specially interested in those which relate to life close to the soil. Broadcasts to Schools already takes part in a scheme for exchange of school broadcast programmes, and a series received from other Commonwealth countries will be heard during next school term. Last year a programme prepared for exchange with Canada in the CAildren of the Commonwealth series won the NZBS Honourable Mention from the Institution for Education by Radio of Ohio State University-an honour which the service shared with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 16
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377COMMONWEALTH CHRONICLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 16
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