PRESS, PUBLIC RELATIONS, BROADCASTING AND FILMS
gramme at Christmas, and gave facilities to foreign radio correspondents passing through the Colony. At the end of a busy year, further improvements to the Chinese pro- gramme were under way and the possibility of a pro- gramme exchange between Radio Hong Kong and two new Colonial stations in the Far East, Radio Sarawak and Radio Sabah (North Borneo), was being examined.
The following tables give an analysis of programme output in both sections:-
ENGLISH
CHINESE
Total hours
3,770 p.a.
Total hours
3,430 p.a.
Serious music
19.48%
Cantonese music
27.71%
Light music
23.68%
Mandarin music
3.81%
Dance music
22.44%
Swatow music
4.21%
Talks and Discussions
1.98%
Modern music
19.52%
Religion
2.98%
Cantonese Drama
6.1 %
News
8.91%
Kuoyu Drama
.76%
Features and Drama
8.26%
Talks and features
5.87%
Variety
4.43%
Story telling
4.96%
Children's Programmes
1.32%
Kuoyu lessons
1.50%
Outside Broadcasts
Women's and children's
(including sport)
1.71%
programmes
2.03%
Outside Broadcasts
Miscellaneous
3.49%
(including sport)
1.14%
Portuguese
.66%
Miscellaneous
1.78%
French
.66%
Cantonese news
7.76%
Kuoyu news ....
7.76%
Swatow news
5.09%
Rediffusion
Rediffusion (Hong Kong), Limited, operates a wired broadcasting system in the Colony, under a fran- chise granted in 1948, and provides two programmes,
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