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for a Christmas programme for the Armed Forces and for a feature on leprosy. Assistance was given to a visiting B.B.C. television team.
Radio Hong Kong continued to supply Radio Sarawak with recorded Kuoyü plays and with Kuoyü by Radio les- sons designed for Cantonese-speaking listeners. The Director of Broadcasting of Radio Sabah in North Borneo visited Radio Hong Kong and preliminary discussions were held on the supply of Radio Hong Kong Chinese programmes to North Borneo. Radio Malaya was supplied throughout the year with recordings of two weekly Chinese magazine pro-
grammes.
Cordial relations were maintained with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, both of which supplied programmes; -
;- from New York came regular United Nations programmes.~'
REDIFFUSION
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Sound Relay. Rediffusion (H.K.) Ltd. provides a popular wired broadcast service throughout the Colony, extending to practically all urban areas and most of the outlying villages of the Island and the mainland. At present the system em- braces more than 1,000,000 yards of main trunk network cable and approximately 2,500,000 yards of subscribers' in- stallation cabling. Distribution is from three sub-stations, feeding 20 kiosks from which 108 feeders radiate to approximately 65,000 Rediffusion loudspeakers.
Programmes are originated in Rediffusion House from modern air-conditioned studios and provide three simultane- ous programmes between 7.00 a.m. and midnight daily, two Networks (Gold and Silver) in Chinese and one (Blue) in English.
Approximately 14% of Rediffusion programmes are com- mercially sponsored. The Chinese programme service offers music, news, drama, talks, sports, commentaries, women's features, children's shows, comedy, story-telling and theatre