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PUBLICATIONS, BROADCASTING AND FILMS
The wired broadcasting services of Rediffusion reach over 50,000 loudspeaker outlets, and the television service has about 11,000 subscribers.
RADIO HONG KONG
Radio Hong Kong, the Government broadcasting organization, uses Cantonese as its main language in its Chinese Service, but also includes programmes in Kuoyu, Chiuchow and Hakka. The English Service is entirely in English, except for a weekly pro- gramme for Portuguese listeners and a fortnightly programme in French.
Both Services are broadcast on medium wave, and on VHF/FM, the Chinese using 640 Kc/s and 94 Mc/s, and the English Service using 860 Kc/s and 91 Mc/s. The Chinese Service is also broadcast on 3940 Kc/s, principally for the benefit of the Colony's fishing fleet in the waters of the South China Sea.
The studio centre is in Mercury House, the Far Eastern Head- quarters of Cable and Wireless Ltd, who are responsible for all Radio Hong Kong's technical operations. The medium and short- wave transmitters are at Hung Hom on the mainland and the VHF/FM transmitters at Mount Gough on Hong Kong Island.
The Director of Broadcasting is in charge of the Department, which is divided into four divisions, English Service, Chinese Service, Administration and Engineering, the work of the four divisions being co-ordinated by the Assistant Director. Each pro- gramme service has a staff of permanent producers and announcers, but each employs a large number of non-staff producers, writers, actors, musicians, singers and speakers. During 1961 there were over seven hundred non-staff contributors employed by the Department.
Between 1957 and 1960, Radio Hong Kong underwent a con- siderable expansion of its activities; the two programme services increased their daily hours of broadcasting from an average of ten to seventeen; new producers and announcers were recruited and trained, both in the Colony and with the BBC in London. Reception of Services was improved by the introduction of FM transmissions; studios and offices were rebuilt to provide better facilities and widen the range of programmes that could be produced.