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of the problems and attitudes of the different communities who make up the Colony's society. In addition to public affairs programmes there are many serious and light music programmes included in the schedules, with comprehensive news and weather services throughout the day. Transmission hours for both English and Chinese programmes are from 7 a.m. to midnight daily, although the total number of transmission hours is increased as a result of using medium wave and FM transmissions for different programme purposes during certain times of the day.
Commercial Radio celebrated its Tenth Anniversary on August 26. To commemorate this occasion, the company established a $100,000 Memorial Fund for educational purposes in memory of the late Lam Bun and Lam Kwong Hoi whose murder in 1967, horrified and grieved the people of Hong Kong. Special programmes were put on by both English and Chinese services to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the station, and birthday cakes were given to children who were born on the same day 10 years ago.
Commercial Radio's Chinese services this year began broad- casting their own news bulletins from studios in Yau Yat Chuen instead of relaying the news from Radio Hong Kong.
The wired sound service of Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Ltd-a locally controlled subsidiary of the organisation which operates in Britain and in many other Commonwealth countries-is dis- tributed throughout the urban areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon and to many outlying villages in the islands and New Territories by more than 1,500 miles of main trunk lines and another 4,000 miles of installation cabling.
At the end of the year there were 35,000 loudspeakers connected to these sound services which offer a choice of four programmes.
TELEVISION
Hong Kong had the distinction of being the first British colony to operate a television service when the network of Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Ltd (RTV) was established in 1957. The station now has a Chinese and an English programme channel. There are about 95,000 subscribers to this wired service. The station provides