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enabled the public to become acquainted with the electoral system and the many candidates competing in the elections. The channel also provides family magazine and sports programmes for more mature listeners.
Radio 2, the most popular station in the territory, is designed as a youth channel for providing programmes ranging from civic education to entertainment. The channel organises a large number of community activities for its audience. Spearheaded by nine youth organisations, the Solar Project and Youth in Action campaigns were produced to encourage the young generation to play a positive role in community affairs; the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award Presentation Concert which continues to promote local music talent and raise funds for charitable organisations was organised for the 14th year.
Radio 3 broadened its profile, adopting a more international outlook and sound in response to the needs of the multi-national English-speaking community in Hong Kong. The station broadcasts local, regional and international news, locally-made features, music and magazine programmes including its morning current affairs programme Hong Kong Today. Radio 3's charity campaign Operation Santa Claus raised $6 million for the Children's Cancer Fund.
Radio 4, the bilingual channel for fine music and the arts, broadcasts a wide range of fine music and regular relays of concerts held at major cultural venues in the territory. The channel also promotes local musical talent through the programme Young Music Makers -and New Music Hong Kong 1991. In 1991, Radio 4 launched various programmes and activities to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death, culminating in the Mozart Bicentenary Piano Competition of Asia which was broadcast and televised live both in Hong Kong and via satellite to 39 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Radio 5 provides cultural and minority interest programmes like Chinese Opera, provincial music and features in Putonghua. The channel specialises in producing programmes for the elderly and for children. A special project, Care for the Elderly, which included visits to different types of hostels and a health care quiz, was organised in
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Radio 6 relays the BBC World Service 24 hours a day. It broadcasts world news and a wide range of programmes from drama and music to science, sport and current affairs.
Radio 7, the only channel devoted to traffic information, widened its service to become a news information and traffic channel with effect from May 6, 1991, and extended its broadcasting hours from 0600-2400 hours to 0600-0200 hours from August 1, 1991, onwards. It provides news summaries, financial information, updated traffic information, weather and emergency messages at 15-minute intervals on weekdays and Saturday mornings with middle-of-the-road music in between. Only half-hourly news summaries, traffic and weather reports are provided on Saturday afternoon and all through Sunday in order to meet audience demand at that time for more 'golden oldies'.
Commercial Radio
Commercial Radio operates two Chinese services and one English service. All three services broadcast up-to-the-minute news every 30 minutes, news and current affairs programmes occupying one third of CR 1 broadcasting time.
CR 1 has built up its audience for news and current affairs in Hong Kong This Minute supported by speedy and accurate news reports and interviews. The programme won two