COMMUNICATIONS AND THE MEDIA
special awards at the International Radio Festival of New York in the Best Magazine and Best News Format categories.
In its ongoing promotion of local artists and culture, CR 2 paid tribute to local pop music by sponsoring and researching the history, development and background of local music. The channel staged Hong Kong's first Music Expo in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in August.
The station maintained its commitment to and involvement in the community with special emphasis on civic education, environmental protection and fund raising campaigns, notably for kidney and bone marrow transplant programmes with the Yan Chai and the Prince of Wales Hospitals.
Joining forces with other electronic media, Commercial Radio devoted considerable effort in fund raising drives for the flood victims in China. The biggest project undertaken by the station, a charity bazaar, was held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in August, attracting 160 000 people and raising $16 million for the flood victims.
Metro Broadcast
Metro Broadcast is a new sound broadcaster which commenced in the latter half of 1991.
Metro channels are Metro News (AM), Hit Radio (FM) and FM Select. These were launched respectively on July 22, August 2 and August 12, 1991. The target listenership is: youth 12-25 (Hit Radio), adults 25–50 (FM Select) and news and information seekers (Metro News).
Metro News is a 24-hour all news service, Hit Radio is a Cantonese channel featuring pop music while FM Select is a bi-lingual music channel for more mature listeners.
British Forces Broadcasting Service
The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) is part of the radio division of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation, a worldwide organisation providing entertainment, information and training films, video, television and radio services for the British Forces, under contract to the Ministry of Defence.
BFBS provides two radio services designed for the particular needs of the Gurkhas and British Forces serving in Hong Kong, Brunei and Nepal.
Nepali programmes, broadcast for 90 hours each week from Sek Kong in the New Territories, cater for the interests of the Brigade of Gurkhas, providing music and features reflecting daily life with the brigade in Hong Kong as well as in Nepal and Brunei.
The English-language service broadcasts 24 hours a day with most of the programmes coming from the main studio complex in Sek Kong. News, reviews, sport, quiz pro- grammes and audience participation phone-ins help to complete the service.
The BFBS satellite enables the station to broadcast a regular weekly show live from London and major programmes such as BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend and BBC Radio 5's Sport on 5 as well as other major sporting and State occasions.
The production centre in London has a brief to keep its overseas listeners in touch with home and provides specialist programmes on a variety of subjects involving many of Britain's premier broadcasting personalities. BFBS London also provides live news every hour on the hour.
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