the staff, with a fine music guide printed monthly by A.V.A. Promotions, and a daily schedule in the newspapers.
Light Music
61.
Depending as much as it does on the availability and talents of contributing artists the Light Music section still managed a rather colourful twelve months despite being hampered by a lack of funds for new projects.
62.
Among the many local productions was the series "T.N.T.", featuring the singing talents of one of RTHK's own disc jockey's Tony Orchez and guitarist, composer, arranger Tony Carpio. Producer Ray Cordeiro was justly proud of the series which compared favourably in standard with any commercial recording and listener response could only be described as tremendous,
63.
Family Favourites, a two way link up via satellite with the studios of the BBC, continued to grow in popularity and the frequency of the programme was increased to every three weeks and later in the year became a fortnightly feature on Radio 3. The series, hosted by June Armstrong-Wright, on behalf of RTHK commands a total audience 15 million listeners.
64
The greater percentage of the days broadcasting must surely rest on the shoulders of the Station's disc jockeys and personalities who carry the name of RTHK to thousands of homes in Hong Kong and provide two thirds of the day's output.
65.
Ashton Farley completed another year unchallenged as one of the top disc jockeys in Hong Kong running his own programme seven days a week. Tony Orchez, presenting a modern middle of the road programme, built up a firm following as did Bob Williams with "Bumper to Bumper" for the motorist on his way home. Barry Bakker hosted the evening programme on Radio 3 for most of the year with Ray Cordeiro rounding off the enter- tainment side of programming for the day with his late night programme All The Way With Ray.
66.
To cater for all tastes in music the Light Music section sought the services of Don Berry, the Gentle Giant and a specialist is soul music to host a weekly programme "Downstroke". Mel Tobias, who has some 3,000 recordings in his own private collection continued his appropriately named weekly programme "Off The Beaten Track" while Len Tracey catered to Jazz enthusiasté with the help of Chris Hilton in such popular programmes as Jazz Celebration, Jazz 76 and Jazz Today. John Jeffries continued his Saturday morning programme with Mathew Oram providing racing news.
15