Recording
20. The following statistics from Recording Room logs reflect the trend to increasing use of recording facilities, in particular those using the magnetic tape medium. brackets are those for the same period in 1953/54.
Total recorded items on disc Total recorded items on tape
393
Figures in
(425)
769 (609)
1,162 (1,034)
At the end of the year two new tape recorder/ reproducers were being shipped from the United Kingdom.
Radio Relays
21. 1986 received radio programmes were re-broadcast in the Radio Hong Kong services either direct or deferred from recordings. This compares with 1904 in the previous year.
The figure is made up as follows:-
From B.B.C. daily relay
From B.B.C. Occasional
From other stations
Total
1,464
491
31
1,986
The reception point for all relays is the Cable and Wireless Station at Mount Butler, where B.B.C. External Service programmes are picked up either direct from Britain or through the B.B.C's British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service relay station in Singapore. The average number of hours taken from B.B.C. for relay purposes per month was 31 hours, English; 15 hours, Chinese.
Great credit is due to the B.B.C. and to the staff at Mount Butler Receiving Station for the fact that, in the year under review only six programmes could not be re-broadcast owing to bad reception conditions.
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