considerable attention this year, and the outside broadcasts team at Tai Po in the New Territories used a V.H.F. link van, stationed at Island House on Yuen Chau Tsai, to transmit the signal back to the Central Control Room at Mercury House. 'Walkie-Talkie' sets were also used at the regatta, including one mounted aboard a fishing junk on the course itself, so that the commentator could follow the competitors down the course.
Request Programmes
60. Programmes to which Hong Kong listeners could write in and request a record to be played, either for themselves or their friends, continued to be popular and approximately 70,000 letters were received during the year. The bulk of the letters are, of course, local but many also came from Macau, Malaya, Sarawak and Indonesia. There were also requests from the United Kingdom and the United States, mostly from students studying overseas asking for songs to be dedicated to their relatives and friends.
Local Sound Effects Library
61. A local sound effects library was built up during the year, and a total of about five hundred items were recorded on fifty four spools of tape and in twenty seven categories. The library has been made available to the B.B.C., the Central Office of Information in London, and to the Hong Kong Government Information Services Department. Further inquiries for the use of this valuable index of Hong Kong sounds would be welcome. It is likely to prove of considerable interest to broadcasting and television stations all over the world.
B.B.C. Relay and Transcriptions
62. In addition to the daily relay of the B.B.C. news in Cantonese and Kuoyu, and the recording of Kuoyu talks for reproduction the following morning, the B.B.C. supplied the following Cantonese trans- criptions:
(a) 'Life in Britain-Miss Wong's diary'
(c) 'Commonwealth Magazine*
(b) 'Science and Industry'
(d) 'Hong Kong in Britain'
(fortnightly)
(fortnightly)
(monthly) (monthly)
63. The texts of the science talks 'A.B.C. of the Universe' and 'A.B.C. of Space Exploration' were supplied by the B.B.C. and were read weekly in Cantonese from Radio Hong Kong as from 19th March, 1952.
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