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programme output of the Service on the basis of this information. Chiu Chow and Hakka news bulletins were dropped and Kuoyu bulletins reduced in number to two daily; music and entertainment from parts of China other than Kwangtung were greatly curtailed and much greater emphasis was laid on an increase in quantity and quality of drama and entertainment programmes. The Lung Cheung Opera Group continued to develop well, and besides its many public appear- ances, produced its first long-playing record at the end of the year. The Cantonese Orchestra also gave many public performances, and was selected to represent the Chinese music of Hong Kong at Expo '70. The public response to the new direction taken by the Chinese Service was favourable and future audience research should indicate to what extent the changes have altered the size of the audience.
5. Approval was given during the year for a similar survey to be carried out among listeners to the English Service, and the survey began in January, with two thousand listeners being interviewed. These listeners were divided into three groups; English-speaking Chinese, resident expatriates, and Forces personnel and their dependants in order to obtain information on the listening habits of as representative a cross section of the potential audience as possible. The report on the survey was expected to be received in June 1970 and it's findings will be given in my next report.
6. An innovation which the facilities of Broadcasting House made possible was the establishment of a Radio Hong Kong Club for staff, their families and artists. The Club was about to come into being at the end of the year, and plans were in hand for a variety of recreational activities.
7. The English Service FM serious music transmissions, nightly from 9 pm to midnight, continued to draw a small but enthusiastic audience and some fifteen hundred listeners were on the mailing list for the monthly brochure listing the works to be broadcast.
8. The Sixth General Assembly of the Asian Broadcasting Union was held in Australia and New Zealand in October and was attended by the Director of Broadcasting and the Chief Engineer of Radio Hong Kong, and by the Head of English Programmes of Commercial Radio; Hong Kong Television Broadcasts was admitted to associate membership of the Union towards the end of the year.
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