of writing, the tabular reports have been prepared by Survey Research Hong Kong Ltd., the interpretation is not yet to hand. However, preliminary investigations indicate that the changes in the Chinese Service programmes as a result of the first survey, which was carried out in 1968, have been successful and that the service has considerably improved in prestige.
6. The aim of the Government Broadcasting Services remains the same i.e., to provide balanced programmes but with the emphasis being laid on information and public affairs. However, considerable time in both programme services is devoted to light music and enter- tainment and, in the Chinese service in particular, to radio drama which is always popular with listeners.
Entertainment
CHINESE SERVICE
7. The new Entertainment Section which was set up only in October 1969 continued to be mainly concerned with live productions in a western idiom. The main effort of this Section was put into the pro- duction of concerts of modern songs and the 'Beginners Please' series. The monthly variety programme 'Hong Kong As Time Rolls On', which is a combination of comedy, interviews, news and modern songs sung by top pop singers continued. The programme is broadcast locally at the end of each month and a copy of the recording is sent to United Kingdom for the enjoyment of overseas Hong Kong Chinese.
Drama
8. Drama programmes are still very popular among Chinese listeners. For this reason, the output of the Drama Section was increased from 20 programmes a week to over 50 productions. These programmes included situation comedies, dramatized serial plays, folk stories, detectives stories and thrillers, etc. Because of the demand created by the increase in output, a great deal of effort was exerted in the training of new drama artists.
Music
9. Some of the highly professional drama artists were also utilized in the Music and Presentation Section particularly in the opera per-
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