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the autumn the series changed format to include several subjects within a programme but "Spectrum" became a victim of financial cutbacks and had to be dropped.
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Documentary films continued to be made in English and Chinese. The most distinguished was "A Mere Commodity" which showed how teenage girls are sold to work in music parlours and brothels.
THE YEAR IN RADIO
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A shadow was cast over the year by the deaths of Geoffrey Weeks, Controller of the English Radio Service, Ian Stewart, Head of Presentation in the English Radio Service, and Chow Nai-yeung, former Head of Chinese Radio Service.
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The end of the previous year (1973-74) had seen the establishment of four distinct channels, Radios 1-4, each aimed at catering to different tastes in the Chinese and English- speaking communities. Having set up the channels the production staff spent the greater part of the year refining the output of each. This they did with considerable success, and soon each channel had well defined outputs catering to different audiences and the public was quick to let its approval be known through the press and by constant communication with the station.
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An important development based on audience research during the year was the division of programmes into bands aimed at particular audiences. Thus morning programmes were designed to cater for housewives and late afternoon programmes to the youth of Hong Kong. This led to the establishment of listening patterns which showed that audiences were attracted to broadcast- ing personalities who projected their own identities and particular styles. It also resulted in fewer programmes during the day thus enabling producers of evening and weekend programmes to have more time to carry out necessary research. It also meant that RHK was less dependent on transcription material from overseas stations.
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CHINESE RADIO SERVICE RHK-1 and RHK-2)
During the year the entire programme schedules on the Chinese radio channels were changed to attract the greatest possible audiences. These programmes continued to use the 'phone-in' element introduced the previous year and by providing the audience with the facility to talk to the presenters, the station was able to keep in tune with the current preoccupations, worries and opinions of the public. The phone-in' programmes
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