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Friday, May 12, 1972
RADIO HONG KONG TO BROADCAST STEREO SERVICE
For Experimental Period Of One Week
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Radio Hong Kong will broadcast an experimental stereo service
from Wednesday, May 24 to Wednesday, May 31 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. each
day.
Giving details of the scheme today, Mr. Ian Kingsley, Deputy
Director of Broadcasting, said the stereo service, which will be additional
to Radio Hong Kong's normal output will consist of both English and Chinese
programme material. It will be broadcast on the F.M. frequency of 96,0 MHz.
The transmitters which will be used are part of Radio Hong Kong's
outside broadcast equipment and have been adapted in order to carry stereo
programmes,
Because they will be transmitting from Broadcasting house, reception
should be reasonably satisfactory in the Kowloon area and the north side
of Hong Kong Island, but difficulties may be encountered in those areas
which are screened from Broadcast Drive.
Broadcast time will be more or less evenly divided between the
The English Service will open with two
English and Chinese programmes.
hours of light music between 10 a.m. and 12 noon each day, followed by two
hours of Chinese music. The hour between 2 and 3 p.n. will be devoted to
drama and music from the English Service and from 3 to 4 p.m. there will be
modern Chinese music. The period from 4 to 7 p.m. will be devoted to the
English Service including both light and serious music sessions, and between
7 and 10 p.m. there will be more Chinese music. Between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m.
each day programmes will alternate between Chinese and English output.
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