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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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