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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, RADIO SUPPLEMENT. MONDAY, DECEMBER

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Wireless In Hongkong.

(BY 6. SWINBURNE)

No better indication of the

Improvements made in the local broadcasting service in recent months is need than the rapid increase in the number of radio receivers now-installed throughout the Colony. Under the recently amended regulations the. Government keeps track of all wireless apparatus sold, it requires cach receiving station to be duly licenced and by these means secures an offective check on the popularity or otherwise of wireless broadcasting.

The new policy adopted with regard to ZBW has been followed by must gratifying results. For a time the station was nobody's child. It transmitted daily, rather monotonously but nevertheless bravely, to,n pitifully small num- ber of listeners. A year ago about a hundred people had licenced receiving sets-to-day the number is approaching 700 it is under- stood. Up to the end of Inst month the Radio Office had issued 646 licences and it is stated on good authority that the first four- teen days of this month w another hundred licences sold.

If further evidence of the grow- ing interest in broadcasting wore needed it may be seen all over the Colony In the form of aerials which spring up, mushroom-like, almost daily. The shops of the audio denter's are crowded and wo may liken the present time in Hongkong to the days of 1922 and 1924 in England when broadcast- ing first caught the imagination of the public.

The Growth of Interest,

In those days the crystal set held pride of place. It is almost unknown. in Hongkong where the Fleming valve hold sway. So fn Hongkong there is no repetition of the lectic days in England about six or seven years ago when enter, prising individuals dug in the hills for crystals, wrapped pieces in cotton wool and dressed them in faney boxes to sell at impossible prices.

It is impossible"to draw a local picture of the members of a family, all constrained to painful silence, solemnly passing round the soli- tary pair of headphones attached to a tiny crystal set which was, perhaps, made in a matchbox or which had its essential parts stuck in a plece of plasticine.

Hongkong's interest Jus de- veloped much less rapidly and much less romantically.

For # time there were a few experimen- few broadcast ters and also a listeners-the latter probably re- garding their radio receive as a box of mysteries producing music by some method probably best left not understood. People gradually awoke to the fnet that ZBW, which was nobody's child in the sense that is transmissions fell, one might say, on barren ground, had beconie a lusty youngster clamour- Ing for and almost demanding for and almost demanding atten tion.

The appointment of a Commit- Lee of control. to nurse the youngster has been followed by a comparatively rapid sprend bf enthusiasm on the part of the public. The recent work of in- dividuals who have played no small part in this much beinted but still welcome interest in local broadcasting has received due publicity. It is reflected in the improved *prograrames, longer hours of transmission and the introduction of many new features.

ZBW's Entertainments, The service has advanced further in a few months than it bas during the whole time of its existence-not entirely because the responsible authorities were unwilling to do more, but because there was little or no inducement to do more.

Hongkong's broadcasting atation faces a bright future. That the service it maintaine possesses con- value siderable entertainment there is no doubt, If it were otherwise the shops of the radio dealers would see far fewer customers and only Isolated licences would be issued.

It need not be stressed, thero- fore, that ZBW is worth Hening to. We cannot expect a minature. 2L0 and it would be unfair to make comparisons. But the con- census of opinion among local listenera is undoubtedly that ZBW offers attractive entertainment. If it does this, then it fulfills it purpose, and deserves the whole- hearted support of the community, which, of course, need not be re- minded that the possession of an adequately powerful receiver makes the reception, of, other than local programmes possible.

Some may be satisfied with the local Яlation. Others may wish occasionally to search further afield. The needs of both are entered for in Hongkong where, st long last, there is a long overdue erihusiasm for wireless broad- casting. The future points to even greater popularity, and the relegation for ever of the indict ment that radio interest had. spread almost everywhere except to Hongkong,

1929

PAGE THREE

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