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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

To help publicize Hong Kong at the Vienna Trade Fair, a fifteen-minute documentary on the Colony was produced by Radio Hong Kong in Austrian and broadcast by the Austrian broad- casting networks.

Facilities were provided throughout the year to correspondents of many overseas radio organizations stationed in or visiting the Colony, and Radio Hong Kong contributed to the Light Pro- gramme, the North Region of the Home Service and the General Overseas Service of the B.B.C. on several occasions.

An unusual facility was provided to the Columbia Broadcasting System, which used a large studio on four occasions for the filming of the Hong Kong part of "The Small World', a television pro- gramme in which prominent personalities in different parts of the world are linked by radio telephone for a discussion of world events. Taking part in the programmes filmed in Radio Hong Kong were U Nu, former Prime Minister of Burma, and the author Han Su-Yin.

Many other prominent men and women broadcast for Radio Hong Kong during the year, including Stirling Moss, Dr. Charles Hill, Sylvia Syms, Margot Fonteyn, Cyd Charisse, Terence Rattigan, Gladys Aylward, the Rt. Hon. Richard Casey, Lord Rowallan, Ilka Chase, Quentin Reynolds, Tennessee Williams and W. Somerset Maugham.

Towards the end of the year, work began on the building of the new FM transmitting station at Mount Gough on Hong Kong Island. By the end of December, most of the equipment for the station had been delivered, the transmitter building itself was nearing completion and the aerial mast was about to be erected.

Steady progress was made in modernizing and improving all types of studio and outside broadcast equipment. In particular, the main drama and music studio underwent considerable improve- ment, with a new control console being installed, together with a wide range of microphones including very high quality con- denser microphones and a variety of tape and disk playback equipment.

Outside broadcast amplifiers and mixers, at present of an obsolescent design, are being replaced by miniaturised audio mixers using transistors; another advance in the outside broadcast