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three separate points by commentators and the arrival of HRH Princess Alexandra was covered from two points.
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A new family interview programme was introduced in the winter on Sunday mornings and a panel proved a popular weekly feature in the Ladies' Programme on Saturday afternoons. The evening news service is now a most comprehensive one with bulletins or headlines every hour from 5 o'clock to midnight. To commemorate Battle of Britain Day the station produced its first large scale docu- mentary programme which required over twenty different voices. A literary programme was introduced which included book and play reviews.
The programme has an English director who is assisted by six assistants, two of whom are American, three English and one Australian. There is one English Programme Assistant under training. The Senior Programme Assistant spent ten weeks with the Macquarie Network-the largest in Australia-on a training course. Two artists are under exclusive contract to the station.
Transcribed shows have been obtained from Australia, America and Canada. A new approach to serious music in peak listening hours has been adopted with regular concerts being broadcast at 9.30 p.m. from Monday to Friday. The percentage of airtime devoted to serious music is approximately 13%. The bulk of pro- gramming is on record and handled by staff members with members of the European community being employed as contributors for special programmes and also as announcers.
Female announcers are used from 10.00 a.m. to midday and from 2.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. and 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. on Mondays to Saturdays, and male announcers from 6.00 p.m. until midnight and all day Sunday.
Chinese Programme Department. The Chinese Programme Department is headed by a Programme Director with six pro- gramme assistants, and 108 full-time staff members. 1961 has been a year of expansion for this Department too. The basic program- ming structure has been strengthened and enlarged, so that, in all, 185 dramatized radio plays and 21 Chinese operas were produced in its studios. Two hundred and sixty announcements were made on behalf of local charity organizations. Two months before the final examination for the secondary and primary schools an in- tensive series of educational programmes aimed at helping school
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