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Competition, an event sponsored by a major bank. Through co-operation with other cultural organisations, the Urban Council, the Regional Council and government depart- ments, it was possible for the channel to maintain its broadcasts of concerts and recitals at various venues throughout the territory. Concerts were also held in the RTHK studios, featuring local and overseas artists and ensembles.
Radio 5 relays the BBC World Service from 5 p.m. to 2.30 a.m. daily. Outside these hours, it provides an additional FM service of Chinese programmes, such as Cantonese opera, provincial music, as well as programmes in Putonghua and the Chiu Chow dialect. Programmes for the elderly and programmes on Chinese classics and the arts were further strengthened in the year.
Work on the planning and engineering of the extension of the VHF Radio Services in Hong Kong has continued. Completion of the project, which will provide territory-wide coverage for seven services, is expected in 1988.
Commercial Radio operates two Cantonese services and one English-language service in the AM wave band with simulcasts on FM to areas in the New Territories and the north side of Hong Kong Island. FM coverage is expected for the whole area by the end of 1987. Fund-raising for charity continued to be an important part of the station's public service commitment. It actively supported local fund-raising activities through its participation in the annual fund-raising outside broadcasts for a children's hospital, organisation of the 9th Annual Super Stars Charity Basketball Match, and promotion of the Helping Hand for lonely old people and SANTA, which gives new toys to orphans at Christmas, both activities having originated from the English service's morning talk shows. Considerable effort was also devoted to promoting fund-raising for overseas relief agencies. CR II, known as the 'Youth Station', took part in Worldvision's 30 Hours Famine and 'The Sport Aid Race Against Time'.
The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) is part of the radio division of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation, a world-wide organisation providing entertain- ment, information and training films, video, television and radio services for the British Forces, under contract to the Ministry of Defence.
BFBS provides two radio services designed for the particular needs of the Gurkha and British Forces serving in Hong Kong, Brunei and Nepal.
Nepali programmes, broadcast for more than 76 hours each week, cater for the interests of the Brigade of Gurkhas, providing music and features reflecting daily life in Nepal, Nepalese and world news, news reviews, quiz shows and audience participation phone-in programmes.
The English-language service broadcasts for more than 130 hours a week. The breakfast and lunchtime shows originate from the BFBS Studio in HMS Tamar, with the rest of broadcasting coming from the main studio complex in Sek Kong in the New Territories.
About 40 hours each week is provided by the BFBS Production Centre in London, which keeps listeners in touch with home and provides specialist programmes involving many of Britain's premier broadcasting personalities.
The highlights of the year were the live commentaries on Her Majesty the Queen's visit to Nepal and Hong Kong, and the arrival of the special BFBS Satellite News Service.
Broadcasting Review Board Report
Following the publication in September 1985 of the Broadcasting Review Board Report containing recommendations on, among other things, regulation of the broadcasting industry, technical requirements, programme quality and advertising and censorship
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