A Day of Programming

4BC programming has always been interesting and inventive. Below is an example of 4BC programming in the early years. The program in question took place on Saturday, July 1, 1933.

6: 30am - Breakfast session, conducted by Sunrise Sam - program of bright popular numbers;
6:45am - News Service;
7am - The motto for the day and the morning hymn;
7:20am - Birthday Calls;
7:30am - A Pharmacy message for better health;
7:45am Happy thoughts and humorous interludes;
8am - The Children's Radio Club and club song;
8:15am - An orchestral interlude;
8:30am - New English record release session;
8:55am - Last minute racing anticipations by 'Vedette', 4BC's Racing Commissioner; 9am - Close.
1pm - Official first-hand description of the QTC races from the members' stand, Eagle Farm, given by 'Vedette'; this will be relayed to associate stations. Throughout the afternoon a specially-arranged program of delightful musical numbers will be broadcasted;

5:30pm - Tales of famous pirates and their adventures, told by Midshipman Bob Breezy of the HMAS Platypus;
5:40pm - Notes from the 4BC scrap book;
5:55pm - Community singing;
6pm - More fun with Uncle Rod and Sunrise Sam;
6:05pm - The Children's Radio Club conducted by Sunrise Sam and Uncle Rod;
6:10pm - Chockaroo's aeroplane trip;
6:30pm - Birthday greetings;
6:40pm - 'The King's Horses';
6:45pm - Bill Moloney;
7:00pm - Melody Parade;
7:15pm - Popular numbers by modern composers;
7:30pm - Gems from the old music masters;
7:55pm - News Service;
8pm - The Wizard of the Ether, musical flights;
8:30pm - Piano Pictures;
9pm - Musical Memories;
9:15pm - Melodious moments;
9:30pm - Syncopated symphonies;
10pm - Adult Birthday calls, relay from Trocadero, modern dance melodies supplied by Billo Smith and his Trocadero Orchestra;
11pm - Night Owl's Club presenting a high-spot vaudeville program - a merry-go-round of mirth, melody, sketches and dance music;
12:30am - Musical finale. Close'.

4BC's Dramatic Team produced up to 12 live features a week - including 'Witches Tales' which was sold throughout Australia and to America. The man in charge of this activity was Tom McGregor, who joined the station in 1935 as an actor-announcer and in 1936 was appointed by the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters as their representative in the national broadcasting of the Olympic Games from Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo and Mexico City, as well as a number of Empire Games series. Tom McGregor, as 4BC's Sporting co-ordinator, helped to establish 4BC's 3-State Racing Service as one of the most efficient in the Commonwealth.

Source: 4BC