Chung Wai Ming Recalls His Sixty Years in Radio

Clip4-Training in the United States, 1961

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In 1961, I was sent to train at Voice of America in Washington D.C. When a colleague there discovered that I had studied at Tung Chi College another colleague mentioned that my teacher there was his student, so I actually met up with my “grand teacher”. They were all former students of Lingnan University who had gone to the United States for further studies and then stayed on to work in radio. Thanks to their guidance, I learnt many new things. For instance, it is usual for a clock to be hung high on the wall in a studio, but in Voice of America, the clock was hung only half way up the wall, and I asked them why this was so. They explained that when one lifted one’s head to look at the clock, it would take two seconds and having the clock hung at mid height would save time. Another example was that the paper they used for the script was yellow, and they explained that it was because white reflected too much light and yellow was easier on the eye. These things showed that they were more advanced and professional.

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