Hey Everybody, Welcome to the Weekend! That’s how the show begins every week, but what’s inside this 3 hour show is what keeps you to the end. Greatest Hits USA takes you through the past, with the music of the 60‘s 70‘s & beyond. Plus the fun stuff like News from the Past, the Birthday Bunch & with your Requests. Born in Cleveland OH, Chuck Matthews is a 25+ year broadcast veteran who's on air shenanigans include multiple Marconi Award winner WMJI/Cleveland, DMX Primestar Satellite (now DirecTV) as host of the Good Times, Great Oldies channel, and more. Chuck is also an accomplished national voiceover talent with credits that include The Pro Football Hall of Fame, Super Bowl LI, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, The Cleveland Clinic, and more. Now, Chuck Matthews goes Coast to Coast one more time, on Greatest Hits USA, playing America’s favorites!

You can here Greatest Hits USA Saturday at 0300GMT and Sunday at 0900GMT here on Apple-FM.

Since Apple-FM began, we have always tried to be more than just music. The news output in important to us. That is why we have FSN (Feature Story News) providing our news bulletins and updates. FSN has reporters around the world and supplies news to some major broadcasters from New Zealand to Europe, via South Africa and The Vatican. You can hear the News (5 mins) 0000, 0600, 1200 & 1800 GMT Mon - Fri. (3 mins) 0130, 0300, 0430, 0730, 0900, 1030, 1330, 1500, 1630, 1930, 2100, 2230 GMT with 30 second headlines between these bulletins.

Throughout the year we bring you sport coveage of Tennis & F1 Racing. Paul Walsh will report direct from the Australian Open tennis in January, and Wimbledon in June/July. He also reports on the Formula 1 qualifying and race days in the F1 calendar. We have been known to cover football in the shape of the Asian Cup, and Rugby world cups. Stay tuned for more sport from Apple-FM and @sportpaul.

Throughout the day you will have noted that Ed sponsors a lot of our programming. From the only TV repair service in town that has been around since 1867, to the bank that has lengthened its lobby. The voice of these announcemnets is the late great Gary Owens, the voice of "Laugh in" in the 60's and "Soundtrack of the 60's", in the 80's. Owens coined the phrase "Beautiful downtown Burbank" which was later used on Laugh-In and The Tonight Show.

Throughout the day we keep you up to date with the weather here in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is often over 30C in the summer, and the locals regard anything below 20C as very cold, or "oh dong!" Apart from Moon's updates, you can also see the weather in other cities in the region by clicking the Asia Weather link at the top of the page.

In one two hour period recently we played ...... Lee Dorsey, Carole King, Rita Coolidge, Cheri, Manfred Mann's Earthband, Stevie Wonder, Katie Melua, Marlena Shaw, Love Affair, The Johnny Otis Show, Mary Hopkin, Herman's Hermits, Huey Lewis & The News, Blue Suede, Tracy Chapman, The Four Tops, Reunion, Jimmy Clanton, Lighthouse Family, Frank Sinatra, Ray Stevens, Elton John, Albert Hammond, Hotlegs, The Nashville Teens, Shakira, Minnie Ripperton, Mike Post, New Musik, Chicago, The Beatles. 24 hours a day we have a strange mix of music of these and other artists from all over the world. Japan, Korea, Ireland, Switzerland, South Africa, Australia, China and more. Some stations shout about "No Repeat Weekends". we have no repeat days everyday. More memories an hour - Apple-FM.

The Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has begun to open a specifically tailored hotel chain with a Chinese styling called Hualuxe. These hotels incorporate Chinese cultural aspects such as tea and natural woods.

The Hualuxe in Xiamen, Fujian, is one of these new hotels, opening in November 2017. It has mastered the Chinese style of making guests feel special to an extent that we have never found in any hotel anywhere. Nothing is too much to make a guest's stay complete, and the whole staff is there to server just them. The training programme for new staff must be something that was worked on for months to perfect. The TripAdvisor reviews number 441, at the time of writing, with 432 putting the hotel in the excellent category. Most sight the staff and service as their biggest impression.

IHG members have a special check in desk in most IHG hotels, but here it is taken to a level that tells the guest they have come to a hotel that may be under rated at just 5 stars.

The restaurant standard is high and extensive. Breakfast is worth waking up for, no matter your preference. All ages are catered for along with Chinese and Western options, or, of course, you can mix and match. But if you would like something not seen, you may well find a chief cooking a custom disk for you.

The rooms also reflect the Chinese styling in the decor, along with a deep, comfortable, sleep. Even the chairs and cabinets are unmistakable Chinese. The Xiamen hotel has great views across the harbour to the city. You can watch the ships and ferries moving about or just enjoy the skyline.

The hotel is across a 6 lane bridge from the city proper, but it is not a long or costly ride to "downtown" or any sight seeing location. The staff can advise you on places to go and even how to get back if you are in an unfamiliar city.

Those staying in a Club Room have access to the Club Lounge and again stunning views from the 27th floor, as they eat or drink. This too has a very strong service ethic to make it a home from home.

If you are visiting Xiamen or any mainland city, you should search to see if there is a Hualuxe hotel there yet and consider it for your stay. We cannot recommend them enough.

Listen out for our new station jingles from Jingles Factory in Italy. The new material will grow into the Apple-FM sound over the next few weeks as we make more and more from the basic cuts. JF have supplied just the singing, long music beds, effects, and more to let us play and play for hours making more stuff. We are sure you will enjoy the new sounds. Listen out for the one that sounds like Long Train Running by the Doobie Brothers, or the one that sounds like a nice jazz tune, or there's the one with a hint of Gamble & Huff. Then there is more besides those.

The autumn round of trade fairs in Hong Kong is drawing to an end. But one of the problems, while walking around the stands, is to sort out which are truly manufacturers and which are trading or reseller companies. Then there is the problem of quality control and checking the management systems of factories. For some, this can be a time consuming and expensive task.

A company called OneReach tries to serve this need. They market themselves as your representative in China. They are not just for electronics, but also cover Tea, Clothing, Kitchenware, Cosmetics, and more. They can Source your products and then monitor productions, shipping and on-site inspections. If you want to inspect yourself in person, they will also help with interpreters, accompanied visits, transport pick-ups, and accommodation bookings.

Their office is close to the Fu Tian/Lok Ma Chau crossing from Hong Kong into Shenzhen, so a quick visit from Hong Kong is quite easy. Then they can whisk you off to review possible makers for your products.

You can contact OneReach at +86 136 0305 5631 or +86 755 2527 1711 or by email at phoebe@onereach.hk and their website is at www.onereach.hk

The spring editions of the Hong Kong electronics fairs have been held this week in Wan Chai (HKTDC) and at Asia World Expo (Global Sourcing). With our usual love of gadgets we just had to go along. Asicer (www.asicer.com.cn) were showing their range of microphones (Well we are radio people).

You may see outdoor press conferences on TV News with reporters holding the ends of their mobile phones up to the speaker to record what is said. But Asicer provide a better option for recording on your phone. The little MC-098 can be plugged into the earphone socket of your phone and you can plug earphones into the bottom of the mic to hear what is being picked up by the mic. This will give a far better recording for news reporting. The mic has an internal rechargeable battery to power the mic on the road, or you can plug in a standard USB cable to power or charge the unit.

The bigger MC-094 can be put in a desk stand or given a pop screen for recording in a studio setting. The mics can also be plugged into a PC sound card Mic input. Asicer's mics can be used for Karaoke or voice recording. They have built in echo that can be faded out for a clean sound. The ability to monitor what you are recording all in one unit is handy for one man operation. So they can be suitable for home podcast recordings as well as news recordings.

You can find out more on their website or by emailing alleen@asicer.com.cn or call Alleen on +86 134 2424 2731

Just arrived from across the border is the MX7-B speaker & power bank from NCT (http://nctechno.com/).

The sound quality is excellent, delivering 3W of audio output.

It can play audio from an SD card, from a slot on the bottom of the device, or audio cable from your phone, PC & tablet, or you can link to it via a Bluetooth connection.

As there is a built-in power bank, you can use the speaker without wires for several hours.

The power bank can also give 5000mAh at 1A to charge your phone if you need.

The unit is well thought out with small nylon rests on the bottom of the MX7-B to protect it and your table top if you stand it up, using the little built-in prop on the back of the speaker. The prop also has a nylon tip to avoid scratches. There are also LED's to show how the power bank is doing, that it is charging and how much charge it has stored.

We will be giving ours a good workout over Christmas, but our first day using it has been very pleasing.

For more infomation email Catherine at sales03@nctechno.com

After a number of problems with our server, we have moved everything and seem to have resolved all the things that have been wrong for the past few weeks. We can again stream reliably and we have more hard disk space for more music. IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS LISTENING TO APPLE-FM, PLEASE LET US KNOW VIA EMAIL OR THE CONTACT FORM

The Hong Kong autumn fairs have been taking place at Asia World Expo near the airport and at the Hong Kong Conference Centre in Wan Chai. Thousands of stands attracting buyers from all over the world to buy electronics and more. You can read more about the fairs here here

Our brand new mobile apps are now available for download. In the past we have only been able to supply apps for Android devices But now, with the help of Nobex, we can offer apps for Apple IOS devices like iPhones, iPads and iTouch, Blackberry devices, as well as a new Android App. The new programmes will select the best stream for your data plan, selecting a lower bit rate for 3G/4G users, and a higher one for wi-fi users. Please take a look at the new apps by clicking on the appropriate link at the top of the page. We would also like your feedback on how the apps work for you.

As you can see, we have a new website. The old one was "Flash" and so is posing problems with more and more devices. The new site is written in HTML5 and so be visible on almost all mobile phones, tablets, and PC's.

The new player is also HTML5 and so your mobile should play the station when you are on the site. We are still using the 64K feed for the website, as a lot of browsers have a problem playing AAC+. Hopefully this will change soon and we can use an AAC+ feed to save on your mobile data. But you can still go to the other feeds directly from the links at the top of the page.

As ever we welcome your comments on our service, so please email us or use the contact form at the bottom of the page.