Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 2, 1939

For seven days beginning Friday, December 30. All times are EST. All programs subject to change without notice.

Fidelio (Sat. 1:55 p.m. NBC-Red). Kirsten Flagstad heads the Metropolitan cast in Beethoven's only opera.

Jean Sibelius (Sun. 1:30 p.m. NBC-Red, CBS, MBS). Finland's No. 1 composer conducts the Helsingfors Symphony. Finnish President Kyosti Kallio speaks in salute to New York's World's Fair by short wave from Finland.

Salute to 1939 (Sun. 2 p.m. NBC-Red, Blue) by Kirsten Flagstad, Ezio Pinza, Walter Hampden, Eva Le Gallienne, Walter Damrosch, Olsen and Johnson, Larry Clinton's orchestra on a special two-hour Magic Key program.

Bowl Games: Sugar (Mon. 2 p.m. NBC-Blue), Texas Christian v. Carnegie Tech at New Orleans; Orange (2:15 p.m. CBS), Tennessee v. Oklahoma at Miami; Rose (5 p.m. NBC-Red), Duke v. Southern California at Pasadena; also East v. West All Stars (4:45 p.m. MBS) from San Francisco.

76th Congress (Tues. 12 noon, NBC-Blue) meets for its first session in Washington.

President Roosevelt (Wed. I p.m. CBS) reads his message to Congress.