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June 20, 1931
PROPOSE AMENDMENT TO G.O. 78
A report entitled "Recent Developments in Electrical Transcription Broad¬ casting" was submitted to the Federal Radio Commission by Edgar H. Felix, con¬ sultant to broadcasting stations, of Ridgewood, N, J,, dealing with various phases of the transcription situation. The report points out that it is now possible to make transcriptions delivering a sound range from 30 to 10,000 cycles, to outlet stations* General Order 78, he contends, is so broadly drawn that almost any kind of a recording other than a commercial record falls within its definition and may therefore be designated as "an electrical trans¬ cription made exclusively for broadcasting purposes," Many recordings offered to broadcasting stations are merely re-recorded commercial records, having all the quality limitations imposed upon such records in order to adapt them to use with low Dower home phonographs and light pick-ups. The bona fide electrical transcription is totally unsuited to use on homo phonographs. It is rendered in studios especially treated for producing radio program features and directed to record both a v/ider tone and volume range than can be handled by such instru¬ ments, Mr, Felix proposes that General Order 78 be modified to require that any feature announced as "an electrical transcription for broadcasting purposes" be an original rendition recorded for broadcasting only and not merely a by-product or re-rocording of commercial features; that the announcement required by General Order 78 be required only at the end of each record or fifteen minute period; that it be a slow speed recording to be reproduced on a turn table re¬ volving approximately 33 1/3 R, P. M, A copy of Mr, Felix® report to the Com¬ mission will be sent to each member of the Association within a few days*
NEBRASKA AND INDIANA CENSUS
With the announcement that nearly fifty per cent of the total families in Nebraska have receiving sets, the Census Bureau has made public radio census figures for this state and Indiana, Out of 343,781 families in Nebraska, 164,324, or 47,8 per cent have broadcast receivers. In the state of Indiana out of 844,463 families, 351,540 or 41,6 are equipped with sets. The nxunber of persons per family in Nebraska is 4,0, and in Indiana 3,8,
POLISH RADIO OFFICIAL HERE
Dr, Sigismond Chamiec, director of "Polskie Radjo," Poland’s broadcasting system, is in the United States making a study of American broadcasting methods. The Polish system is operated by a private concessionaire of the government. Support is derived from a tax of $3,36 per set. After observing American practices. Dr. Chamiec declares that advertising support would raise the standards of Polish broadcasting by making better talent avialabla. Plans are already under way in Poland to commercialize radio broadcasting, hs asserted.