Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

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NEWS NOTES From Foreign Lands ALTHOUGH the British Broadcasting Corporation publishes its own radio program and other magazines, the London Evening Standard has instituted a complete radio department, publishing daily critiques and surveys of broadcast programs by Garry Allighan, radio authority. On Fridays there is a special section devoted to readers queries, technical problems, radio personalities, etc. The newspaper, in its own words, was prompted to inaugurate this new departure in British journalism because of the ever-increasing public interest in broadcasting. Of the 12,000,000 radio listeners estimated to be in the British Isles, 40 per cent are in and around London. CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S postal administration has addressed to all European states subscribing to the Prague wave allocation plan a proposal for a revision of that plan to meet the interference resulting from the 9-kilocycle separation between channels. It is proposed to call a new conference at Locarno to consider the possibility of widening this separation to 13 kilocycles. WHEN the new broadcasting station at Trieste, Italy, was opened recently, a solemn procession journeyed from the town to Mount Triestiniceo, the hill on which the transmitter is built, and in the name of Italy, its King and its Duce, baptised the hill "Mount Radio." ITALIAN broadcasting authorities have decided to retain lady announcers, after having announced several months ago that they would be dropped. The Danish radio system is also planning to try out lady announcers. THE NEW transmitter now under construction in Berlin for the German Broadcasting Corporation's station at Leipzig will have a power of 150 kilowatts, according to a London report. ENGLAND'S counterpart of the Carnegie Rockefeller foundation which established the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, New York, is the United Kingdom Fund, established by Andrew Carnegie, which is financing experiments in adult education on the BBC system. SECRET tests of the broadcasting possibilities on the channels around 7 meters will be conducted shortly by the British Broadcasting Corporation engineers. The BBC is having the Marconi company build a 1-kilowatt ultra-short wave transmitter, which may be located atop England's new Broadcasting House for the experiments. AN ASSOCIATED Press dispatch from Berlin quotes Count George Arco, the German radio authority, as forecasting the reorganization of Europe's broadcasting system within five or ten years. He predicts that perhaps one station per nation, with powers ranging up to 10,000 kilowatts, will supply the continent's program services. AS OF Aug. 31, there were 3,818,614 paid radio licenses in force in England, and in addition there were 25,488 free licenses issued to blind persons, according to E. A. Weir, radio service director of the Canadian National Railways at Montreal. British radio set owners pay the Postoffice Department an annual license fee amounting to about $2.50, part of which goes to the support of the British Broadcasting Corporation. FOR THE British Broadcasting Corporation, J. M. Duthie on Oct. 14 began a series of broadcast lessons in Scottish country dancing. Certain setting figures are issued to the public, and they are instructed via the microphone as to the movements they should follow. A similar series on modern ballroom dancing was conducted several years ago on the BBC system. "FAMOUS faux pas" of history and contemporary life are being dramatized in a current series of broadcasts over the British Broadcasting Corporation system. Honolulu Station Serves American Military Post KGMB, Honolulu, using the slogan, "On the Beach at Waikiki," is now located on the sixth floor of the Stangenwald building in Honolulu, serving its population of more than 200,000. Its present remote control system goes to Schofield Barracks, largest American regular military station, where it connects with the post public address system for program interchange. The military band sends music to KGMB's transmitter and, in turn, the station programs are available to the military post. Other permanent remotes include one to the Moana hotel on Waikiki Beach for evening dance music : to the Young hotel, in down town Honolulu, for their supper music and public banquets, and another to the Christian Science church for its regular lectures. A. Henley, general manager, reports that the longest run of any single feature is the transcription of the Cecil and Sally feature which has been on KGMB a year and a half, or since the station was established. Its present sponsor is the Mutual" Telephone Company, of Hawaii. Local sponsors at present on regular schedule include : Universal Motors (automobiles) ; Honolulu Business college; Service Cold Storage (ice cream) ; Electric Shop (radio and refrigeration) ; Eastman Kodak Co. (photo supply) ; Willard Battery Co. (batteries) ; Rawley Ice Cream (dairy products) . Mclnerny, Ltd., gives a weeklv stlye show program over KGMB ; an educational program is furnished by the Chamber of Commerce and daily news and stock broadcasts are featured as sustaining studio features. "KSTP Weekly ' ' Growing OBTAINING subscrip tions by radio appeal to listeners, now that they have been deprived of adequate program listings in the St. Paul and Minneapolis newspapers, KSTP, St. Paul, announces that it is adding "by thousands" to the number of readers of its recently established "KSTP Weekly," a neatly printed four -page publication of programs and program notes. The subscription price is $1 a year or five cents an issue. Radio Education Expert Plans Information Aid THE United States Office of Education hopes to become the repository of all information dealing with education by radio and will make this information readily available, according to Dr. C. M. Coon, newly appointed specialist in radio education of the office. Plans now are being formulated for collection of this material, both from commercial stations and educational stations. Mr. Coon added that this new branch of research will be in the nature of an information service, and that the office is particularly interested in keeping the educational and governmental interests of the country posted on the importance of this new educational device. The material will be collected through conferences, public addresses, pamphlets, letters and articles in educational publications, and the daily press. The division will assist also in setting up and evaluating broadcast programs of educational material on invitation of state departments of education. WOW Protests Powers Granted WCAU, WHAM FIRST objections to the Federal Radio Commission's recent high power grants came on October 10 in a petition filed with the Commission by George Sutton, attorney for WOWO, Fort Wayne. It carried a formal protest against the granting of 50 kw. to WCAU, Philadelphia, and 25 kw. to WHAM, Rochester. Such power increases, the petition avers, would do injury to WOWO on 1160 kc, since WCAU on 1170 kc. is only 725 miles away and WHAM on 1150 is only 510 miles away. The petition is not in the nature of an appeal, the official power grants not becoming effective until the Commission's legal division prepares the necessary grounds for decision. Radio Weekly Thriving RADIO DIAL, Cincinnati's radio program weekly, inaugurated when Cincinnati newspapers eliminated program listing's, has reached a circulation of 35,000, according to Frederic W. Ziv, advertising counsel. The subscription rate is six months for $1 and the newsstand price is five cents. Six "Don'ts" Suggested For Speakers on Radio By Production Director TO ENABLE radio speakers to become better acquainted with the peculiarities of the microphone, John Carlile, production director of the CBS, has compiled a list of six important "Don'ts." Here they are: 1. Don't take it for granted you can make a good radio talk without preparation. Every address by radio, if possible, should be preceded by a rehearsal. • 2. Don't orate in the style usual to platform or pulpit. A discourse delivered in a conversational tone, and in such an intimate manner as one would use if he actually entered each of the million homes that may be attuned to the discourse, is much more effective than the one offered in the style of platform or pulpit address. 3. Don't speak from a manuscript that is clipped together. Bring your script with the pages loose. When you finish with a page let it drop to the floor. This eliminates the shuffling and rustling of the paper. 4. Don't clear your throat or cough near the microphone. Both sounds are borne to the radio audience as the growl or roar of some hitherto unheard mammoth of the jungle. 5. Don't hiss your sibilants. The "s" sound executed with the slightest whistle is disagreeable on the radio. Keep the tongue as far as possible from the roof of the mouth and the sibilant may be uttered softly. 6. Don't guess at the number of minutes your speech will require. The speaker in each broadcast has a time allotment which, with the necessary announcements and perhaps some incidental music, should exactly fill the assigned period. The address should therefore be accurately timed by paragraphs and parts of paragraphs, in seconds. California Newspapers Fight Radio Advertising AFTER three months of discussions of various aspects of radio, including one proposal to acquire two radio stations for carrying non-commercial programs to combat "too much commercialism on the air," the California Daily Newspaper Association has appointed a radio committee. It consists of John F. D'Aue, Whittier News, chairman; Charles H. Prisk, Pasadena Star-News; E. A. Benson, Bakersfield Calif ornian; Paul Leake, Woodland Democrat, and B. D. Lane, Santa Barbara News. In the meantime, H. O. Davis, publisher of the Ventura Free Press, is circulating the press of the country with inflammatory literature designed to prove radio's monopoly but openly avowing its purpose of effecting the removal of advertising from the air in order to make room in the overcrowded ether for education, information, the public service, and to protect the country's publishers aeainst unfair competition." The California publisher claims to have more than 500 newspapers enlisted in his campaign. Page 26 BROADCASTING • October 15, 1931