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Broadcasting Nearly to the Arctic
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The Edmonton Journal Has Established a Station in Alberta, Canada, and Prophesies that the Hudson's Bay Company Will Do Likewise
By FRASER M. GERRIE
EDMONTON, Alberta, boasts the world's farthest north radio broadcasting station. Hunt up the family atlas, O ye blase New Yorkers who nightly tune up your instruments and "listen in" on whatever may be winging its way through the ether in your immediate vicinity, and who imagine perhaps that this modern miracle has not extended to the uttermost parts of this terrestrial sphere. Not that Edmonton can exactly be classed in the "uttermost parts," but just thumb over the pages of your atlas and appreciate how the great worldwide radio audience is extending in an ever-widening circle. That this radio circle has already extended fully a thousand miles north of Edmonton, and not such a great leap from the arctic circle, is already a matter of common knowledge. "Carpentier knocked out in the fourth round" was the message flashed through thousands of miles of air from Jersey City July 2, 1921, and almost ere the fatal word" ten" had died away the news that Jack Dempsey had retained his fistic crown was known at Fort Norman, a thousand miles and more north of Edmonton.
But it is only within the last four months that radio broadcasting on a commercial scale has been started in Alberta. The "farthest north" broadcasting station is located in the office of The Edmonton Journal, and every afternoon and evening since May ist, residents of Alberta within a radius of five hundred miles of the city have been delighted with these nightly entertainments. The pioneer Marconi set installed last
May has given splendid satisfaction, and the entertainments have been heard as far away as Victoria, B. C., and in practically every part of the province.
Lest a wrong impression be gathered, it should be stated that radio in the far North, a thousand and more miles from Edmonton, is far from being at the stage where lonely trappers, and prospectors gather in some
THE ANTENNA ABOVE THE EDMONTON JOURNAL BUILDING IN EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA