Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

RADIO BROADCAST NEWS SECTION. New Broadcast Programs GULBRANSEN: Beginning Saturday Eve- ning, October 5th, this company inaugur- ated a series of symphony concerts by the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Henry Hadley. The program is broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting system for one half hour every Saturday evening, from 9:30 to 10:00 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. PHILCO: Three concerts by the Philadel- phia Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski and sponsored by the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company will be broadcast over the air on October 6th, November 3rd, and December 8th. : Each Monday evening the CeCo Manufacturing Company sponsors a pro- gram by the CeCo Couriers over twenty- two stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Production Figures The Arcturus Radio Tube Company broke all previous production records in August by packing a total of 776,931 tubes. This represents a considerable increase over the average monthly output of $303,697 for the first three months of the year and is more than 1200 per cent, greater than the monthly production figure of 60,000 tubes for 1928. Production in the various Arcturus plants ran as fol- lows: January, 326,601; February, 248,819: March, 335,672; April, 334,330; May, 431,800; June, 440,863; July, 542,781; August, 776,931. Arcturus now occupies 195,000 square feet of floor space, com- pared with 35,700 feet in January. More than 50 per cent, of the machinery for the new plant is in operation. Gulbransen's production schedule was advanced to 1000 per day in October according to an announcement by John S. Gorman, vice president of the company. The Earl Radio Corporation made and delivered 13,975 sets in June, 23,564 in July, and August production was expected to be 32.000 sets. In September production will be stepped up to 40,000 receivers. TV. Y. Association Rating Servicemen The Radio Service Managers' Association, 1400 Broadway, New York, has begun a system of ex- amining, rating, and placing serv- icemen. The first few weeks of operation have given the following results: 110 men examined, 69 passed, 41 failed, 21 placed. The men who passed the examination were rated as follows: 9 class A, 31 class B; 29 class C. G. C. Kirchoff is executive secre- tary and will be interested to hear from other associations and those interested in the work the R.S.M.A. has in progress. Rating cards are issued to the successful examinees. "Of those who failed to pass our ex- amination," says Mr. Kirchoff, "the number who claim to have been em- ployed as servicemen is surprising." News of the F.R.T.A. "One of the chief purposes of the Fed- erated Radio Trade Association" accord- ing to Michael Ert, president, "is to assist local associations to organize in their own localities. Through the medium of booklets outlining the organization of a local radio trade association and on running a local radio show, we have been successful in or- ganizing associations in 45 communities. NEW MEMBERS FOR F.R.T.A. Four new local associations which have joined the Federated Radio Trade As- sociation are: Wichita Radio Trade Ass'n., Curt Hubbell, secretary, Wichita, Kansas; Radio Dealers Ass'n. of Northern Ken- tucky, C. M. Johnson, secretary, Coving- ton, Ky.; Des Moines Radio Merchants' Ass'n., J. T. Schilling, secretary, Des Moines, la., and the Mahoning Valley Radio Dealers' Ass'n., W. H. Conklin, secretary, Youngstown, O. With these additions, there are now 31 local trade associations with membership in the F.R.T.A. Initiation fees for local associa- tions are $1 and dues $25 annually with the privileges of sending two voting dele- gates to annual meetings. Reproduces Current Radio Poster for Dealers' Meeting F. M. Dinan, ad- vertising mana- ger (right), and R. Haynes, ser- vice manager, New Haven Elec- tric Company, created quite a stir in Philadel- phia recently by reproducing in complete detail one of the cur- rent A tiva ter Kent posters on the occasion of the visit of the New Haven Elec- tric Company and 250 of their dealers to the At- u a iff Kent plant. The Radio Wholesalers' Association an- nounce the addition of the following new members: Charles C. Hicks and W. H. Nolan, North Central Distributors Inc., Minneapolis; J. M. Camp, Brown-Camp Hardware Co., Des Moines la.; Earl R. Goodin, Goodin Radio Corp., Wichita, Kans.; E. L. Kern, Kern-O'Neill Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; C. A. Winne, Stew- art-Warner Sales Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; George A. Michel, The Belmont Corp, Minneapolis, Minn.; L. B. McCreary, Western Radio Co., Kansas City, Mo. The total membership of the association is now more than 200. OBSOLETE SETS BURNED Local trade associations in more than ten cities, in cooperation with the Fed- erated Radio Trade Ass'n, staged radio bonfires to demonstrate the uselessness of old battery sets. Cities in which the events were held include San Francisco, St. IxMiis, Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, and Covington. Dealers cooperate in collect- ing the sets, frequently from their own stocks, hold a parade to the spot for the fire, and the Mayor of the city is invited to touch the first match. Newspapers have been generous in their cooperation, some special radio fire sections have been pub- lished, and movie news reels have taken pictures of the event. The local associations are plug- ging the idea that "old sets are obsolete" and linking that thought with the slogan "The Modern Home Needs a Modern Radio." Charles Eisler, Eisler Elec. Corp. Change of Address Jenkins & Adair, Inc., Chicago manu- facturers of special audio apparatus for broadcasting and sound pictures, have moved to 3333 Belmont Avenue where their office and factory is housed. E. T. Cunningham has rehoused its Pacific Coast headquarters in a new building at 325 Ninth Street, San Fran- cisco. Recently Issued Patents No. 1,724,960, System of Modulation. James E. Parker, Washington, D. C. Filed March 1, 1923. No. 1,724,965, Amplifying Circuits. Fran- cis X. Rettenmeyer, Montclair, N. J., assignor to Western Electric Com- pany, Inc., New York, N. Y. Filed May 11, 1926. No. 1,724.987, Selective Constant Resis- tance Network. Otto J. Zobel, New York, N. Y., assignor to American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Filed April 13, 1928. No. 1,725,433, Band-Receiving Systems. Frederick K. Vreeland, Montclair, N. J., assignor to Vreeland Corpora- tion, New York, N. Y. Filed August 1, 1927. No. 1,725.710, System and Method of Television. John Hays Hammond, Jr., Gloucester, Mass. Filed August 15, 1923. Patent Suit No. 1,448,279, Pridham & Jensen, Electro- dynamic receiver, filed June 8, 1929, D. C., N. J., Doc. E 3856, The Mag- navox Co. v. O'Neil Mfg. Corp. 34 NOVEMBER 1929