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RADIO REVUE
1929 the Greatest Year
in the
History
of
Radio
By MERLIN H. AYLESWORTH
President, National Broadcasting Company
WIDENING the horizons of broadcasting to the point at which it is no longer visionary to think of presenting programs to the whole world has made 1929 the most significant year in the short history of radio entertainment.
A year ago we felt that we had seen a notable advance when the establishment of permanent trans-continental networks made it possible to present to the whole nation a program of entertainment or an import-ant event from almost any point within the nation, on short notice.
This year we have made a beginning in international broadcasting. The experiments of our engineers, working with the engineers of European broadcasting companies, have convinced us that it should be possible to exchange programs across the Atlantic on a fairly regular schedule. We are working at present with England, Holland and Germany, and the coming year should see this work bearing fruit in the form of regularly excha n g e d programs.
While we do not now c o ntemplate goi ng beyond Europe for international programs, it is quite possible that our engineers will find it practicable to begin definite experiments with picking up programs from the other side of the earth.
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this year's programs from the other side of the Atlantic, a definite improvement could be noted. The National Broadcasting Company's first attempt of this nature was on February 1. On that day our listeners heard an orchestra playing in Queen's Hall, London. Atmospherics were.' bad but, when we rebroadcast the Thanksgiving service for the recovery of King George, reception was improved.
By the time we picked up the Schneider Cup Races on September 7, the engineers had reached the point where they could make every word heard, and even allow our listeners to hear the motors of the speeding planes. Einstein's speech from Berlin on October 21 was marred to some extent by static, but the special program fcr America, broadcast from Huizen, Holland, five days later, came in as clearly as if it had come by wire from a point in the United States. Who can tell what advances may be made next year?
The thrill of hearing voices and music on the other side of the Atlantic was but one phase of activity in the greatest year of radio. For the first time, the ceremonies incident to the inauguration of a President of the Mike the United States were carried