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September 24, 1932
THE CURTAIN RISES
The professional agitators are returning to their typewriters after a ra¬ ther quiet summer. The fall crop of anti-commercial radio propaganda bids fair to exceed that of last year if early mimeograph production can be talcen as a fair criterion.
From far off Madrid v/hcre the International Radio-telegraph Convention is in progress, Armstrong Perry, director of the National Committee on Radio in Education, has gone into action with a blast against Anerican broadcasting which received circulation from his Y/ashington Office. It gives some very vagire facts about the Japanese system.
The Anerican Photo-Engravers Association has given circulation to the American Radio Audience League idea originated by Harris K. Randall who "knows the ins and outs of the situation". The Association urges its members to con¬ tribute to Mr. Randall's league to help stop the "racket — for such as it is" which will "drive you and others out of business."
Then S. Howard Evans, New York representative of the Ventura Free Press, in an address before the New York State Publishers Association, took occasion to attack radio advertising and to demand a revision in the government's radio policy. The fundamental basis of radio broadcasting governmental reg^rlation is wrong and makes broadcasting an unfair competitor of the newspaper, he argued.
HALF OF WORLDS STATIONS IN U. S.
That radio broa-dcasting has become a thoroughly established world institu¬ tion, with st£indardized methods and clearly defined problems, is revealed in a study of world radio markets just issued by the Commerce Department. Theoret¬ ical opinions of earlier days, it is pointed out, have given way to a-ccurate knowledge, a development which has served to place the radio industry on a much more solid foundation.
At the beginning of the current year, it is estimated there were in use throughout the world between 30 and 4o million receiving sets, more than half of which were in the United States. This country also possesses about 50 per cent of the I3OO broadcasting stations in the world.
EDUCATORS WANT COMMISSIONERSHIP
It is understood that a group of educators who have been active in denounc¬ ing commercial radio have requested President Hoover to name one of their group to the Federal Radio Commission post vacated by General Charles McK. Saltzman. The President has not yet decided upon a nominee for the vacant post and in the meantime rumors are being circulated that he may decline to make the appointment with a view to eventually reducing the body to a three-man Commission. This rumor has been discredited in informed quarters where it is explained that the President simply intends to take his time in naming a successor to Chairman Saltzman. In the meantime the number of applicants is increasing.