Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

LAST CALL for Frequency Monitors FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION APPROVAL NO. 1452 June 21, deadline for General Order 116, will soon be here. Will your station be allowed to continue operating? It will if you have ordered General Radio frequency-monitoring equipment, because General Radio has Federal Radio Commission approval and General Radio is making deliveries on schedule. Here is a summary of the reasons for your choice of General Radio. No other monitor has all of these advantages: 1. General Radio makes a definite accuracy guarantee, a promise of performance that has been proved by actual routine operation in almost 100 stations. 2. The General Radio monitor has the large visible meter showing at all times direction as well as the amount of a frequency drift. 3. The General Radio monitor mounts either on a standard relay rack or on a small desk-type rack. 4. The price is $550. Liberal discount for cash or terms can be arranged. G ORDER TODAY BY TELEGRAPH COLLECT ENERAL RADIO CO. CAMBRIDGE A, MASSACHUSETTS Many Stations Still Wide on Deviation Forty Per Cent Don't Comply With G. O. 116 in April MORE THAN 40 per cent of the country's broadcasting stations measured by the radio division of the Department of Commerce at the end of April had failed to comply with Rule 145, which after June 22 limits transmitter deviation to 50 cycles, according to a report just released. Of the 458 stations checked, 273 or 59.6 per cent came within the new restriction. This was an improvement of 6.1 per cent over the February record, the next best month. Seventy-seven deviated less than 100 cycles, 55 less than 200 cycles and 53 more than 200 cycles. Following are the stations which kept within 50 cycles: KABC. KCRC, KDFN, KDKA, KERN, KFAB. KFAC. KFBK. KFDM. KFEQ. KFH. KFI. KFJI. KFJR, KFJZ, KFKU, KFKX-KYW. KFLV. KFOR, KFOX. KFPM, KFPY, KFRC, KFSD. KFUO, KFVD. KFWB, KFWI, KFXD, KFXF, KFXM. KFYR, KGCA, KGCX, KGER, KGEZ, KGFF, KGFJ, KGFK. KGGF, KGIZ. KGKO. KGKX. KGKY. KGO. KGRS, KGVO, KGW, KHQ. KIT, KJBS. KLO. KLRA. KLX. KLZ, KMA, KMAC, KMBC. KMED. KMJ. KMO, KMOX, KMPC. KMTR. KNX. KOA. KOAC, KOH, KOIL, KOIN, KOL, KOMO, KOY, KPJM, KPO. KPPC, KQW, KRE, KRKD, KRLD, KRSC. KSAC. KSD. KSL, KSOO. KSTP, KTAB, KTAR, KTAT, KTBR. KTBS. KTHS. KTM, KTRH. KTSA, KTSM. KVI, KVOO. KWG. KWJJ, KXRO, KXYZ. KYA. WAAB. WAAF, WAAT, WAAW, WABC-WBOQ, WABZ, WADC, WAPI, WASH-WOOD. WAWZ. WBAA. WBAL. WBAP. WBBL. WBBR. WBEN, WBHS. WBMS. WBNX. WBSO. WBT, WBTM, WBZ-WBZA. WCAC. WCAH, WCAJ, WCAO, WCBA, WCCO, WCFL, WCHI. WCLS. WCMA. WCRW, WCSH. WDAE. WDBJ. WDOD. WDSU. WEAF, WEAN, WEBQ, WEBR. WEDC. WEEI. WEHC. WELL. WENR, WERE, WFAA, WFBL, WFEA, WFI. WFIW, WGCM, WGCP, WGES, WGH. WGN-WLIB. WGR. WGY. WHAD. WHAM. WHAS, WHAZ, WHBU, WHBY, WHDH, WHEC, WHFC, WHK. WHN, WHO. WHP. WIBO, WIBW, WIBX, WINS, WIP-WFAN, WIS, WISN, WIBG. WJAR, WJAS, WJAX, WJAY, WJBW. WJDX, WJKS, WJSV, WJTL, WJW, WJZ, WKAR. WKAV. WKBB. WKBF, WKBH, WKBI. WKBN, WKRC, WKY, WKZO, WLBZ, WLEY, WLIT, WLS, WLTH, WLVA, WLW. WMAL. WMAQ, WMBC, WMBD. WMBQ, WNAC-WBIS, WNAX, WNBH, WNBW, WNYC, WOAI, WOAX, WOC, WODA. WOI. WOKO, WOL. WOPI. WOR. WORC-WEPS, WOS, WOW, WOWO, WPAD, WPCH, WPEN, WPG, WPRO-WPAW. WQAM, WQBC, WRAW, WRAX, WRC, WRDO, WREN, WRHM. WRJN, WRR. WRUF, WRVA, WSAI, WSAN, WSAR, WSB, WSBC, WSM. WSUI, WSYB, WTAG, WTAM, WTAR-WPOR, WTAW, WTIC, WTJS, WTMJ, WTOC, WWJ, WWRL, WWVA, WXYZ. Educational Programs (Continued from page 11) important as competition in the field increases. It is here, in my opinion, that educational broadcasts are rendering their greatest service to the station. Such an educational series as that of the American School of the Air provides station managers with a valuable means of contacting the cultural elements in their communities, generally not reached through commercial programs. Two nation-wide contests sponsored by the American School of the Air have been used by certain stations with interesting results locally. Thus, a George Washington Art Contest — part of a series of Art Appreciation broadcasts — was in some cases, tied up with local Bicentennial activities and aroused much community interest. Exhibits of original school work inspired by radio lessons have been held in libraries and art centers in several cities. An Edwin Markham Poetry Contest brought national response, and stations covering the "home towns" of those receiving honorable mention over the air, presented the winners in local broadcasts. Pupils Better Read THE INTEREST of public libraries was stirred by one station which instigated a statistical study of the relative outside reading record of children in radio-equipped schools and non-radio schools. It was found that pupils in schools receiving the American School of the Air programs had an outside reading record six times that of pupils in the best non-radio schools and 33 times that of the poorest non-radio school. Summing up then, educational broadcasts such as those of the American School of the Air, in addition to achieving their primary purpose in the educational field, can become a distinct commercial asset and contribute much to the jj prestige of the station and thus to the network as a whole if properly , valued and publicized by stations 1 using them. THE BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation moved on May 14 from Savoy Hill to the new Broadcasting House in London. The dedicatory program was carried to this country via BBC's short-wave sta ; tion, G5SW, Chelmsford, and re broadcast by the NBC-WJZ net. Frequency Measuring Service Accurate measurements of your station frequency when you need them most. Do you comply with General Order 116? JUNE 22 WILL SOON BE HERE. R. C. A. COMMUNICATIONS, Inc. A RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA SUBSIDIARY 66 BROAD STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. Page 24 BROADCASTING • June 1, 1932 j