Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

^IiEGRAPH m..tkroug • .Coordinated Communications that COVER THE WORLD # Across the town or across the state . . . across the country or across the seven seas... it makes no difference when you use Postal Telegraph. For Postal Telegraph is part of the great International System, which provides fast, accurate, dependable message communication to the entire world through the perfect coordination of telegraph, cable and radio facilities. Postal Telegraph reaches 80,000 places in the United States and Canada.* Working in conjunction with the other members of the International family, it reaches Europe, Asia and The Orient through Commercial Cables ; Central America, South America and the West Indies through All America Cables ; and ships at sea via Mackay Radio. Use Postal Telegraph. As a member of the International System, it is the only American telegraph company that offers a world-wide service of coordinated record communications under a single management. *In Canada, through the Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraphs. THE INTERNATIONAL. SYSTEM Tostal Telegraph Commercial WjfS/w Oil Qmenca Cables ^Sffi Cables ttlaekay "Radio More Educationals Turn Commercial TO THE LONG list of educational stations which have gone commercial in recent months may be added WAPI, Birmingham, clear channel outlet authorized to increase its power to 25 kw. and KUOA, Fayetteville, Ark., 1 kw. regional. WAPI, formerly operated by the state in connection with three of its colleges, goes commercial June 1, with Ormond 0. Black, of the Protective Life Insurance Co., as manager. Carol Gardner, former manager, becomes program director. The station is incorporated as WAPI Broadcasting Co., and the transfer has been approved by the Radio Commission. KUOA, licensed to the University of Arkansas, was granted authority by the Commission May 20 to assign its license voluntarily to the Southwestern Hotel Co. Meanwhile the Commission has granted authority to a number of educational and institutional stations to suspend operation during the summer. On May 24 this authority was given KOCW. Chickasha, Okla.. operated by the Oklahoma College for Women; KBPS, Portland, Ore., operated bv Benson Polytechnic Institute, and WHAZ, Troy, New York, operated by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Canada Passes Bill (Continued from page 13) and of the broadcasting: industry in the United States require that the United States delegation to the International Radio Conference at Madrid in September, 1932, shall be guided by the following' principles: 1. The delegation is not bound by the proposals submitted in the name of the United States about April 1, 1931, in so far as those proposals are inconsistent with allocating additional frequency bands below 550 kc. to broadcasting. 2. The delegation should take the proposals of the International Broadcasting Union (i. e., that the bands 150 kc— 285 kc. and 370 kc— 460 kc. be allocated to broadcasting) as the basis for its position, qualified only by consideration of the legitimate needs of air and maritime navigation and other services which have a real need for the frequencies in question and wThich can not be carried on either elsewhere in the radio spectrum or by wire. 3. The delegation should refrain from proposing, and should, so far as possible, avoid the allocation of frequencies in the band above 1500 kc. (e. g., 1500 kc. — 1700 kc.) for ordinary broadcasting in North America (as distinguished from frequencies below 550 kc.) because of the well-known and generally recognized unsuitability of the higher frequencies for broadcasting. 4. The delegates should refrain from opposing, and should support, any revision of the International Radio Convention necessary to give to associations of broadcasters the same status as is now enjoyed at meetings of the International Technical Consulting Commission by private operating enterprises. Tostephony' Is Name Given Sound Recording A NEW TERM for the electrical recording and reproduction of sound was coined by J. E. Otterson, president of Electrical Research Products, Inc., in a recent, address before the Electrical Association of New York, Inc., at the; Hotel Astor, New York. The term is "postephony," which he translates as "later sound" or "sound after." Discussing "A Decade of Progress in the Recording and Reproducing of Sound," Mr. Otterson traced the evolution of sound recording and stated: "Our present day instruments are perfect enough to record and reproduce all of the I frequencies which the human ear can hear with a resulting improvement in naturalness." Music Sales Good (Continued from page 13) ties. As cash customers many of them are not all that is desired. They never seem to go inside the store. But the proprietors never appear anxious to ask them to move on. A crowd standing outside a store — a music store, at any rate — has its advertising value perhaps, although, strange to relate, the romantic youths often so jam the immediate approach to the little shop that it is as much as the genuine cash customer, bent on making a purchase, can do to elbow his way inside. In the old days a piano player was frequently stationed inside, vamping out the hits with a key, | banging assiduously, but the own I ers evidently found it cheaper and just as efficient to employ a phono r graph. Popularity Sans Fame CONSIDERING the amount of pleasure a large section of humanity gets from popular songs, there is no doubt that there is much in the song writer's present-day peevishness. Thousands hum his tunes — become ecstatic over them. Romances, marriages even, are made and broken through their medium. And in nine cases out of ten the happy couple, joined through a mutual affection for the air of some "sweetheart" melody, never know who wrote it — words or music. That is unless the piece happens to be the production of a very well known house. Not that the song writers would mind this oblivion so much if financial returns were better. But they say that nowadays a "hit" may return its composer only $2,000 from sheet-music sales during its three to five months' existence, whereas years ago the same song would have produced $10,000. It may be that what has come to be reckoned a "hit" today is not quite the same as it was. Many poets whose names and fame are known to every one are but seldom read, and then without enthusiasm; but the song composer, purveyor of fun and frolic to the masses, remains unknown. Page 26 BROADCASTING • June 1, 1932 ?i