Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

Y. V ARE SITTING IN THE CENTER OF THE WORLD . . . EVERYWHERE is within arm's reach via coordinated telegraph, cable and radio facilities » Whether you would reach somebody five miles away or five thousand miles... whether your message must go by telegraph or cable or radio or by any combination of these three... the great International System of coordinated communication facilities will speed your message to its destination and flash back a reply in a mere matter of minutes. Working hand in hand, the units of the International System are Postal Telegraph, linking 80,000 places in the United States and Canada*... Commercial Cables, reaching Europe, Asia and The Orient... All America Cables, reaching Central America, South America and the West Indies. ..and Mackay Radio, which maintains point-to-point servicesinadditiontoreachingshipsatsea. Use Postal Telegraph and the International System to reach anybody... anywhere... quickly. *ln Canada, through the Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraphs. © To Telephone a Telegram, Cablegram or Radiogram .in si call ''POSTAL TELEGRAPH" or dial your local Postal Telegraph office. Charges will appear on your local telephone bill. THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM Tostal Telegraph Commercial Cables Oil Qmerica Cables Mr. Caldwell Political Pressure Held Radio Menace Caldwell Cites "Destruction"" Of Five Clear Channels CHARGING that the pressure of political expediency is slowly but surely undermining what he regards as the very backbone of broadcasting, viz., the clear channels, 0. H. Caldw e 11 , former Radio Commissioner and now a radio editor, makes a plea in the July issue of ELECTRONICS for "redblooded fighters among radio engineers and industry leaders who will get up on their hind legs and battle for the future of good reception and good listening conditions in every home on the American continent." He declares that already five of the 40 clear channels set up by the Radio Commission in 1928 "are gone as 'rural service' channels because of other stations authorized to operate on the same wave lengths, making that many clear channels useless to serve the millions of small-town and farm population which have no other avenue of radio service except through clear channels." All Vitally Concerned "EVERY RADIO engineer, every radio manufacturer, every man in the radio industry or trade is vital ly concerned in this destruction of the great radio arteries by which, only, can broadcasting be carried to the vast areas outside of the immediate vicinity of large cities. "The breakdown of the clearchannel structure started when the owners of WGY at Schenectady carried to the Supreme Court their case demanding the unrestricted full-time operation of WGY and KGO at San Francisco on the same wave length — without synchronized frequency control between the two stations as proposed by the Radio Commission. "With this entering wedge for the destruction of sound radio principles authorized by the highest court in the land and on motion of an organization believed to be concerned with the protection of good engineering, the subsequent crumbling of the clear channel structure has been rapid." Speaking of the "destruction" of the clear channel assigned to KJR, Seattle, by the authorization of a 5 kw. transmitter permit to WCFL, Chicago, Mr. Caldwell said: "Here was an instance in which the majority of the members of the Radio Commission, sworn to protect the radio rights of the listeners, gave no heed to the loss of radio facilities by remote millions in the mountain area which needs broadcasting service most, and yielded to the importunities of the Senators who control the confirmation of the Radio Commissioners." The State Department is criticized for assenting to the simultaneous operation of a 5 kw. station in Novia Scotia on the same channel as used by KNX, Los Angeles, and for sharing of the 1100 (Continued on page 2i) NATURE COMPENSATES IN THE MIDDLE NORTHWEST . • Last year drought and grasshoppers devastated the middle northwest. Crops were very short and in many places, entirely wiped out. • This year Nature comes into her own, and with plenty of moisture, sunshine, and a good soil, combined with the best farmers in the world, crops are coming along beautifully. The prospects are for a bumper crop. • This should be interesting to advertisers because when crops are good, farmers are cheerful. When farmers are cheerful, they buy the things they need for their living as well as for their comfort. • Advertise in the middle west this year and reap a harvest of orders, as the farmer reaps his harvest of I produce. To reach these farmers, the logical medium i WNAX YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 1000 Watts 570 Kc. 526 Metern Western Electric Equipment Throughout mackay Hadio Page 22 BROADCASTING • August 1, 1932