Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

KLS to Join CBS KSL, Salt Lake City, on Sept. 1 will leave NBC to join the CBS network, William S. Paley, CBS president, announced Aug. 10. It is understood KDYL, present CBS outlet in Salt Lake, will leave the network. Plans of NBC in the Salt Lake territory were not announced. KSL becomes the 92nd station on the CBS network. It goes to 50 kw. between Sept. 15 and Oct. 1. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Classified advertisements in Broadcasting cost 7c per word for each insertion. Cash must accompany order. Forms close 28th and 13th of month preceding issue. Help Wanted Ambitious capable all around radio ex . ecutive wanted. Take charge remote studio ; working interest : city 26,000. Must build talent, programs, sales. One of the finest 100 watt organizations in country ; located in middle west. Box 48, Broadcasting. 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Address Box 41, Broadcasting. Microphone Service Guaranteed Microphone Repairs — Any make or model — 24-hour service. Stretched diaphragm double button repairs $7.50. Others $3.00. Single button repairs $1.50. Write for 1933 Catalog with diagrams. Universal Microphone Co., Ltd., Inglewood, Calif. For Sale Two steel towers two hundred feet high, will sell for about one-fourth original cost. For particulars address Box 45, Broadcasting. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY JANSKY and BAILEY Consulting Radio Engineers Commercial Coverage Surveys Allocation Engineering Station and Studio Installations Engineering Management National Press Bldg. Wash., D. C. Doolittle & Falknor, Inc. Radio Engineering and Manufacturing, Commercial Coverage Surveys, Field Intensity Surveys, Directional Antenna Installation, Complete Engineering S irveys. 1306-8 W. 74th St., CHICAGO, ILL The Other Fellow's Viewpoint . . . 4 'House That Jack Built" To the Editor of Broadcasting: I noted with interest on page 15 of your August 1st issue, the new and unique program that WBAL has produced. I thought you would be interested to know that in March, 1927, we originated this idea for radio broadcasting with a great deal of success and repeated it twice. We started with "The Home Harmonious;" then "The House That Jack Built" and then "Oak Hill Village." We discovered this — that there were a great many thousands of people that went out to see the house and we distributed almost forty thousand of the books, but in each instance the person who received the greatest amount of benefit was the general contractor. While it was good publicity for those who participated, when the house came to be duplicated it was discovered that new sub-contractors and other types of materials were used because of the price proposition. From a revenue standpoint it is successful but it requires a tremendous amount of attention to put it over properly. A couple of men in the organization must necessarily devote their entire time during the construction of the home. We tried to make the results even more tangible by the publication of the books and included the participators advertisement. I would be very happy to give any station that desires it information on what we went through on three of these campaigns. Shepard Broadcasting Service, Inc. Chas. W. Phelan, Director of Sales. Aug. 2, 1932. Boston, Mass. On Widening Band (Continued from page 23) standpoint in accordance with the legal rules now established. The termination of this sort of enterprise may be bad engineering. It has even been claimed that it is bad law. But it is good economics. The day has come when a broadcaster must have security in his business. If he is to serve public interest, convenience and necessity he must also pay his bills and earn a living. As it affects the American broadcaster, any enlargement of the broadcast band in any direction is a return to 1926 conditions, with the additional difficulty that revenue is far less easily obtained today than in the scramble days of broadcasting. Enlarging the broadcast band means renewed and more persuasive agitation by special interests. It means new stations competing in areas now receiving service. It means more men lured into broadcasting from other business or lack of business to establish stations in areas where they are doomed to failure and can only A CLASSIFIED AD WILL DO THE JOB HELP WANTED You may choose a new employee from numerous experienced applicants if you insert a Help Wanted classified ad in BROADCASTING. 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Ci 3AZINE OF THE FIFTH ESTATE spend their broadcasting lifetime in lowering the standards of the industry. It possibly means new broadcasting chains where present chains lose money. Effect on Present Set-up IT DOES not seem justified, in view of the history of broadcasting administration, to expect that the creation of additional facilities will mean the enlargement of assignments to existing stations. Pressure is too great, political demands too violent, special interest too watchful, for such a hope. Every American station is the potential victim of a change in frequency to a band on which new apparatus would be necessary for operation. This, merely in order that its present frequency may be assigned by some other government to a company organized by some one ordered off the air in the United States, or to some frequency-roving foreign broadcasting station which for years has been changing its frequency from one end of the broadcast spectrum to the other according to the success with which stations in this country, suffering interference from it, have had in efforts to persuade it to move. It may be true that our broadcast band is unscientifically located in the radio spectrum, that, for example, moving the entire band 200 kc. to the "north" would bring about desirable technical results; but, if broadcasting is to continue upon the American plan, about which we hear so many fine things, it is now time that broadcasters cease to be the victims of engineering experiment or new legal theories, such as the Davis Amendment, the Fess bill, etc., and be presented with some charter of security so that they may, for at least a few years, go their untrammelled way to render service and ultimately place their stations upon a dividend-paying basis. It is difficult to believe that were this done, the American public would suffer. "This may also be of importance in connection with Canada, should it develop that the recent "Canadian Agreement" is not of legal effect, or to give replacement facilities to broadcasting stations within the United States who will be injured if this agreement becomes the administrative policy of the Canadian Government, but for legal reasons, does not become effective in the United States. The same considerations indicate creation of additional broadcasting facilities for the United States in any event, because, assuming a 10-kc. separation, the maximum proposal being discussed would make approximately 30 additional channels available for broadcasting, and at high power. KSTP Page 30 S FULL TIME NORTHWEST'S DIO STATION BROADCASTING • August 15, 1932