Radio age (Jan-Dec 1926)

RADIO AGE for June, 1926 The Magazine oj the Hour 25 //-American Station Shows Steady Growth WENR Goes Into New Quarters at Kimball Hall By GWEN WAGNER STRICTLY speaking, I am i not what you would call a radio hound. Although it is in line with my duties to keep in touch with the studios I do not, night after night, make the rounds of them and sit wideeyed and palpitating while somebody gets up to sing or sits down to play. There are many things I like fully as well as radio programs. Wrestling matches for example, or good, rousing melodramas. All this probably has no earthly bearing on radio station WENR, Chicago, except that as I sit down to write about this station I feel, stealing over me, an urgent desire to become eloquently enthusiastic about it and I fear this eloquence may, unless it is explained, be taken for the feverish outpourings of an overburdened soul, hopelessly addicted to radio. 8fV E. N. Rauland, president of the All-American Radio Corporation station WENR, Chicago, adjusting the controls of the transmitter So I repeat again. I am not a radio hound. However, I am in a fair way to become one. I am in a fair way to become one of those shameless enthusiasts who rises up in the midst of any gathering and declares emphatically that such and such a station is the best on the air and who's going to dare say it isn't? I wouldn't attempt to say that radio station WENR is the best on the air. How can there be any such classification anyway? How ever, I am prepared to say that radio station WENR is one of the most consistently entertaining stations on the air and that it is one of the fastest growing and hardiest children in the whole kindergarten of studios. Makes Its Goal WENR is a shining example of what can be accomplished with a radio station if you set a goal to shoot at and then keep on shooting. The trouble with a