Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1922)

RADIO BROADCAST 97 © Harris & Ewing Senator Harry S. New of Indiana, to whom the distinction of making the first political speech by radio belongs instrumentalities for political ends. It is safe to predict that men of all political parties will be accorded equal privileges, or that none at all will have them. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company has disposed of its interest in the Radio Corporation of America. Dr. Lee De Forest is reported to have invented a method of registering the action and voices of a photoplay in the same film. Nearly two hundred daily newspapers in the United States are now maintaining radio news departments, and the number is constantly growing. The great majority of them are published on the Atlantic Coast. Nearly two score newspapers in New England maintain such departments, fifteen in the Southern states, and eleven enterprising newspapers on the Pacific Coast. R. C. A. Annual Report THE Transatlantic circuits of the Radio Corporation of America are now carrying 20 per cent, of the international message traffic between the United States and Europe, it is stated in the annual report of the corporation to the stockholders. Six direct international radio communifcition circuits are now in operation: Great Britain, opened March i, 1920; Norway, opened May 17, 1920; Germany, two circuits, the first opened August I, 1920, and the second May 19, 192 1; France opened December 14, 1920; Hawaii and Japan, opened March i, 1920. "At the beginning of 192 1," the report states, "your corporation had in operation two Transatlantic high-power transmitting stations, one at New Brunswick, N. J., and the other at Marion, Mass. The station at Tuckerton, N. J. originally constructed by a German company, was of unsatisfactory design to meet the demands of Transatlantic service. The reconstruction of this station by the Radio Corporation of America made it ready for commercial traffic in January, 1921. The Tuckerton station now furnishes the transmitters for use on two distinct European circuits. At Radio Central, Rocky Point, L. 1., construction work commenced during the previous year was completed to such a point that on November 5, 1 92 1, the station was officially opened. When completed, this station will be a multiple station of twelve units, each consisting of a complete transmitter, and an antenna nearly one and a half miles long, supported by six steel towers, each 400 feet in height. The first unit of Radio Central was formally opened by President Harding. The message was acknowledged by 19 countries of the world, including Japan, Australia and New Zealand. "The installation of high-power stations in South America has been inaugurated, by joint arrangement with the French, German and English companies, under which the interests of the four companies are trusteed, with an American chairman chosen by the Radio Corporation of America. A station is now being erected in Argentine, and a concession has been ..^.;..>..v--^ . . ^^^^^ (c) Unilciwuiul & L'nderwood Air Mail Plane Radiophone