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The Listener's Point of View
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[point, are now broadcast, or to see the opera [to which we listen at the receiving set, or the [orchestra.
Will this predicted marvel work both ways? [Will the broadcast directors be able to watch ttheir listeners-in? It is to be hoped so. For Ithe quickest and surest way to bring about [the much needed reform in radio programs is por the broadcast directors to see how their [programs are being received. Some of them [would experience a tremendous shock.
\Yhy They Say "Please Stand By"
HAVE you ever wondered why the broadcast announcer, when there is a wait between numbers, always tells you to ["Please stand by"?
Why, "stand by"? That ancient bos'on's jjwarning?
Mr. Rhodehamel, of station KGO, at Oakland, California, explains that this term and [various others used by broadcast announcers, Lame into use in radio stations because nearly ell broadcasting operators have been to sea as
ship operators. He states that, at KGO, the operators alway refer to the floor as the " deck." Walls are spoken of as " bulkheads." Windows are called "ports." Operators do not work so many hours, they "stand watch." The book recording transmission and changes of apparatus is called "the log." The clock isn't a clock, but a chronometer, all rigged up in gimbals to take care of the swaying of the ship, in the regular little brown mahogany case. Not all broadcasting stations are as nautical as this, but from every one of them you will hear the old call of the sea, "Stand by!"
There is a Demand for Education by Radio
THE lectures on music appreciation given Friday evenings at 7:30, through station WBZ, by Professor Stuart Mason of the New England Conservatory of Music, have been a pleasing diversion to some listeners-in and, no doubt, a source of much desired instruction to many more.
But, as these lectures, which are illustrated at
Thomas Coke Knight, New York BERNHARD LEVITOW
And his Hotel Commodore Orchestra scheduled for 200 radio concerts from wjz and WJY this season. They play much beautiful music and play it remarkably well