Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1925)

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The March of Radio 43 station weaf. The public's demand for jazz has greatly decreased, he asserts, as evidenced by the letters received from the station's listeners. Of the many thousands of listeners who now write in, by far the most want good music, he says; and thanks be, say we, that the managers are waking up to the fact that the whining, croaking, saxophone with its associated " agonyproducing pieces of barbarism, are due for the discard, as far as the radio listener is concerned. Mr. Holman evidently thinks there has been a change of appreciation on the part of the listeners, but we doubt this very much. The letters no doubt indicate such to be the fact, but it seems more likely that the admirer of jazz would write enthusiastic letters to the broadcaster more often than a lover of Chopin and Mozart. The appreciator of jazz is the one who makes the most noise, just as a dozen wild American-Irish would make enough noise against such a speaker as Mr. Lloyd George to drown out the approbation of the remaining 2000 in the audience. This has probably been the case with the radio audience — those who wanted good music are the quiet type who suffered much and long before remonstrating against the finally unbearable monotonies of much of the modern jazz. What the Radio Corporation Did in 1924 SEVERAL points in the annual report of President Harbord of the Radio Corporation for the year 1924 demand comment. We think it is only fair to give the Radio Corporation credit for being the first to inaugurate broadcast concerts by wellknown phonograph recording artists. The idea, which was later taken up by the American CHARTING THE DEPTH OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN With the sonic depth finder, a new application of well-known radio principles. The apparatus projects a vibration which follows through the water to the ocean bed; it is then reflected back. The elapsed time is measured from which the depth of water can be calculated. Lieut. Clore of the U. S. S. Pioneer is shown in the radio cabin of his vessel operating the depth finder Telephone and Telegraph Company with much success, originated in an agreement between the Radio Corporation and the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. This innovation in broadcasting programs was an inspiration, and it is a pleasure to record our appreciation of its inception. In speaking of the value of the radio business, General Harbord made the interesting statement that for every dollar spent on musical instruments of all kinds, phonographs, pianos, and organs, seventy-five cents was spent on radio. Radio business was about three-quarters that of the entire jewelry business of the United States. In transoceanic traffic, radio carried between twenty and thirty per cent, of European traffic, and fifty per cent, of the trans-pacific messages. Apparently the proportion of radio to cable messages is not changing very rapidly, as it is our recollection that about the same proportion existed during the previous year. Radio Raises Cable Earnings INSTEAD of taking business away from the transoceanic cables, the development of radio appears actually to have put money into the coffers of the cable companies, according to a statement of Clarence H. Mackay. Mr. Mackay says that the Commercial Cable