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Radio Broadcast
This event took place just about the hour that the Times was going to press. The news was duly printed on the first page, giving the paper a "beat" such as seldom falls to any publication in this day of news organization. The Times station also has been first with a number of sos messages and it figures daily in the dissemination of world news.
NEWSPAPERS INSTALL A JOINT STATION
PLAINLY the early success of the Times with radio dispatches was not to go unobserved. The American Newspaper Publishers Association, working through a special committee, determined to experiment with radio transmission. The Times and the Chicago Tribune have been prominent supporters of the plan, which resulted in the erection of a station at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, for transatlantic work. This station is just across the bay from Halifax and affords the advantage of acknowledging radio dispatches by means of the imperial cable ending at Halifax.
In February of 1922, the station began operation and now is in direct communication daily with four of the big plants in Europe, those at Leafield, and Northolt, England, Lyons, France, and Coltano, Italy. A new station is now under construction near by for the retransmission of dispatches which come
to Dartmouth. So far the traffic has been handled by telegraph and telephone wires, but it is planned to send the news direct to subscribers from the new plant.
This Dartmouth station and that of the Times work in close cooperation, one relieving the other when storms or other causes render reception difficult. The two of them would seem to have proved that radio transmission across the Atlantic is a thoroughly practical undertaking for private newspaper organizations. Such plants also afford some measure of protection in the despatch of news which may have great value. It is to be believed that the next year or two will witness further enterprise in this direction.
The New York World, also interested in the Nova Scotia plant, has conducted wide experiments in the transmission of photographs by radio. This subject has had attention from the World for several years and the photographs already received warrant belief that the World may install a station one of these days exclusively for the purpose of transmitting radio photographs.
Extensive experiments have been conducted by the International News Service, one of the Hearst organizations, for the purpose of automatic reception and elimination of static, doubtless with the view to installing a trans
THE TRANSATLANTIC NEWSPAPER RADIO STATION At Halifax, Nova Scotia, as it looked under construction in 1922. J. A. Burch, engineer, and F. E. Meinholtz, chief operator, New York Times, are seated, left to right. This station is maintained by a syndicate of about nine of the largest newspapers in the United States purely to receive press messages addressed to it from foreign countries. The messages are then forwarded to the supporting newspapers by the usual methods. Little transmitting is done from this site except to acknowledge messages and to get corrections. A power of about ten kw. is employed