Radio Broadcast (Nov 1926-Apr 1927)

APRIL, 1927 THE USELESS NEWSPAPER RADIO PROGRAM 569 different now. But anyone that has waltzed round the floor with the girl he adored to the strains of the Beautiful Blue Danube, The Sirens, Illusion, etc., sure will stick out his ears when he hears one of these on the air. The Highly Condensed Newspaper Radio Program WHAT I crave," writes Pro Molto Gigolo, "is the job of the fellow whose daily task it is to make that list of agate lines telling us what to expect to-night from this, that and the other of twenty to fifty radio stations. Such ingenuity! Such a vocabulary! Such a wealth of synonyms, antonyms — all breeds of nyms! "Look at these examples of the art that is his. Here, for instance, against 7 o'clock, what does his talent dictate should be announced? 7:00 p. m. — Musical program "Then — look at 7:15! Do you see? Begin to appreciate his tremendous fecundity? Does he repeat himself? Ever? Is it 'musical program' again? No, sir! It is: 7:15 p. M. — Program of music "But — go down the list. See for yourself. Appreciate for the first time, perhaps, the presence of unpretentious, unannounced genius in your midst — and realize how, at last, newspaper work calls with throbbing gulps to my latent, atrophied abilities — too late, perhaps! Alas, perhaps too late! "Here! Read — and weep with me: 7:25 p. m. — Tea music 7:30 p. M. — Dinner music 8:45 p. M. — Orchestral 9:00 p. m. — Musical ensemble 9:15 p. M. — Vocal music 9:25 p. m. — Music by voices 9:30 p. m. — Male Quartet FORD and Glenn, formerly of wls, are now on the staff of wlw. They are on the air at noon, every week day, with a "dinner bell" feature intended especially for the farmers. Every night except Friday, Cincinnati's silent night, they stage their justly renowned "Lullaby Time," at 8:00 Eastern Standard Time. Their Sunday night programs are at 7:20 and 10:00 and they are scheduled further for two afternoon programs a week. WGN is repeating its series of "Old Time Prize Fights." If you did not hear them last year they are well worth watching for. Various championship bouts of the last decade are re-created in the broadcasting studio and Mr. Ryan's announcing effectively puts across the illusion that the battles are actually taking place. WOW is conducting a world's championship laughing contest. The contest is open to all men, women, and children who think they have world-beating laughs. Which strikes us as a swell idea, providing the laughs still sound like laughs after their journey through the ether — which is not always the case. WEAF was on the air 3834 hours and 45 minutes during 1926, an average of 10J hours every day during the year. j THUMB HAIL REVIEWS j WOC — The Moline Plowboys singing nice, sugary harmony — nothing subtle but good straightforward stuff. WBZ — John Charles Thomas singing in a Maxwell Coffee Concert. An excellent baritone voice, and one well adapted to broadcasting. WQJ — Jimmy Maloney and Harry Geise in yiddish dialect tomfoolery and nonsense songs. First rate comedians. The soulful ditty " By the Side of the Omelette Sea" being especially amusing and worth repeating. WBBM — Lee Sims sitting at piano and rambling from one tune to another with nice modulations between, and fancy variations and improvisations. The station announcer guessing at the titles as the pianist proceeded. WJZ — "Don Amaizo, the Wizard," a new series of broadcasts dealing with a character who is supposed to be mute, answering questions and telling his own story through a violin "gifted with the power of speech." Terrible. Too much talk and not very good violin playing. KFQB — After telling us their telephone number and assuring us that out-of-town listeners could communicate with them by Western Union or Postal Telegraph, and further, after dedicating the next number to some lady in Waco, we were rewarded with a violin soloist playing at "Mother Machree"! WEAF — (and everywhere else on the dial!) The Chicago Civic Opera broadcasting the "Garden Scene" from its performance of Faust on the stage of the Auditorium Theater. The most ambitious, and so far most successful attempt yet made to broadcast opera from an opera house. A thorough technical preparation was made, fifteen microphones were employed, and wires carried the broadcast to New York City from whence it was distributed as far west as Kansas City and south to whas, wsb, and wsm. The orchestra came through in excellent fashion, the singers better than ever before, but still with a trace of the mugginess incidental to all theater broadcasts. It is our pessimistic guess that broadcasts of large bodies of singers in large auditoriums will never be an unqualified success. The studio broadcasts of the same thing, even with a less redoubtable roster of stars, are generally pleasanter to listen to. "Then, marveling this far, look at this next touch! Genius, I call it! 1:40 p. M. -String "Now, for suspense, can you better that? All accomplished by one word, toe! Can't you picture every one of New York's 1,139,623 radio listeners chaffing at their dials — impatient for 9:40 to tick around — that they may know, at last, what that one word means — whether it refers to beans, Christmas bundle wrappings, or whether it is just the lister's little practical joke. "Are you convinced? Run down the list — of each station — each with different programs, thereby multiplying the demand upon the ingenious lister to avoid repetition. And this every day! Can he hold up long under it r 9:50 p. m. — Concert orchestra 9:55 p. M. — Trio 10:00 p. M. — Concert 10:10 p. M. — Instrumental trio 10:20 P. M. — Choral 10:30 p. M. — Musical group 10:45 p. M. — Ensemble 10:55 p. M. — Duets 11:00 p. m. — Dance Orchestra 1 1 :30 p. m. — Orchestra for dancing 12:00 M. — Orchestra program 12:30 A. M. — Test program — music Early programs to-morrow 10:00 a. m. — Program for musical students 1 1 :oo A. M. — Talk with music "To this age's great men, add the first professional program lister! To our newspapers, the gratitude of this one humble aspirant, for devoting their white space at last to a fling in the realm of imaginative service." PHONE. RECTOR . Phoenix BHB .Non Smut Hfflri Carbon Papers The Kind the Copy's Always Clear E. L. COTTELL, Inc. 35 Broadway, New York Used by the United Wireless Telegraph Co. ON BOARD THIS STEAMER Win always brin g a prompt reponse so long' as Robbins and Myers Motorgenerators are on duty at the wireless stations. We make a complete line of direct current motors for every motor use — 1-30 to 15 h. p. Let ns tell you how one of them can save you money The Rabbins & Myers Co. Springfield, Ohio. 145 Chambers St., ADVERTISEMENTS IN A SHIP WIRELESS NEWSPAPER OF 1906 The Aerogram was sold by the operators of the United Wireless Company aboard many of the ocean ships equipped with their system. It was a "wireless" newspaper, but a lot of the material was printed ashore before the vessel left port