Radio today (Sept 1935-Dec 1936)

ScrippsHoward buying radio stations * The Scripps Howard newspaper chain, which operates papers in 24 cities, has obtained approval of the Federal Communications Commission for the purchase of WFBE, Cincinnati. Karl A. Bickel, who heads the Continental Radio Company, the ScrippsHoward radio subsidiary, said : "Scripps-Howard's purchase of the Cincinnati station most emphatically does not mean that we are planning any extensive investment in the broadcasting industry. It does not mean that Scripps-Howard is considering a station in each of the 24 Scripps-Howard cities. It does not mean that Scripps-Howard is planning a transcontinental radio chain system of its own. "It does mean that we feel that there are possibilities in radio for the development of a closer and more intimate contact between the readers of Scripps-Howard newspapers and the men and women who produce the papers. We feel that we should give these possibilities careful study, and hope that we may find ways and means of increasing the effectiveness and value of both of these great instruments for social advancement." Applications are filed to construct 100-watt stations at Columbus and Todelo and to change the call letters of the Cincinnati station to WCPO. Radio creates new living standards * That broadcasting is creating new standards of living for the American public, which eventually will be expressed in new levels of industrial production, was emphasized by Col. Richard C. Patterson, Jr., executive vice-president of the National Broadcasting Company, addressing the Boston Conference on Distribution, Colonel Patterson said, in part : "Two facts about radio cannot be denied. First, there is a continued and steady increase in the number of good things available in the average day's span of broadcasting. And second, the public demand for quality programs is likewise steadily on the increase. "You find on the air the best music from the best artists; the best drama with the best actors; the most pressing problems with the most renowned authorities to discuss them. And the mail that high-class programs of this sort call forth is best proof of the fact that America's radio taste is improving, along with the quality of America's radio programs. Cultural Job "That, I think, is a cultural achievement. But it is also a business achievement. We in radio have helped to broaden and cultivate the desires of the American people. It follows from that that we have helped to broaden and cultivate the demand Television of full movie-screen size and brightness is now being shown on Kurfurstendamm, in Berlin. Ten thousand thin-filament lamps make up the picture which measures 6yi ft square, with 100 lines of 100 lamps each. Dick Patterson, general manager NBC, with 0. B. Hanson, chief engineer and wizard of the networks. for those things which make the gratification of those desires a possibility. "And it is a significant fact that so many of these contributions have been made under commercial sponsorship. Business, which has been identified with the production of goods, has now become identified with providing the good things of life. Business produces the equipment with which to enjoy life. And then business turns around and helps to provide the enjoyment. Quite apart from the economic implications, I doubt if there was ever a time when industry could so well afford to have a hand in making that kind of a nonmaterial contribution to our national well-being." Export sets without tubes, non-infringing * Radio sets for export in which the tubes are inserted into their sockets by recipients abroad, so that patented operating circuits are not completed while within the jurisdiction of the United States, are declared not infringements of U. S. patents and so not required to pay license fees, according to decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of F. A. D. Andrae, defendant in a suit brought by RCA and AT & T. The decision is declared to affect a number of export manufacturers and reverses an injunction granted the plaintiffs by Federal Judge Inch in Brooklyn several months ago. November, 1935