The talking machine world (Jan-June 1928)

The Talking Machine World, New York, May, 1928 43 Industry Presents Broadcast Proposal Plan Calls for Establishment of Broadcasting System Designed to Give Improved Radio Service to Public i Washington, D. C, April 23. — With a plan for the establishment of a broadcasting system of the United States which will give a greatly improved radio service, all branches of the radio industry joined in a report submitted to-day to the Federal Radio Commission and urged that such a goal be attained by natural evolution rather than by radical sweeping changes. Reduction in the number of broadcasting stations with a minimum of delay and also minimum disturbance in present broadcasting was recommended. The industry proposal was presented by Attorney Frank D. Scott in behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Radio Manufacturers' Association and the Federated Radio Trades Association, whose committees had met first separately and later jointly in Chicago last week. The report, invited by the Commission to aid it in administering the new "equal" allocation provision of the radio law, does not contain a completely evolved plan for the equal distribution of station licenses, but rather provides a method of procedure which is sufficiently flexible to meet the changing conditions in broadcasting. The method calls for the use of basic "common denominators," which will be placed sufficiently high to accommodate the normal requirements of zones in respect to wave lengths, station licenses, power and periods of operation which must be equalized in accordance with amendments recently made by Congress to the Radio Law of 1927. On the question of station licenses the industry is patently of the opinion that there are too many stations on the air at the present time and for that reason suggests the fixing of the "common denominator" at one-fifth of the total number of stations now in existence, or 140 in each zone, and that in working to the ideal, ultimately to be realized, to make use of the borrowing clause of the "equal allocation" amendment which permits the Federal Radio Commission to assign temporarily station licenses, power or wave lengths from zones where they are allotted on a quota basis to stations in other zones at present above their quotas. Peerless Plans for Larger Production Entire Plant Being Reorganized to Bring About Much Needed Increase in Production— Business Booming The entire manufacturing plant of the Peerless Album Co., New York, manufacturer of portable phonographs and record albums, is now being rearranged and reorganized in order to bring about an increase in production, particularly on Peerless portables. This is due to the volume of orders on hand, which, according to Phil Ravis, president, is the largest in the history of the company. Peerless manufactures five models of portable phonographs, with many unusual features The Master-Phonic Senior is equipped with a tone amplifier and plays with the lid down, thus eliminating surface noise. Another model, which is said to be the only one of its kind, is the Peerless All-Leather portable, an allleather job both inside and out. FERRYMAN PERRYMAN RADIO TUBES Distance Without Distortion All the A. G Types • Sell your A. G. Sets by demonstrating with Perryman A. G. Tubes and make that extra profit. 1. Extra profit in the sales price. 2. Extra profit because Perryman Types 226, 227, 280 and 281 have been perfected and improved and are guaranteed to give extra long life and service. 3. Extra profit because they stay sold. No replacements to eat up profits. (They must make good or we doJ 4. Extra profit because they bring back new business on their excellent performance. Perryman Electric Company, Inc. 33 West 60th Street New York, N. Y. Plant: North Bergen, New Jersey The Stranch Piano Co., Yonke.rs, N. Y., recently added a Victor department. PERRYMAN RADIO TUBES A Complete. Line of Standard Equipment for every Radio Purpose