What's on the air (Nov 1929-Feb 1931)

Page 30 WHAT'S ON THE AIR WEDNESDAY ♦.W.s EASTERN TIME 1U 30 11 30 ALA. 6obiriwham WAPI X © D| D 39BIRMHAM WBRC X 0 ©1© ARK. 5ohotspgs. KTHS p © 85 LTLE ROCK*KLRA COLO. 29 DENVER KOA IF © ©| 2 DENVER KLZ 0 © ©!© CONN. 52 HARTFORD WTIC jy D.C. 9 WASH' TON WMAL 0 0 © © 41 WASH'TON WRC r © FLA. 72JACKTLE WJAX © 2 MIAMI B. *WI0D © GA. 20 ATLANTA WSB jy © ILL 48 CHICAGO *KYW © © 23 CHICAGO *WBBM M D 43 CHICAGO WCFL 33 CHICAGO *WENR P P T T 18 CHICAGO WGN If D N D 33 CHICAGO WLS 13 CHICAGO WMAQ O 0 © M IND. 62FT.WAYNEW0W0 O © © 51INDTLS WFBM © IOWA 72 C. BLUFFS KOIL O 0 © © 46DAVENP7 *W0C IF M M 46DESMOINES*WH0 KANS.68LAWREN-E WREN W © © O 76T0PEKA WIBW 76 WICHITA KFH KY. 94 COVTON WCKY ^ © 28 LOUISVILLE WHAS JF © D D LA. 73 N. ORLEANSWDSU 78 N ORLEANS WSMB JF © ME. 40 PORTLAND WCSH IF N X MD. 52 BALTIMORE WBAL 6 BALTIMORE WCAO O M © © © D MASS.45 SPRINGFIELD WBZ 45 BOSTON WBZA M © © D 37 BOSTON WEEI JF 69 BOSTON *WNAC O © © © 4 WORCTER WTAG JF O N MICH. 70 DETROIT WGHP O © © © D 21 DETROIT *WJR D © 38 DETROIT WWJ jy © X X MINN.27MINNEAP. WCCO 0 © © © 0 91 ST. PAUL KSTP MO. 41KAN.CITY*KMBC 0 7 KAN. CITY *WDAF 0 © 55 ST. LOUIS *KMOX 0 N D 1 ST. LOUIS *KSD jy © 81 ST. LOUIS *KWK X © © D NEBR.5 OMAHA WOW jy X N.J. 17 NEWARK WOR T D MV CENTRAL TIME */ 30 lv30 RADIO GOSSIP The new broadcasting station at Lahti, Finland, is one of the most powerful in Europe. It operates at thirty-five thousand watts on a wave length of 1,525 kilocycles, or just below the American broadcasting band. New equipment installed by one of the large commercial radio stations enables the operating company to offer remarkably speedy service on the transmission of photographs, maps, etc. A 4x6 inch picture may be sent through the air between London and New York, be developed, dried and ready for delivery in thirty minutes! It is now easily possible for New York papers to print in the afternoon editions pictures of events happening that evening in London, thanks to the speed of the new transmission service and the fact that London's time is five hours faster than New York's. The United States still leads the world in number of broadcasting stations, although by a very slight margin. The completion of Colombia's first station brings the number of countries now having broadcasting facilities up to sixty-nine, and the total of foreign stations to 609. In comparison, the United States has 612. The old melodrama of the moonshiner and the "revenuer," or the modern one of the bootlegger and the prohibition-enforcement officer, has a counterpart in radio circles in Australia. Ever since the Government took over all radio broadcasting and established a license fee of $5.84 for operation of a receiving set, the problem of enforcement has been a growing one. Radio-revenue sleuths are busy all over the land, and have succeeded in bringing much business into the courts. More, they have succeeded in convicting over seventeen hundred individuals of the crime of listening in without paying the license fee, and collected nearly $30,000 in fines and costs. Six thousand miles in a sixth of a second is the speed record for distance covered, made by the Columbia Broadcasting System, when the program was almost instantly transferred from a dressing-room in the Paramount Theater in Paris, France, to a studio in Hollywood, Calif. The occasion was the Paramount-Publix Hour. For twelve minutes the program came from the New York studios, then Louis Witten announced Maurice Chevalier, and immediately the popular French actor was heard extending his greetings to America. Less than a sixth of a second after Mr. Chevalier concluded his remarks the announcer at Hollywood took up the direction of the program. While many stations have program periods devoted to Boy Scout interests, KGDP, of Pueblo, Col., is unique in that it is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of that city. The Wilkins-Hearst Antarctic Expedition will afford a new source of interest to amateur radio telegraphers and short-wave fans. From the base on Deception Island the expedition hopes to maintain a two-way service with the world. The planes, by means of which the actual work of exploration is to be done, carry a specially built portable transmitter with hand-driven generator, which in tests have given strong signals at midday over a distance of four hundred miles. Don Ball, lately announcer artist at a prominent Midwestern radio station, is now a member of WABC's announcerial staff. At Brown University, where he was class orator, Ball was given the title of All-American Ukulele Virtuoso. Elisabeth Wood, contralto, has joined the musical staff of the National Radio Homemakers Club. Well known throughout the country as a concert and recital artist, and locally as soloist in one of Brooklyn's largest churches, Miss Wood will now be heard regularly during the broadcasts by Ida Bailey Allen from her studios high up in a New York skyscraper, during which information for housewives is given with musical interludes by a number of artists. Excerpt from a letter received by the National Broadcasting Company: "I claim to be the only man who can neigh like a horse, so near natural if you were near where there were horses you would not think of a human voice being able to perform such a feat. Possibly this feat would work in the Farm and Home Hour." The index letters in schedules indicate type of program which will predominate during respective O Palmolive Hour Same as No. 4 (8-10 Wed.). half-hour broadcast period. © Salon Singers B Band music 0 Organ C Children's features P Popular music D Dance music (with vocal solos) E Educational £ Religious G Grand opera J Theatrical L Light opera V Vocal ensembles © Chorus of sixteen mixed voices; direction, George Dilworth. Announcer, Milton J. Cross. Lew White Organ Recital (First 15 min.) Phil Spitalny's Dance Music M Instrumental W Wit, comedy (Other than dance) X Station on air, but N News program variable O (Last 15 min.) Phil Spitalny's Dance Music Dance music. ♦ Dance music from New York