Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1929, Page 29

UPHEAVAL MaY HIT BROADCASTING Movement to Limit Chain Operations Among Several Changes Proposed. BY MARTIN CODEL. Certain trends are discernible in the broadcasting realm which, if they are Tesolved into decisive action, may soon €ause ancther radical upheaval in con- ditions of radio reception throughout | the country. One change may result from the! movement revived in the ranks of the| Federal Radio Commission to force some | sort of limitation on chain broadcast-| ing. Another movement for changes in radio assignments has been precipitated | by the insistence of several broadcasters | that they be permitted to share the use | of some of the 40 channels now cleared | for exclusive use by high-powdered sta- tions during evening hours. Still another proposal is that 10 more ehannels be cleared to accommodate stations of acknowledged importance which have been obliged to share hours of operation since the realiocation and attempted ronal equalization of last| November. Over all the deliberations on these subjects hangs uncertainty whether the Federal Radio Commission itself will be continued by Congress after its admin- | istrative life expires, next December 31.| Then there is still greater uncertainty concerning the reappointment of sev- | eral, if not all, of the five commissioners when their tenures expire, next Febru- ary 23, Judge Sykes' Proposal. ‘The limitation upon chain stations has been proposed by Judge E. O. Sykes, who would require that no_station of 5,000 watts or more power shall broad- cast chain programs without first ob- taining permission from the Federal Radio Commission. He has further presented his colleagues with the propo- sition that no two stations of 5,000 watts or more power in the same State shall broadcast identical chain programs without special permission from the ‘commission. ‘The order imposing & 300-mile sepa- ration between chain stations on cleared | channels having been rejected many | times, the effort would now be directed to a study of each individual station | subscribing to chain programs to deter- mine whether its service area overlaps that of any other station carrying the same program. To make such a de- talled study the commission would re- quire a substantially increased per- sonnel, ‘The practical effect of the Sykes pro- is difficult to estimate, although it may be seen readily that States like New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, ©Ohio and California might be affected. For example, & high-powered Boston station could not be on the air with a| chain program while the same program was being broadcast from the chain member at Springfield, and perhaps also at Hartford. Likewise Cleveland could not take the program going out of Cin- cinnati if it could be proved that the station in the latter city was amply covering Cleveland, or vice versa. High Power as Permanent. High power seems to have come to stay, but the exclusive use of single channels by high-powered stations is still & subject of controversy within the commission and among Major “Chain” Features TONIGHT. 8:00—Pure Oll program; Gold- man Band—WJZ, WJR, WBAL, WHAM., KDKA, KYW., KWK, WREN and WBAL. 8:00—Blackstone WMAL an Plantation.— d C. B. S. net- work. 9:00—Johnson and Johnson pros gram; musical melodrama —WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR, KYW, KWK, WREN and WBAL. 9:00—Eveready _hour; Kedroff Quartet—WRC and N. B. C. network. 9:00—Paul Whiteman's Orches- tra: dance program— WMAL and C. B. S. net- work. 10:00—Clicquot Eskimos; dance music—WRC and N. B. C. network. 10:00—Fada Salon hour: Adele Vasa, soprano — WMAL and C. B. S. network. 10:30—R. K. O. hour: vaudeville stars—WRC and N. B. C. network. 11:00—Town_Ciub hour—WMAL and C. B. 8. network. Chairman Ira E. Robinson is an avowed opponent of high-powered broadcasting. while Commissioner H. A. Lafount has succeeded to former Commissioner O. P. Caldwell's mantle as its chief exponent. ‘While the principle of high power has been adopted more or less by the col mission, powered stations and some of medium power the exclusive use of cleared chan- nels is still being discussed. Only last week several stations applied for the right to operate simultaneously on cleared channels used exclusively at night by stations of 5.000 watts or more power, claiming that no interference would result. A specific case was the application of WRNY, New York City, for simultane- ous use of the cleared channel assigned to KJR, Seattle, which has 5000 watts. Chairman Robinson would have such operation tried out to determine the interference. Commissioner Lafount op- poses such changes as an attack upon the fundamental principle of maintain- ing certain channels free from the possibility of interference, so that the stations on them may reach out and serve a large audience. ‘The whole problem resolves itself down to the question whether shared use of & wave length within interfer- ence over the areas between statiol but not in their immediate vicinities, more desirable than exclusive use by one station with no interference re- sulting. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) NEW PHONE LINK PLANNED Egyptian Government to Establish Line Between London and Cairo. CAIRO, Egypt (#).—The Egyptian government has made arrangements with the Marconi Co. for the establish- ment of wireless telephone service be- tween Cairo and London. The communication fee will be $25 for three minutes’ conversation and $7.50 for each additional minute, Rudy Vallee Returns. After an absence of two months in Hollywood, where he made his first moving picture, Rudy Vallee and his orchestra will return to radio to be & regular feature in the Sunshine hour on and a coast-to-coast chain casters. | Thuraday. Your best friend AFTER S COOLS. HAVING COOLS while you shave aud the coolness lingers! Listerine Shaving Cream. ..HEALS PROTECTS That Is why shavers of all ages use Listerine afier shaving. It socthes and heals skin that the razer or lather has left flamed. The essential oils it contains are noted for their soothe ing qualities. Next it eools the skin—long after the shave thet lingering coolness. Finally it checks infection, For Listerine The same qu.]i' Tell your wife that make Listerine the matter of giving high-|R THE EVENING IKEDROFF QUARTET One of Russia’s Most Famous Musical Organization to Make Debut. ’ famous of all Russian musical organi- 2ations, will make its radio debut to- outstanding National Broadcasting Co.’s attractions. scheduled by WRC. The program of the quartet, which Chaliapin has described as “a musical miracle,” is designed to depict Russia's contribution to the music of the w It opens with the “Bells of Novgor and will be followed by the Duckling." ince of Riazan; “Rise, Thou Red Sun.” an old Volga son| “In Memory of ‘Those Fallen in B: 4nd “The Song of the Hindu Merchant,” the work of Rimsky-Korsakoff. Other Musical Features. ‘The Michelin Men, the Prophylactic ram, the Clicquot Eskimos and the lo-Keith-Orphéum hour are among WRC's other musical features. The llrnflon'l schedule also contains the first o broadcasts, which includes a talk by Jane Addams of Hull House and an- other “Roads of the Sky" program, during which John T. Trippe. president of the Pan-American Afrways, will de- seribe the recent tour of Central and South America by Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Linbergh. Clyde Griffin, who travels the vaude- ville circuits &s “Nature’s Nobleman. and Leo Reisman and his orchestra will be the pdincipal contributors to the R. K. O. hour. Louise Bave, s0- prano; Taylor Buckley and Irving Kauf- man, baritones, snd Louis Katzman's Orcheatra will take part in_the Miche- lin broadeast, while the ylactic program, to be presented by Victor Ar- den's Orchestra, will feature excerpts from “Wildfiower,” the 6-year-old American operetta by Vincerit Youmans. Adele Vasa, soprano, formerly of the American Opera Co., will be the guest soloist with David Mendoza’s Orchestra in the Fada program tonight over ‘WMAL and other Columbia Broadcast- ing System stations. She will sing two numbers. The orchestral portion of the program includes an finstrumental arrangement of the “Quartet” from ON WRC TONIGHT ‘The Kedroff Quartet, one of the most night in the Eveready hour, one of the the new Universal Safety Serles/ STAR, WASHINGTON, “Rigolétto,” the “Funeral Marionettes” and Sousa’s Stripes Forever.” “True Romance” Program. ‘The first of a new “True Romance” serfes, scheduled by WMAL at 8:30 {o'clock, will be a dramatization of the | story “Clinging Arms.” The Old Gold- Paul Whiteman hour, to follow, is com- posed of a varied array of dance unes !in which a medley of brass from “Sun- niside Up” will be featured. In the “Dream Boat” program, WMAL's clos- ing attraction. the specialty will be a | solo on a huge marimba-xylophone by | Bludon Wills. | A dance program by the S. S. Silver| State Orchestra and a recital by Ever- | ett Stevens, juvenile pianist, are among | WJBV's principal offerings tonight. | WOL's outstanding presentations will | ch of the! ‘Stars and | | Congress of Parents and Teachers, and | another theatrical review by Peggy | Clarke and Gardner Mack. ¥ - | | Grants Radio Subsidy. | | MANILA (#)—To foster radio com- ' munication, the Philippine government pays the Radio Corporatioh of the Phil- "l.lltie‘ ippines 75.35 per cent of the total fees the dance song of the prov- |on radio messages transmitted by the bureau of posts through nine statlons. | 1t is about $190,500 yearly. \ New 50.000-Watt Plant. 8T. LOUIS (A .—KMOX has an- nounced plans for construction of a 50,000-watt transmitter, authorized by | the Federal Radio Commission, to rr-r place its present 5.000-watter. KMOXJ | Intends to spend about $300,000. | be & talk by Mrs. Wallace Perry of the D. C., TUESDAY, RADIO CAMPAIGN NOW BEING WAGED Move Is On to Stop Overindul- "gence in Loud Speakers at Night. NEW YORK (#).—The campaign con- tinues against an overindulgence in loud-speaking radios late at night. Particularly have those New York City residents who write to the news- papers been quick to express their ob- jections to the operation by apartment dwellers and others of the radio receiver at full tilt even after the metropolis’ late-hour bedtime, The way to overcome the difficulty might be via one of those “educational campaigns.” Teach the tadio owrer that 10 should be the universal retiring time and impress upon him or her the need of reducing volume to the lowest gdod reception point so that sleeping neighbors will not be disturbed. 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