Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-19
WSB RECOGNIZED
BY UNCLE SAM As
PREMIER STATION
Journal Radiophone Is First
and Only Plant in South
east to Win Class B Fed
eraI License

officially designated The Atlanta
Journal radiophone broadcasting sta,
ton, WSB, as "Class BIZ station, Ii,
censed to transmit entertainment on
wave length of 400 meters.
The Journal station, therefore
stands as the first and only broad
casting plant in this part of the
country, and as one of the first in
any part of the United States, to win
this significant recognition from the
federal authorities governing wire
less operation in America.
"Class B" for radio broadcasting
stations was created by the United
States department of commerce re,
Gently as step toward solving the
problem Of an ever-growing null
tiplicity of stations broadcasting on
the old standard wave length of $50
meters.
To qualify for the new and limit
ed class of stations licensed to broad
cast on the higher wave length of
400 meters, certain specific and rigid
federal standards concerning type of
equipment, technical excellence in
transmission, uniform quality Of pro,
grams and methods of presentation
must be complied with.
Meets High Standard
Station WSB, after personal ex-
haustive inspection by a United
States radio inspector who was sent
two weeks ago, easily measured VI
to the high standard established by
the government and has received on,
Of the new licenses, authorizing the
change in wave length from $50 tt.
400 meters.
Aside from the prestige given A!
lanta and the south, The Atlanta
Journals promotion to Class B will
result in direct and far-reaching
benefits to the stations huge radio
constituency, both at home and
abroad.
In Atlanta the benefits will ac-
Crue equally to the crystal-set listen
ers, constituting the vast majority
Of radio fans, and to the growing
army of tube-set listeners, who main
tain expensive equipment for hear
ing distant concerts.
The thousands Of households where
one or more modest receiving outfits
give members OF Atlanta families all
the pleasures and advantages of ra-
do entertainment, will now be in
sured of a finer type of transmits
sion, anG of a consistent mainten
ance of the uniformly superior type
of program that must be adhered
to under the provisions of the Class
e license issued The Journal.
Only in Emergency
For instance, no Glass B station
may transmit mechanical music as
a regular or stereotyped feature,
Only in an emergency may mechani-
cal music be transmitted, and then
only through the use of an instru
ment of recognized merit.
This provision, of course, scarcely
affects The Journals circle of listen
ers, as WSB anticipated public senti-
ment months ago by eliminating this
type of entertainment almost entire
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character of music only as novelty
for especial occasions when it's
transmission figured as an attrac-
ton welcomed by all listeners.
In technical way, WSB's crystal
set listeners, or a certain number Of
them, may be affected by the neces-
sity. of making minor changes in
their outfits arising from the neces,
sity of recording the higher wave
length of 400 meters. These changes,
and the method of making them,
will be explained in detail in supse-
quent announcements pubnshed IN
The Journal and broadcast by WSB
One of the major problems arts
ing from radio telephony's amazlnr;
growth since The Journal entered
the field as pioneer station last
March is the increasing difficulty
encountered by tube-set listeners in
singing out one program from the
medley of concerts put into the air
by the several hundreds Of stations
broadcasting every night on iden-
tically the same wave length, 800
meters.
May Be Easily Isolated
With its new and higher wave
length OIL 4UU I1lclSIS, w ID Cal
rier wave may be isolated easily
from the rank and file Of other
stations transmitting on the old
standard Of $50 meters.
The change to 400 meters from
$50 meters will be put into effect
by Station WSB on October "a.
This advance date has been deter
mined upon in order to avoid any
possible complication on the part Of
listeners and to permit the pres
ence Of George A. Her, The Jour
nails radio engineer, now in charge
of Station WSB's radio booth at
the Chicago international radio eX-
position.
On and after October "a, Static
WSB will take its place among
the selected group of leading Amer
lean broadcasting stations recog.
nized by the United States govern
ment as worthy of the classified
ton created specifically for the
purpose of segregating stations
only the highest type
of transmission and programs,
federal regulation put, into force
strictly in the interest of lettering
conditions for the mighty legion of
unseen listeners that now covers
America from coast to coast.
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