Evening star., 1923-12-15
wDAP-Chicago (sGo Meters),
RADIO NEWS

WRC has rearranged it's program
next week in order that WCAP can
broadcast the New York Philhar-
monte concert Monday night. This
station will be on the air Wednes-
DAY Friday .iSy and Saturday nights,
uied for Friday. WRC has had its
Army nights" and Navy nights
anu will initiate Marine Corps
nights as a new feature. Maj. Gen.
John A. LeJeune, Commadant of the
Marine Corps, Will formally open the
series OF Marine Corps nights"
Bach's Christmas oratorio by the
Columbia University Chorus will be a
feature OF WCAPs program tonight.
Inc oratorio will be sung at Carnegie
Hail. New York, where microphone S
have been installed to make it avail
able to WCAP's and WEAF's au-
ulences. TWO hundred and twenty
nVe singers will take part. The pro-
gram VIII last for about an hour and
Il half.
Radio Editor:
Kindly inform me through your
radio column what station was
broadcaSting the names of y
number of persons who won radio
parts in various parts of the
country as prizes in some sort of a
radio contest. heard it an
nounced very plainly Thursday
evening at 7:40 o'clock
Have crystal set and it sounded
llke an out-of-town station, as
nothing of the sort was scheduled
In the radio program.
H. 7. LANE.
Radio Editor:
Could you through Radio News,
4 is
as WFA1? l received it December
IL at 10:15 pm, when WCAP
was announcing the pieces to he
played by the Wardman Park
hotei Orchestra: All l could hear
was WFAI, U. 5. A. l also would
like to know if WDAR is in
PENNSYLVANIA or Massachusetts.
If WBAD is in Illinois or Min
nesota, and if WDAM is in New
York city or Rochester, n. Y. |
would like to know is there a
WCAP in Illinois as 1 am sure L
have heard the letters and l also
nave 1t in small radio call book.
WFAI is the call of the steamship
West Hobomac. 1t is not a radio
edly heard a station with a call
similar to WFAI. WDAR is the sta
ton of Lit Brothers in Philadelphia,
Pa. WBAD is in Minneapolis, MINI.
WDAM is the Weston Electric Com
pany station in New York city. There
is only one station with the call let
ters WCAP and that is the Cres-
apeake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany in this city. You probably
heard WDAP in Chicago.
Radio Editor:
l wonder IL you or any of the
fans could tell me if there is a
station with the call letters VICAR
and where it is located?
W. l.. MAJOR.
VICAR is the broadcasting station
of the Alamo Radio Electric Company
in San Antonio, Tex.
Radio Editor:
Your radio column becomes more
helpful and interesting to radio
fans every day. 1 have followed
closely the debate carried on in it
FOR and against silent night, or
nights, locally. 1 am not in favor
of it as radio apparatus is now
obtainable, and can be made,
which tunes out local stations. L
own such a set and while WCAP
or WRC are in operation | can
Springfield. Mass; Schnectady,
Cleveland and Cincinnati
think, however, and I note
that the idea has been expressed
ny IAN IN your column, that the
two local stations often operate
too late in the night or into the
morning. If each local station
would give one of their nights
each week to signing off about
IL pm. it would give tube set
owners the opportunity to reach
out after distant points, and the
crystal set owners would still have
their fill of entertainment. As it
is now, take WRC, for instance,
they will list d program to run
until 1890 or IL pm. but instead
of that, instead of stopping there,
they continue until IL and 1890
and often later with the same
line of entertainment. 1t is not
every tube set that will tune out
local stations, even with the use
OF a wave trap, and sch owners
must remain up until the wee
small hours, if they are to have a
chance of using their sets for dis
tance.
L am not unmindful of the fact
that all stations like to be heard
at distant points and like to hear
from listeners from far-away
places. but for the local stations
to sign off comparatively early.
during one night a week, would
be granting, 1 believe, what manv
fans would appreciate What
nave others to say? Z. T. CLARE.