The Washington times., 1924-07-11

|RO,mping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listener-In-,

II you ulun IOIIOW our Tip yes
terday and spin the 6ials for couple
of hours at the conclusion Of the
local program you missed a man.
roth celebration of the, nations
broadcasterS. y"
The air was sufficiently cleared
to permit good reception of almost
everything but the Pacific coast.
And the broadcasters, after being
nluzzled for a couple of weeks whiie
the Democratic party .usurped tho
radiolight, were back on the air with
ali the pep of mid-minter.
Beginning at webb, Chicago, we
romped around during our two hours
with the headphones through the
following stations: WAX, Cleye-
land; WEAF, New York; WV, De-
troit; KDKA, Pittsburgh; WSAL,
Cincinnati; WON, Chicago; WI.w,
Cincinnati: KYW, Chicago; WIS,
Chicago; WSB, Atlanta, and wTAY,
Oak Park, Ill.
Chicago was unusually busy on
the air with its five stations.
II was the first time that we had
heard from the Windy City since
the Encouragement of call letters a, ID
wave lengths.
The old WJAZ station of the
Eogewater Beach Hotel, which had
teen renamed WGN and is now
WEBB, $40, meters, under its pres.
ent management has regained MI
the excellence Of transmission that
was Its In the old days. The pro-
gram from there was easily the
c'earest and best modulated of I'll
that we heard.
When we first picked up WEPH.
Miss Esther Berry was singing. W.
weren't particularly impressed witt,
ner voice, but in a moment the
Ortole Orchestra was brought en-
from the beach walk, playing 'Don;t
Mind the RAIN and then nick
Neuber sang Dreamer of Dreams:
At WGN; now the Chicaeo
tribune station. formerly the miami
OF the Chicago Board of Trade
unoer the cah letters WDAP. we
neard' Bert Davis singing and the
Drake Hotel Orchestra playinr
Telling Your Troubles" and II
Want to Be Happy"
KYW, Chicago, was entertaining
with a midnight revue, and one ri
their artists was singing Samuel"
Al: WTAY, just outside Chicago al
Oak Park. Miss Willis was singing
An Old Fashioned Town"
The evening would not have been
complete had we not heard "Sleen"
and California Here come" The
former we heard at WLW. Cincin.
natl, now on 423 meters, and WSAI
Cincinnati and the latter at WIS
the new Sears Roebuck station at
Chicago.
Organs ruled at WSB, Atlanta.
and at WAX, Cleveland.
WSA1, Cincinnati, which can now
broadcast simultaneously with WI,IV
because OF rearrangement of
wave lengths in the Ohio city, was
giving its rival keen competition
with its late concert. Roy and
CHARLES Ogden were picking out
some real music on their steel
guitars.
From WEAF, New York. and
WV, Detroit. we heard dance
music by Vincent Lopez and Gene
Kodlkette's Orchestras.
kDKA, Pittsburgh, was making
noisy fuss with its late concert
which swung from revival hymns
10 dance music.
An interesting study in broadcast
noises came off the $50 meter wave
length, but was drowned out be.
fore we caught the call letters.
The feature was a skit of a
Pullman porter. There was first
the hubbub in the station, then
the train announcer and the bells
and escaping steam of the tracks.
The train got under way and the
porter went his rounds. Soon all
was silence except the snores of
the passengers.
We lost the idea of the thing.
but as far as we were concerned,
1t was an unusually realistic broad
cast Of sounds.
There was absolutely nothing
wrong with the program Of wRC
on the first evening following the
close OF the convention.
Pete Macias' Orchestra was re.
ceiving the beenfit of excellent
placement Of microphones and good
transmission and the rhythm. as
usual, was inescapable.
The Alma Wolking Hawaiian
players had assembled the best
program we have heard from them
so far.