The Washington times., 1924-06-23
BR0ADCAST|NG
EPOCH To BE
MARKED
Democratic Convention Plans
to Surpass Anything Ever
Attempted Before

NEW YORK.. June 23.-With the
entire country listening in for the
first time. the Democratic National
convention will convene tomorrow
at Madison Square Garden.
For broadcasting. the convention
will mark an epoch.
AS interesting as was the Re.
| publican convention at Cleveland,
that attraction Is expected to be
! completely overshadowed by the
events that will begin tomorrow.
With this in mind, elaborate ar.
rangements have been made by the
Radio Corporation Of America and
| the Bell Telephone System execu,
tives to give listeners the finest
broadcasting that the world has
| seen.
The Radio Corporation is to use
but two stations, WY and WGY,
Schenectady, while the Bell sys.
tenn will employ thirteen of them
In the area from Atlanta to Buf.
falo and from Kansas City to New
York.
7O,OOO,OOO To Listen In.
The fifteen stations, it is es.
timated by radio statisticians. win
serve listening audience of some.
where between 100000 900 and So.
OOO'OOO persons for Democratic
"spellbinders" to work. on. Roth
parties are well aware OF the fra.
mendous Significance of the mart
that radio Is to play in the fight
at the polls next NovemberS and
have already begun to comb their
ranks for speakers with the mi.
crophonic" voice.
TWO of the best develoned time
far will be used by the Radio Cor.
poration and the Bell comnany -
describe the fireworks. They orc
j. Andrew White for the Torr,a,.
latter. IHe
Radio fans have had MANY ~
a ample OF the ability of ]. Andrew
r w as an announcer. His de.
scrlpuons OF sporting and other
events OF national. and even inter-
nationaI, interest have thrilled mil.
lioiis: II any one deserves the title
Oh pioneer 1t is White, because he
mas been broadcasting since the
uaW Wnen radio was regarded as a
tnlng TO be laughed at and those
e.nhsaseo In IT as being a little
loco, as the Mexicans saw. White
was IN at the beginning, when
entertainers had to be kidnaped
Orowneaten and ca1oled into singing
or talking into funny.looking
morn, sometimes nothing more than
a big funnel.
J Was Singing Announcer.
McNamee's versatility. first be-.
came known when he began broad.
casting the worlds series baseball n
games and afterward the Wilson.
Greb championship fight. He came
TO WEAF as a singing announcer,
possessing rich and sympathetic
Darytone voice, which had brought
him no little distinction.
I. b. Popenoe, at the head of
Broadcast Central, which besides
WIZ includes Fly, also in tine
Atolian Building, is to personally
sIDervise the carrying out of the
ARRANGEMENTS for his company. He
said thai WIZ and WGY will each
have three pairs of Western Union
wires leading to the platform in the
Garden. This will provide a talking
circuit. an emergency circuit and
the broadcasting circuit.
WEAF will have it's regular quota
OF wires, four pair, which will lead
10 its massive plant department.
where repeating instruments will
send the speeches on the farfluns
journeys to the broadcasting sta.
tons.
How Speeches Will Be Handled.
The platform is shaped like a
giant with the base projecting
about twenty feet out into the oval
At the extreme tip will be the
microphones Of the two stations
one on either side.
McNamee and White will be
housed in two little glass cages on
the wings of the platform running
at right angles to the tongue OF
the T" Each man will have with
him member of the Democratic
Publicity committee, so that every
speaker will be properly identified
and to eliminate the probability OF
mistakes
From the platform the wires will
lead to the two operating and con.
troll rooms in the basement. where
there will be from two to five on.
orators on duty. There the voices
VIII be amplified and passed on Ia
the parent stations. There. after
all the bugs" have been filtered
out they will be reamplified and
modulated and put on the air.
All told, the Bell system will have
1856 miles of wire in operation ON
the convention alone, with eleven
repeating stations. Twenty.four OF
its best engineers will supervise the