The Washington times., 1924-02-08
BROADCAST
CENTRAL
NOVEL
WIZ and WY ArtisticaIIy
Housed Together in New
York City.

Radio Broadcast Central, the home
| of WIZ and WY, New York, Is
the third of a series of descriptive
articles of the many broGdcGstisrg
stations in the United StGtes.-The
Editor.
Radio Broadcast Central is one
of the most unusual broadcast
ing stations in the world.
With one pair of antenna tow
ers, one transmitting house and
one control room it broadcasts
two distinct programs on two
different wave lengths from two
separate studios. Briefly, two
stations, known by the call let
ters WIZ and WJY,. operating
on 455 and 405 meter wave
lengths respectively are under
the same roof, management, and
operation.
Center for Artists.
Located at the Aeolian building,
on Forty-second street, just west of
Fifth avenue, the twin stations are
in the very center of musical and
artistic hfe of New York city, which
is itself the center Of the musical
and artistic life Of the continent.
The studios and reception rooms
are the most attractive part of
Broadcast Central. Entering the
door marked Radio Broadcast Cen.
tral-Entrance," the visitor or artist
finds himself in a large, sunny,
tastefully decorated room-the WIZ
reception room. From three large
windows he may look down upon
the green park behind the Public
Library, or may sit in luxurious
easy chairs and skim through the
pages Of the photograph album of
every famous parsonage who has
performed over the radio through
WIZ, the while he listens to the re.
ceiving set which is tuned into
WIS own wave-actual proof of
the transmission which is given the
broadcaster in the next room.
From the reception room double
door with intervening chamber, for
the purpose of excluding all outside
noises, leads to the studio where the
brOadcasting is actually done. A
large rectangular room. harmonious,
dignified and restful in old ivory,
brown and maroon. A large mural,
symbolical Of the vast audience
which is listening in all over the
world, Is situated so that the artists
will face it when singing or playing.
The walls Of the studio appear
solid, but upon pressure of the fin
ger prove to be of wax-treated mus
lin laid over felt-an acoustically
perfect construction which absorbs
the tiniest echo and assures blurless
clearness of the transmitted sound.
WY Tones Lively.
Passing back to the WIZ recep-
ton room, and turning ones back
to the entrance from the hall, one
sees the door to WY reception
room, with a perfectly appointed
dressing room on either side of the
connecting passage. This recep.
ton room is as richly furnished as
is the other, with the Radiola Grand
received tuned in to WHY'S wave
length. The double door sysem as
was found in the WIZ suite con-
meets the reception room with the
studio.
The WY studio is decorated in
more lively. tone than is WIZ, with
the panelled walls finished in blue
and green, the trim and mouldings
OF salmon pink and the draperies
In heavy vividly flowered cretonne.
This studio, located in the corner Of
the building, looks out upon the
Public Library to the south and
Fifth avenue to the east, with the
business corner in the world, Fifth
avenue and Forty-second street, al
most within speaking distance.
Elaborate "Pick Up."
Because Of the great n,noher ~
MAYOR events constantly occurring
in the various hotels, clubs, and
theaters in Manhattan, WIZ and
WY have developed an elaborate
system Of pick up wires which en-.
able them to reach any point in the
island Of Manhattan, to broadca at
dinner speeches, plays, debates, or
dances directly from the scene of
their occurrence.
Such events as William Jennings
Bryan's speech at the Masonic
Temple, or the greeting of Anton
Lang, Oberammergau Christus,
from his room IN the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, such dinners as those
OF the Ohio Society and Pennsyl.
Vanla Society at which the most
prominent men in the country
spoke, such musical events as the
recital Of Moritz Rosenthal from
carnegie Hall, the American
Orchestral Society concerts from
Cooper Union and the so.popular
Sunday evening concerts by the
commodore Hotel and the Waldorf
Astoria Symphonic Orchestras, could
not be broadcast without the de.
Veiopment OF this direct wire