Evening star., 1924-05-11


is concerned. Today there are SIT sta
tions licensed to broadcast, compared to
the peak Of sol last May. New stations
are still coming in, twenty-seven hav-
ing been added during the past month,
while nineteen dropped out of the aerial
entertaining profession. The gain in
January was seven, February fourteen
and March twenty. The distribution on
May 1 was as follows: Class A. 81;
class B, So; class c, 152, and class D,
development stations, 2. Wave lengths
for Glass B stations are exhausted, and
practically all the wave lengths allocat-
ed for class A stations have also
reached the 'saturation point in zone
distribution.
It is probable that Secretary Hoover
will ask for a reallocation of the
eighty wave lengths now allotted to
tributing them in a. better manner, If
one can be found at the forthcoming
conference. Instead Of distributing
them on the basis of frequencies,
with waste space between the wave
lengths assigned, it is possible that
a new method may be devised which,
it is said, would make dozen more
wave lengths available. Another plan
would be to eliminate the 152 Glass
stations, which have been per-
360-meter wave or transfer them to
A or stations and make that wave
length available for general use in
the several zones.
Reviving interest in the building
of empowered and high-dass
broadcasting g stations has entirely ex-
hausted The available wave lengths
between 300 and 546 meters. All
wave lengths in this band, reserved
TOT CLASS b stations, being assigned,
it Is lmposs ible to give new b sta
tions exclusive waves, and as a con-
sequence wave lengths now in use
must must be shared by neighboring sta
in time mort o., ha more d,esa exactly operating
WfoC and WCAP, which broadcast on
alternate nights.
There are f1fty-tvo class B stations
operating with 500 watts or more
entertainment and features, but an
phcatfons for almost a dozen Similar
stations are on file in the department
respective bruadcasters, who hope
government. are warned that they
VIII have to operate part time and
snare wave lengths already assigned
70 one or more stations, as is the
practice with Class A stations, the
department points out.
Six new class A stations were add
ed to the list last week. They are:
WCBY, Forks Electrical Shop. Buck
Hill Falls. Pa, 26S meters, 10 watts.
WcBZ, Coppotelli Brothers Music
Rouse, chicago Heights, ILL.,, 24S
WDBD, Herman Edwin Burns, Mar
tlnSburg, w. Va. 26S meters: 5 watts. |
WDBI, L. Budd Peddicord. New Or |
leans; La. 242 meters; 10 watts
kFPH, First Presbyterian Church, |
Pine Bluff Ark 9i1 naterS. Inn
watts.
WcBw, George P. Rankin, jr, Ma
con. Ca, 226 meters; 10 watts.
Radio Conference Planned.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover will
call a general radio conference in
Washington soon after the adjourn
ment of Congress in an effort to Sc
cure cooperation of all radio in
terests in clearing up the ether and
solving the problem of distributing
wave lengths. A conference will be
caHed whether or not new legisla- |
tion is enacted.
The conference will be similar to
those in the springs of 1922 and 1928,
at which representatives of the man
ufacturers, broadcasters. engineers.
amateurs, commercial operators. and
broadcast listeners aided in drawing
up voluntary regulations under which
radio has been supervised ever since.
1t was in this manner that the dis
tribution Of wave lengths for broad
casters and other interests was de-
veloped
Present indications are that broad
casting stations will continue to in
crease, although wave lengths avail
able for this use are practically ex-
hausted and stations are doubling up.
Even-time allotments in congested Sec
tions are becoming difficult to make
Secretary Hoover believes con-
gested conditions and interference
are getting worse. If present condi-
how we could operate five years from
now, and as a consequence he in
tends taking advantage of such sug-
gestions from Representatives of the |
allied radio art and industry as may |
be made.
II the White bill is enacted. Sec |
retary Hoover pointed out, new reg |
ulations and prabably reallocations |
of wave lengths will have to be made, |
and, and if .,T, no legislation is passed this |
condition such as prevailed two years |
ago confronts the radio public.
Hams, fans, ops" and the hoi pol |
loi of radioland will be interested to |
know that the White radio bill final |
ly has been passed on by the radio |
subcommittee of which Representa-
tive White is chairman, and sent to |
the merchant marine and fisheries |
committee Of the House. Mr. White |
believes that the general committee |
will soon report the bill favorably |
to the House, where he hopes 1t will |
pass this session. No one can proph- |
eSy as to what the attitude of the |
Senate will be.
Few changes were made in the bill,
it is understood, since the recent |
hearings: basically. it is practically |
as originally introduced.