Evening star., 1925-08-16
PAUL|ST FATHERS
! STATION LICENSED
Eight New Class A Broad
J. casters Are Authorized
z During Week.

New York City was awarded its
ninth Glass B broadcasting station by
the Department of Commerce today.
The newcomer is to be known as
WLWL and will be operated with
1000 watts by the Missionary Society
of ST. Paul the Apostle. The wave
length TO be used is of necessity a
Class a wave-length, 2SS.3 meters,
the same as that now used by xxx
at Hastings. Neb.
The station will operate on its
waye-length at any time that its
transmission does not interfere with
THAT Of the Hastings plant. During
1.-THE late Summer and Fall months
little OF this interference can be ex-
pected. but when cool weather arrives,
some definite arrangement may be
neceSsitated between the stations as
TO division of time.
PauIist Fathers Seek License.
The Paulist Fathers have been en-
deavoring to obtain license for 4
station TO be controlled by them for
several months. The licensing of the
new Glass b plant in Manhattan now
gives New York City eight "B' chan
nels, two of which are being divided,
one of them by WAHG aend WGBS.
and the other by WY and WOR, at
splant, will operate on Class A wave
NllH lIlG sIdHlllS VI
a new Class B license to New York,
the Department of Commerce also
jawarded Chicago a new suburbs
! super" which, like the New York
plant will operate on Class A wave
l1ength, and the lowest length on
which any Glass B station is operat-
f1ng-217.3 meters. The new Chicago
"B" station is WOK, of the Neutro-
wound Radio Manufacturing Co, at
Homewood. just outside Chicago,
which previously had been in opera
tdons as a Glass A plant. WOk will
use 1900 watts and will not share it's
twave-length with any other station.
The addition of these two new Glass
lib stations brings the total number in
Ebut the low wave-length to be en-
tployed by the newcomers is not ex-
fpected to create any more congestion
in the vicinity of the two big Amer
kacan radio centers.
In addition to the two B licenses
Sranted this week. eight new Class A
iStations were added to the rolls of
f&he country's broadcasters, the larg-
Pest number in any one week since
Ssarly in the Summer.
Stations Licensed.
l. The eight stations. their call letters
Nand owners follow:
MIA the May SSSQ ana nursery
Co, at Shenandoah, Iowa. 500 watts,
262 meters; WIBZ, the Powell Elec-
trio Co., Montgomery. Ala, 10 watts,
231 meters: WRHM, the Rosedale Hos.
>pital. Inc, Minneapolis, so watts. 252
meters; KTAB,. the Tenth Avenue
Baptist Church, Oakland. Calf, 500
watts, 215.7 meters; WOCG. the
aTriple Alliance Radio Station, Syca-
more, Ill. 10 watts, 205.4 meters
'KUPR, the Union Pacific Railroad
Go, Omaha, so watts, 27o meters;
tWKAF, the WKAF Broadcasting Co
Milwaukee, $50 watts, PSI meters
KFWC. L. E. Wall. Upland, Calf, so
waits, PILL meters
The installation Of a second station
in the little town of Shenandoah.
Iowa, which like the first station
there. kFNF' is to be controlled by
n seed and nursery company, is an
Interesting sidelight on the success of
radio in the Middle West KFNF
found itself a year ago reaching both
Of the United States coasts on a COM
paratively low waye-lenEth, and It be-
came one of the best known voices of
that section of the country.