New Britain herald., 1925-08-05
BACK O THE MIKE

Super power has done gread deal toward making summer broadcast ing successful, The use of super power by many of the country's sta tions has made it possible for fans throughout the country to hear pro- grams that would have been maud ible last summer,
 
 The so.called radio season is get ting longer, In fact, June, July and August were considered void of "a dio interest in past years, but since the advent Of this super power, the sum mer months are almost as full of en- tertaining novelties as are the win ter month. There are mors broad casting stations operating this sum mer than In past years. as can be noticed by a night at the radio set, and the quality of programs is of the same high standard as 1t has been during the colder weather.
 
 ,WLW at Cincinnati has q new member of its staff, engaged espe- cially to entertain the little folks. This person Is Mrs. Bertha W. Ed monds and she sends forth into the ether each Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, eastern daylight time, inter esting bedtime stories. Some of her talks are in dialect and applause messag ges received at the Crosley sta ton prove that older children" de- rive as much pleasure from them as do the little tots.
 Tn case New Britain radio fans are finding 1t impossible to bring in kSD at St. Louis. nowadays, they should not worry and think that the sets will not reach out that far. The middle western station is broadcast ing no evening program during the two weeks which began Sunday, August 2, and will end August Is. Market and news service will be broadcast during the day, however,
 '1-XG," the call letters of the new experimental license of the Travel ers' Insurance company, Hartford, has been heard several times on the air since last Tuesday, as WTIC, dur ing that time, has been making nu- merous low wave tests. This eXperi- menting license better known as an "X" license, gives broadcasting sta tions certain privileges 10 carry on research work. WGY, KDKA, WLW and WIZ have done much of this in the past under the same kind of H. cense, but in order to get the best possible quality and cover the great est possible area, each station has to make its own tests.
 During broadcasting hours WT1C has done considerable testing for selectivity. raiiation and antenna de- sign and has varied it's field strength by setting up temporary counter re- Sistanccs
 The new license cna hles the sta tion to test on other Tarelengths than it's own, 34S.6 meters, from midnight to II a. m., standard time. Test conducted during the past week have indicated that in some areas increased signal strength has been experienced.
 Antennae towers for WkRC's new station atop the Hotel Aims. Cincin- natl, that city's new $5,000,00o hos telrN will he placed in position in September, according to officials Of the station The new towers will be 1e5 feet high and will rise from a position more than 200 feet above the street level Of Victory Boule- yarde, on which thoroughfare the hotel is located. As soon as the hotel is completed, complete revision of the studios will be made, it Is said.
 Flo Ziegfcld has arranged with Marcus LoeW that the WIN Radio station welcome Eddie Cantor. The SIS. Rotterdam on which he sails for America docks on August [, Fifth street pier, Hoboken, N, J,
 Plans are that the microphone be carried aboard the SS. Rotterdam as soon as she docks. A delegation of the girls from The Follies" and Louie NV" as well as Will Rogers, W. (. Fields, Leon Errol, Ethel Shutta and others will board the boat to welcome Eddie Cantor, which will be in the nature of a com rlete surprise to the famous com cdian In addition to this, Mary Ea- ton, Eddie Contor's star in Kid Boots" will fly over the ship as she arrives in quarantine in a huge Curtis amphibian plane, piloted by Arthur CapNrton, Americas greatest fier. Mary Eaton will throw mes sages of greeting from Mir. ziegfeld, the Ziegfeld girls and others on to the deck Of the steamer. When the ship reaches quarantine, the nirplane will circle around the ship and land alongside of her at the pier, while i Miss Mary Eaton goes aboard.