The Washington times., 1925-03-19
FOUR ORCHESTRAS ON WRC
|Ro1nping Around
the
Radio Dial

Summer, with its poor reception.
which has proved to be an annual
| Waterloo for radio broadcasting.
| does, not hold the same dismal out
| look for. local listeners during the
coming warm months as it has In
The completion of a direct-wire
link between station WBZ, Spring
field, Mass, and the studios of the
| twin New York stations, WIZ end
WY, has been announced by the
| Radio = Corporation of America.
WBZ will hereafter take and give
programs from and to the twin
stations and WGY, Schenectady,
and WRC here.
This means that local listeners
will not be dependent upon being
able to tune in out-of-town stations
during the summer to hear good
programs. With talent from these
four cities linked together, all Of
I the stations on the, chain should
have good programs regularly.
| Last year 1t was different. Out
side of the two political conven.
| lions, practically no programs were
| "piped" into Washington WRC'S
regular programs were made up en-
tirely from what they could broad
cast from their studio. They didn't
even have facilities to pickup" In
teresting events around the city
here.
WCAP was already connected with
wEAF, New. York, but was not
taking so much OF the New York
programs as it is now. To the
| WCAP chain have been added sew
| .eral other eastern and middle west.
ern stations, from which 1t will be
possible to take the best features.
So, with neither OF our stations
entirely dependent on its own ma.
terial for broadcasting and with
plenty OF opportunity to draw from
all over the eastern part of the
country; things are looking up.
In addition; to the improvements
promised because of the interwired
stations, another new, developm ent
is liable Ato make our summer
| Iistening-in more profitable. Many
powerful Glass. B broadcasters have
been experimenting with Increased
power. But to date none Of them
has consistently used more than
1000 watts.
During the recent TRANSATLANTIC
tests by which we we're able to
listen to London, several times this
much power was used. 1t is proba-
BILE that some of our best stations
will jump their power up to similar
heights this summer in an attempt
to override the static.
Ii they do, 1t will insure that we
will be able to hear most OF the
stations in this part of the country
at least as cleraly as we are accus-
toned to in the winter months.
We were forced to leave our set
before the Philharmonic concert
from New York began last night
and missed every bit Of it. The
program, looked unusually attrac-
tive, too. ~ =
Louis Thompson's tenor voice
blended well with the rich sopra N
of his pupil Ages Leonard. The,
opening recital by Howard Joseph
favorable comment from the list
eners.
Boernstein's La Java orchestra,
led by Pete Macias had the same
old rythm last night that has made
it famous. Their time in playing
dance music is about the best
around this. part Of the country.
Although it had not been preVt-
ously announced, the Franklin
Square Hotel provided the usual
entertainment during .intermissions.
Gertrude Kreiselman and Anne
Sweeney, pianist and violinist. gave
a medley of blues songs they have
worked. up. while playing together
In the Franklin Square Coffee
Shoppe, Which was good.