The Washington times., 1925-06-18
1WRC TO DEDICATE NEW STUDI0I
|ROnping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY Listener-m

III
A careless remark we made IN
Mondays, column that Saturday
night is generally poor radio
night has brought n sharp retort
from one OF our readers.
The protesting fan is evidently
onesof the many listeners who re-
gard Crandall's Saturday Nighters
very highly and considered our OBJ
servation regarding Saturday nights
as q direct slam at what he terms
1.-THE best radio feature In WASH.
ington.' The latter says:
II am writing to tell you | donl
think much of what you said yes
terday regarding Saturday night
radio programs / think they are
the bestin the week, particularly the
concerts by CrandalIs saturday
N .gflters, an organization which, In
my opinion, is the best radio feature
In Washington.
II have always wondered why you
never commented on the excellent
entertainment by the Saturday Nightr
ers. / don't remember ever seeing
YOU mention them, in spite OF the.
fact that they are WashingtOn's
best bet for national recognition in
radio entertainment. What's the
natter
First of all we want to correct
the writer OF that letter and say
that he must have misunderstood
our. statement. We intended to
opit1e that Saturday night is a bad
radio night, not because the enter
tainment on those nights is bad
90 nm
Saturday nights and there Is there
fore comparatively small audience.
And the observation was only made
after q paragraph In which we
praised the character OF the pro-
gram on the Saturday night previ.
Gus.
Aside from that technical defense,
we have no alibis. We realize that
we have sighted the Saturday
Nighters in our comments in spite
Of the fact that we regard them as
one OF the very best features on the
air in this part of the country, not
excepting the "syndicated" New
York programs.
Our only excuse Is a personal
one. Having no column to write
advantage Of Saturday nights for
other purposes and have regularly
taken q vacation from our faith
full radio on those nights.
But we have heard enough Of
the Crandal programs to realize
that they arei worthy Of nearly
anything that is said regarding
them. They are quickly becoming
.-in these days OF tiresome pro-
grams-one refreshing period in
every week toward which we can
look forward for real recreations
And although we have not heard
most of the hours. we have heard
comment from others on practically
every program they have broadcast.
which in itself is some compliment.
Whenever radio bill Is good
enough to make fans talk about
II. there must be real merit.
Considering all these facts which
have been Brought to our realiza-
ton by our. critic, we have decided
that hereafter whenever we cannot
listen to the Saturday Nighters we
viii arrange to get q, substitute.
AS a hit and miss listener to the
Crandall programs. we have only
one criticism to make. That Is that
there is too much talking, most Of
which - Of an advertising nature
and does not sit well" on the ears.
And that Is the only criticism we
have heard from others regarding
those programs. u.
Tomorrow afternoon William NJ.
Sweets, WRCs baseball announcer.
will take the air again from The
Washington Times Studio to give
play-by.play account of the game
between Washington and Cleveland
in Cleveland The game is being
played in Cleveland instead Of
Washington as originally planned
for the benefit of delegates to the
Rotary International convention.