Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
EIGHT STATIONS
ADD TO DIN IN AIR
Department of Commerce
f. Figures Show Total of
{. SGT BroadcaSterS.

Eight more broadcasters Joined the
ether lin last week, the Department of
Commerce revealed today in its weekly
radio report, but as only one is rated
with a power of 500 watts, they are
expected to add little to the existing
disturbance. The new octet, how
ever, brings the total very close to
the anticipated 700 mark; to be ex-
act, there are now 697 active stations
making the nights in the ether more
hideous.
The new 500-watter is located at
1nglewood. Calf, and will transmit
on the 3S7-meter channel. The other
seven and the wave lengths chosen
follow:
WMBL, Lakeland, Fla, 410 meters;
KGEW. Fort Morgan, Colo, ESQ me-
ters; KGEU. Lower Lake, Calf, 222
meters; KGEY, Denver, Colo, 204
meters; KGRC, San Antonio, Tex:
KPCB, Seattle. Wash, 521 meters
and WJPW, Ashtabula, Ohio, 1898
meters.
Despite the steady increase in the
number of stations Congress remains
at a standstill on radio legislation
members of the joint conference
committee having failed to reach an
agreement, predicted many times by
members in the last three weeks
Senator Dill and Representatives
White, nevertheless, are still work
ing on the composite radio bill. ana
action may come before March 4,
when Congress will adjourn.
Rarely are reception conditions as
good as they were last night. Stations
north, south and west responded to
careful tuning with clarity and vol
urne Then, too, there was an almost
total lack of static and the whistling
interference from heterodyning seem
ed to be at a minimum.
These favorable conditions gave the
DIX hunters a glorious opportunity to
log seldom heard stations and to bring
in some of the more distant ones. In
the former class were heard WQAO at
Cliffside, n. Y, and WNOX, Knoxville.
Tenn. both of which were broadcast
ing church services.
The signals of PWX, Havana, Cuba,
which have become a regular visitor
in these parts, were heard again with
clarity and strength. Among the
other stations recorded were WSUI,
Iowa City, Iowa; WJR. Detroit
WAY, Cleveland; WLW. Cincinnati,
WAAT, Jersey City; WSB, Atlanta
VIVID, Mooseheart. ILL.,, and WEBB
and WJAZ, Chicago.
One of the compositions which will
be heard by radio fans who swing the
dials of their receiving sets to
pick up WRC when the A. & P.
Gypsies broadcast tonight will be
"The Rosary by Nevin. This COM
position is one of the famous heart
songs of the musical realm and has
recently been sung by such distinguish
er artists as Ernestine Schumann-
Heink and John Mccormack. An
other unusual and interesting event
to be found on the program of the
Gypsies is a medley of old Hungarian
gypsy songs and dances. In addition
to the 10 instrumental selections by
the orchestra, Harry Horlick and John
Barnes Wells, tenor, will be heard in
two solos.
Hires Harvesters, another WRC
feature. will play some of the folk
songs of the "Hill Billy" country of
North Carolina and West Virginia.
From New York WRC also will draw
the weekly tabloid presentation of the
WEAF Grand Opera Co. which has
arranged TO sing for the first time
Won Weber'S Der Freischutz."
Other attractions scheduled by WRC
tonight include the weekly Emerson
hour and a late dance program by
the Swanee Syncopators.
In an effort to improve it's afternoon
broadcasts. WRC has arranged to
transmit the regular Monday after.
noon concerts of the Navy Band at
the Washington Navy Yard, the first
of which went on the air this after
noon. A dance program by the Hof-
brau Orchestra in New York will be
broadcast this afternoon at o'clock
and will be followed by dinner music
from the Waldorf-Astoria in New