Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
Z new STATIONS
GRANTED LICENSES
Probably Win Be Last Author
lied TO Broadcast Under
Old Law.

Twelve new stations were licensed
last week by the Department OF Com
snerce. Unless there are few more
t,,ekv spri,cants who have their sta
t,ons ready for operation and their
manifestations approved. this dozen
,.F~shshlv will he the last authorized TO
broadcast under the old law.
Under the new law awaiting the
signature Of President Coolidge ali
active licenses must be renewed WITHIN
xwo months or the stations are re-
ouired 20 shut down. One thing is
certair--there will never be many
more than 80 active stations on the
air. the total number 10 date.
The Il new stations are chieny
small broadcssters. ranging IN power
from 10 10 so watts. although one.
WIN. at Hopkinsville, Ky. is rated
as a 1000 waiter. This station has
neen on the air for about 10 days, OPP
Grating without q license on the S56.S
meter channel. which happens TO he
one of the Canadian station alloca'
tons.
The other new brosdcasters follow;
wNRk, LIE Roy, y. Y, $50 watts,
s54 meters.
kGFM, Yuba City. Calf. is watts,
$50 meters.
KGFK. Hallock. Mimi, 10 watts,
226 meters.
wNBJ, Knoxville, Tenn. is watts,
SS5 meters.
wNBI. Peru. H.. 10 watts. ss7
meters.
KWBs. Portland. Greg. 10 watts.
200 meters.
wNBL. Bloomington. H.. Is watts,
495 meters.
KILT, Portland. Greg. 10 watts, $50
meters.
KGFL, Trinidad, Colo, so watts. 222
meters.
WALK, Bethayres, Pa. (portable),
SO watts. 2S5 meters.
KELW. Burbank, Calf. $50 watts,
535 meters.
Two Popular orchestras which broad
cast regularly through the red net
work of the National Broadcasting Co.
will be heard tonight from WRC, be-
ginning at $50 o'clock. They are
Hires Harvesters and the A & P
Gypsies.
The Harvesters have returned from
their tour of the world. and tonight
will play music composed by American
composers. The program will include
Little Gray Home in the West" "Ar-
kansas Traveller" and a group of
roundup Songs"
The Gypsies have scheduled two
well known operatic selections for the
instrumental portion Of the program,
overture from "Mignon," by Thomas,
and meditation from the opera
That's" by Massanet. John Barnes
Wells, popular tenor. has selected two
solos. Destination" by H. de Fonte-
nailles, and "My Indy LOU" by Lily
Strickland.
Tha third <..+, g.. -
With WEAF will be a tabloid version
OF Wagner's opera "Lohengrin," pre-
pared for radio broadcasting by Cesare
Sodero. The cast will include: Elsa,
Frances Sebel, soprano: Ortrud, Dew
ora Nadworney, contralto; Lohen.
grin. Redferne Hollinshead, tenor:
Telramund, Carl Rollins, baritone.
and the King. William Garfield,
bass.
The Emerson hour of music will
ne broadcast from WRC, beginning at
$50 o'clock. A special program has
Deem prepared by Eugene Martinez.
Radio reception conditions returned
70 normalcy last night after the most
hectic and protracted period Of static
interference OF the Winter. Signals
from all directions came in with fair
volume and audibility and were I'm.
interrupted by the atmospherics
winch put such a damper on dialing
activities the preceding three nights.
WBAP and KFQB, both in Fort
worth, Tex. were heard distinctly on
the loud speaker. as well as PWX,
Havana. and VOC, Davenport. iowa
None of these stations was tunable
saturday night. Among the other
broadcasters picked up last night
were WMBF. Miami Beach. Eia :.
WHIT. Philadelphia; KYW, Chicago
and WPCH and WARS of New YORK
which were linked together.
WAIU. at Columbus. Ohio, will tump
into the superpower group tonight
when 1t boosts its power from 500 to
1000 watts. A special program has
oeen arranged to mark the station
feJuvenafion. which will start at :
O'Clock with speeches by Gov. Dona.
hey OF Ohio and Mayor James T
Thomas Of Columbus.
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