New Britain herald., 1927-12-27
Through he Static


 have sold the new radio, fans on their sets, It was replete with mu- sic of the highest type, in all de- partments, and conditions were uni formerly good. Chicago could be reached with one hand, it was that easy, and there was practically no static whatever. II was really the Lest weekend we have listened through in a long time. There was volume galore from all stations and there was clarity to send thrills Of pleasure through even the most har- d,ned listeners. weary or not.
 There seemed to he something do- ing all day yesterday and all day Sunday. The programs were more subdued on Sunday, of course, but they all reflected the Christmas spirit. Some Of the Chicago stations provide dance music for those who feared for the lighter type of pro gram. and the more local stations entertained with q high grade of semi classical and classical music. 1 The program by the Weymouth Post band. broadcast by WTIC in con- Junction with a chain, on Sunday night, came through slick. The band was supposed 10 be riding through the country in the back of great wagon, with Santa Claus and the an- nounCer on the drivers seat. They stopped at houses along the way and the band played music appropriate i to each occasion. There were popu- ] lar tunes, classical selections; some | of them were sad and some of them were gay, but all of them were well done. The theme was we'll taken care of and we had Santa's promise 70 make another such trip next year.
 WIZ braced itself yesterday morn ing and prepared to take over WHATS burden for good share ot he day, while the latter was laid uE with transmitter trouble. Seldom have we heard such colorful pro- .rrams emanating from any station during the daylight hours. From It o'clock in the morning. throughout the day, WIZ presented program after program and all of them were of a type hard to better or even du- plicate anywhere. At 10 o'clock q program of Christmas music was presented by a group of accomplish ed soloists, assisted by an orchestra At Il o'clock a versatile orchestra group appeared and provided an hour of novelty numbers, nothlne else, "Whistler and His Dog" "l1 The Clock Store" "Jn The To! Shop," Tn The Bird Store,' "Tromt onitis." and all the old favorltes 1T the line of unusual and trick num- bers, were played. Each lnstru' mant came into it's own at some time ill the course of the offering. I was q star affair and one guaranteed to hold the listeners attention. At l. o'clock the Waldorf orchestra wen on the air with a concert program tand at 1 o'clock E. A. Rolfe's danc' band came into hearing, followed a i2 o'clock by the sterling Mediter traneans. That description is just sample of what the listener coult hear yesterday. It certainly was gala Christmas in the radio world.
 Early Sunday morning we tune' in number of distant stations WHO, Des Moines. was loud, as Wer KWkE. Shreveport, La; 6-kN Tunuco, Cuba; WSM, Nashville WWVA, Wheeling, West Virginia.
 Although WTIC was scheduled t take several features from VEAL yesterday afternoon, the arrange ment was not interrupted when tn transmitter of the New York statlol broke down. WIZ announced severa times during the morning that tn sister station of the NEG would D off the air for several hours and W
 rather wondered how WTIC Toul
 get it's afternoon specialties. We for got the huge control system at 60
 Fifth avenue, the home of the Ma : tional Broadcasting Co. There Wer no interruptions in the broadcast' WIZ acting as the mother statlot All programs were scheduled | come through that station. in hook un with several others, anyway. f they just sent them from WIZ to tn network, instead of from NEAF. A lar as WTIC was concerned listener on that wave might never hay known that anything had happene lat WEAF.
 More anon.