Evening star., 1927-11-19
TOO BROADCAST|NG
CHANGES ORDERED
Many of Shifts Made in Week
Designed to Clarity Dis
tance Reception.

All in all. the Federal Radio Com
mission this week has ordered about
100 broadcasting shifts. more than half
of which are designed to clarity long
distance reception for those listeners
who dial their sets within the newly
established "non-heterodyne band" of
freuuencies between 600 and 1000 kilo-
cycles 4997 TO 299.S meters). The
task is not vet complete, for within
the band at least IL channels remain
To be cleared while outside the band
an effort is being made to improve re-
ception on many more wave lengths.
The commission has announced it.
self satisfied that, when the % wave
lengths are cleared under it's orders,
effective December l, lonG-distance re-
CeDtion win he vastly improVed-So
much so, it suggests. that some of
the hiGh-powered stations on favor
able hroadCaSting nights will be heard
all the way across the continent. In
its judgment, December l will be the
hay-day of rural and remote listeners
and the great army OF D\ fans, while
the city listener should be able to Sc
loct 4 wider range of programs Of the
better class.
There are IL channels between the
two limits of the newly-created non
Interference area. Five are used eX-
,lusivelY by Canada. Twenty-Five
We're cleared of all but the favored
stations, left to operate exclusively on
their particular wave lengths, ordered
to divide time with each other where
placed on the same channel, or so
widely separated by distance and time
and with such disparity in power that
their simultaneous operation should
not result in perceptible interference
Within the band. however, much
trouble may be expected on the II
uncleared channels. The ultimatum
to the stations occupying these is that
they must get together voluntarily
and determine upon time divisions.
IL this is not done before January /.
public hearings will be held in Wash.
ington before the stations now on
these wave lengths are relicensed. At
the hearings the commission will con.
slider arguments on the relative merits
of the respective stations and then de-
eide which shall remain on the chan
nels and which shall be transferred
The commission emphasizes the
point, however. that not all of the
changes are being made in the mon.
heterodyne band Other wave
lengths are being cleared also. par.
tlcularly by more divisions of time be-
tween local or neighboring stations.
But by the very nature of the situa-
ton, with only 80 channels available
for the 6S5 stations still operating.
there will be great crowding on the
other frequencies. Stations outside
the "non-heterodyne band" may aptly
be characterized as local" for their
best services can only be to their local
audiences.
Those within the favored band
really become national stations
and in adopting it's present course. the
commission in effect is following the
original proposals offered last Spring
committee and other experts who
by the American Engineering Council
urged the setting aside of certain ma.
tional" channels.
The third concert by the New York
symphony Orchestra, under the direc
ton of Walter Damrosch. and tab.
loid version of Victor Herbert's musi.
cal comedy, 1T Happened in Nord.
land" will feature the broadcast to-
night of WRC.
The symphony concert will include
the following acts of Wagner: Pre-
lude, die Meistersinger'' Sounds of
Friday Spell" from 'Parsifal'; EN-
trance of the Gods into Valhalla,"
from ''Das Rheingold," and the pre-
lude to the third act of "Lohengrin."
Jessica Dragonette, soprano. and
Colin O'Moore, tenor, will sing the
leading roles in the abbreviated musi-
cal comedy, which will be broadcast
as the weekly Philco hour. Others in
the cast are Doris Doe, contralto:
Mary Hoppel, soprano; Muriel Wilson,
contralto: James Wilkinson. baritone;
Charles Robinson, bass, and Stelle
Jamison, tenor.
Dinner music by the Waldorf-As-
toria and Mayfiower Orchestras and
dance music by the st. Marks Orches.
ira are among WRC's other attrac-
tons.
Edward D. Shaw, secretary Of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation. will give talk over WMAL
tonight on Buy Now-Mail Early
for Christmas" There also will be
a talk by Lieut.. Col. H. Edmund
Bulls on Singapore, the Crossroads
of the East
WMALs musical attractions in
clude a dance program, guitar duets
by Hilda Allen and Dorothy Thoms,
and joint recital by Francis p.
Heartsill, basso. and Fannie Shreve
Heartsill, soprano.
A program of popular music will
form the hours dinner concert this
evening of the Washington Radio
Hospital Fund Station WRHF.
The selections to be played have
all been requested by the stations
regular listeners. This policy of per-
mitting the listeners to choose their
program each Saturday evening will
he followed indefinitely, according to
BETTY Brewster. nro-ram director.