Evening star., 1927-04-11

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park.
Within a weeks time the game Of
"Where is that Station? VIII D1 begun
by inquisitive fans desiring to know
what has become Of many United
States broadcasting stations watch
have been forced to change their cham
nels. Among the shifts in frequencies
are all those stations which have been
using Canadian channels or operating
within 10 kilocycleS of them, and 100
others which have been operating on
odd or non-standard frequencies. 1t IS
but the beginning of a game soon
playable on all frequencies
Prior to April "a every broadcasting
station in the United States which
desires to continue in operation must
secure q temporary permit to avoid
operating without official sanction and
being liable to penalties set down in
the 1927 radio law. It is not likely
that all applicants will be authorized
to carry on with the same channel
and power they have been using or to
operate full time, or that any station
will be given even a temporary license
for more than a few months until
specific study of it's case has been
made by the FEDERAL Radio Commits
sion. Recent rulings of the Radio
Commission state that no station may
operate on any of the six exclusive
Canadian channels or within less than
10 kilocycles of them; that no non
standard channels may be used by any
broadcaster; that is, only frequencies
between 1900 and 500 kilocycles end
ing in zero. or 10 llilocycles apart,
may be used in the future.
Severe Penalty Imposed.
A severe penalty has been imposed
on the 40 United States broadcasters,
headed by WJAZ of Chicago, which
started the practice of Jumping"
Canadian frequencies not assigned in
the States. These stations, some of
them with high-powered transmitters
and offering good programs. have all
been virtually reduced to the ranks
Upon receipt Of their applications for
new wave allocations, they have been
advised by the commission that each
station which has been using a Cana
dian frequency must find a place for
itself which will not cause serious
Interference
So far each application has been
durned down and the commission has
suggested that the only frequencies
where permits are likely to be granted
them are those above 1860, that is,
one of the IA channels in the wave
band between 200 and 22o meters
This is a pretty severe jolt to the
stations being disciplined but they
were well aware that they would be
penalized eventually. it is felt The
drastic ruling may work both ways,
however, and the 62 well behaved.
low powered stations occupying that
bard will have to contend with 40
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higher power and perhaps better
knywn. But the newcomers must not
interfere with them. Listeners to
t1es9 Did occupants of the lower
clsnnels will be protected and will
stu he able to hear their neighbor-
hCOa .. ~. despite higher powered,
but Tore <MNtant transmitters, which
nv Operat> nn their channels.
''Res aced to Ranks"
Tie six G. ,adian channels cleared
als 1890 9ef $40, $40, 730 and $50
ki ycles.
! le 40 UnH q States stations ''re-
dlA ed to this tnks" as it were, or
fcHNad to seeI' Nannels between 1860
and 1900 kiMy..cles. follow: KGDX,
Shreveport, Las NFWC. San Bernar-
WNBY, Bloom gton. H.; KWKH,
Shra1eport; Wa w. Detroit; KGRC,
S!af Antonio, TNe. W5AZ, Mt. Pros
pecy, a.; WIRE 2f"oklyn; KGEQ,
Mh"a~qpolis; KGGNb Oklahoma City;
WI-4sJ. PatersbuT&,. Va; WFIW,
Horki1sville, Ky; iYNBX, Leroy,
n. Y; KOLO. DUranN Q. Colo: WITH,
Clearwater. Fla; KR d. Dallas, Tex;
WOAf(. LawrencebufR Tenn; VIEW,
st. Louis. Mo-; WINES, Harrisburg,
Pa; KSOO, Sioux ", lis, S. Oak;
WKBN, Youngstown, Dhio; WRRS,
Ranne.- Wis; WMBK. Gsamlin, Ohio;
WCRW. Chicago; KFt ), Santa Bar
5ara, Cliff. WABF, I Igleboro, Pa;
WTlIO, Ferndale, y III; WNBQ,
Rochester, n. Y; WMEJ4, Lakeland,
Fa.; WOK, HomewooC ~; KFKB,
Milford, Kan; KGCR. ~ yne, Nebr.;
NNAC, Boston; KFN Denver;
KWLC, Decorah, Iowa: HAP. New
York City: WAY. Clefels d; VILLA,
B2ca Ration, Fla. ano : RIO, Los
Angeles.
with its usual array of law YORK
attractions augmented by choli
oe the First Congregation hdrch'
VvRC will be ION the air &C uuoGa'
-. iron, o'clock to midnight NleE1
"Roxv" and his gang H. > Hi%-
vasters. the A. & i. Gypsie" .'d :.
tablold version Of the opera "i,2l 'ne,
90 be sung by the National CTana
Opera Co, are the regular weekly iea'
Yuras to be imported from New YORK.
GLADYS Rice will be the prominent
eoioist tonight during the roxy pro,
FRAN. The Harvesters have planned
a musical journey TO Jamaica, Whlle
the Gypsies viii feature excerpts from
"The Nagabond King.
WpC will open its program with
fhe concert Of the choir of the flrSt
CONGREGATIONAL Church, under the Oh
rection Of Ruby Smith Stahl. the
closing attraction win be q program
of dance music by the Swanee or
Chestra.
Static. code, heterodyne whistles and
every other form of Interference seem
ed 10 find their way into the ether
channels last night and kept Ok
dialers within a limited range. The
atmospherics alone would not have
restricted dialing activities, but IT was
the combination of the various forms
of noise that made IT exceedingly diff
ficuH to catch call letters and ever
snatches of the programs of the out
CT town broadcasters.
Signal strength was unusually good
ek.t only in the case Of the super
power stations was it possible to hear
program without Interruptions. The
weaker stations could be picked up
but not with any degree of satisfac
tion.