Evening star., 1927-04-21
FOCAL POINTS NOW
BEING SCRUT|N|zED
Radio Commission Interest
CenterS in New York
and Chicago.

New YORK ana Chicago, lOCal points
OF the greatest amount of radio con
gestion existing anywhere in the
United States. are now under the close
scrutiny of the Federal Radio Commits
Sion, with the prospect that much
81 the interference caused throughout
the country by stations in these cities
will be eliminated
Within two or three weeks the com
mission expects to issue shorttelm
licenses reaSsiging wave lengths 10
the go or more stations in or within
ho-uile radius of each of these cities,
Thea sSicmcuts viii largely follow fire.
otlencics now used with the stations
being kept At least 30 kiloCyCles apart.
This means that three or four sta
fious in each city may have 10 use
The same wave length. and thus divide
broadcast hours.
No particular favoritism Ia New
Work. and Chjcago is intended ina tax
ing up their problem first. As a mat
Ter az fact their problem will be re,
Garded only IN its relation to the
whole country. and no community Will
lse deprived p( wave lCnGjhs in order
~ supply. EheSe cities with more. New
York and Chicago stations are sources
~ perhaps the greatest amount OF in
reference with each other. and with
stations throughout the country.
1sy ordering several stations To use
she same wave lengths. the commits
sion expects that mutual operating ar
ra0sements NAV lee made voluntarily
anorS the broadcasterS themselves
Possibly this viii lead to consolida
tlons. and perhaps some stations will
te constrained 10 quit altogether, Con
solldations and suspensions will not
syispleaSe the commission. whose prob
lem is largely one OF dealing with a
multitude Of stafions--I32, TO be exact
Besides noting that power linita-
ti0ns Will be imposed on stations in
ghichN populated residential sections
abe commission i'm its latest pronounce
rnent has ordered II portable stations
throughout the country to discontinue
operating unless they take fixed To-
cations, thus still further reducing the
number Of stations with which it must
deal.
Meantime before the license stage
Is reached. the issuance of temporary
operating permits continues apace
with q number of changes being made
daily. The latest issue discloses two
more stations required 10 move off
Canadian freqBencies. Station WNAC.
Boston was ordered 10 change from
e9T.l kilocycles 10 G7O, or from $50
meters to 437.5. Previously il was op-
Grating within the prescribed 10-kilo-
cycle limit Of. Canada's exclusive GEO
llilocycle frequency It's power was
unchanged at 500 watts. Station
kFkB. Milford, kans.. was required
10 shift from G90 10 1870 kilocycles.
4 1ts-
power was boosted from 1000 10 $500
watts.
Broadcasting Of the away-from home
games Of the Nationals will be started
by WRC this afternoon with the open
Ing contest in Boston with the Red
SoX. A play-by-play description win
be given by Thornton Fisher, noted
sports writer.
The games will be broadcast from
the studio OF The Star. where Mr..
Fisher will receive a telegraphic ac-
count direct from the bali park over a
special leased wire. All Of the games
VIII be broadcast through the courtesy
Of Charles Schwartz q Son, with the
cooperation of The Star.
Stuart Ross, concert pianist, and re
cording artist, will be the star of the
AAbk IlOuI vi sluE4Es W ~ > oAkStdlu-
ing musical attraction tonight. This
will be followed by the Emerson Hour
of Music.
Only one Of WRC's features, the
Gliquot Club Eskimos, will come from
New York. The other musical attrae-
tions, however, include a concert by
the Mayfiower Orchestra and a dance
program by the lie Paradis Band.
An interesting feature of WRC's
famous Pennell exhibition in the Lii
brary Of Congress, by Alice Hutchins
Drake. The exhibit includes litho-
graphs etchings. pasteds and aqua.
tints left TO the library by Joseph
Pennell
Terrific crashes Of static intensified,
with each flash of lightning during
the electrical storm. forced most dial
ers away from their sets last night
The disturbance was so intense that
it interfered at times with the sig
mails of WRC.
The static and electrical eruptions,
however, did not completely obliterate
the ether Of signals. Amid the
crashes, a few stations could be tuned
with sufficient volume for identiffca-
tion during the infrequent lulls in the
barrage of noise.
The atmospheric conditions were
certainly not conductive TO good re
ceptlon. 1t was a wise dialer who
stuck to WRC's program.