Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-09
FIRST RADIO SHOW
DUE IN FAR WEST
San Francisco Exposition
Opens August 10, Garden
Exhibit September II.
BY MARTIN CODEL.


The season of the radio shows is In
| the offing. bringing with 1t suspicious
! exhibitions of everything that Is new In
| radio The first of the series of 1928
! expositions is the Pacific Radio Show
| at San Francisco, August l8 to 25,
Then comes the Radio Worlds Fair in
Madison Square Garden, New York
CITY. September II to %. This Is fol-
lowed bv the Chicago Radio Show, Oc-
tober to Ia
THESE are the great national exhibit
tions. but there are many more regional
shows held during practically the same
span of time in other cities OF the
United States. The radio industry,
through its trade associations, is lag
ging behind none of the longer estab-
lished businesses in boosting its wares.
Radio production already exceeds $780,
00O, 900 annually.
The radio shows are an annual mecca
for the dealers, jobbers and manufac-
turers of the country and for the hosts
of amateurs and home-Set tinkererS.
Millions of dollars worth of orders are
taken at each show. 1t was estimated
that 500 100000 worth of contracts
were obtained by exhibitors at the New
York Fair alone last year. Every one
In the industry, from the maker of re-
ceiving sets that sell in four figures to
the producer of new-fangled nuts and
bolts, is there to show his stuff.
out in California the Pacific Radio
Trade Association is making elaborate
plans for the fifth annual affair of its
kind. The Radio Manufacturers As
ISOLATION is sponsor of the shows in
New York and Chicago. Plans for the
first two have developed far enough so
that the managers are already making
great claims for the showmanshtp they
will call forth.
Finest of Year.
That is where the attention of the
average listener. unintereSted III the
crash trade details, inevitably is drawn.
Radio having claimed some OF the best
entertainment artists in the land, the
sponsors of the trade show make them
the occasion for broadcaSting some OF
the finest offerings Of the year.
Daily ail-Star offerings will be broad
cast from the Pacific show, where vari-
Gus leading stations will take turns at
conducting the programs A modern
radio studio. glass-incased in order to
give the visitors a chance to see the
inner workings, is being erected in San
Franciscos Civic Auditorium. 1t is
like the one installed in Madison
Square Garden for the Radio Worlds
Fair last year.
BY far the great broadcasting event
of the year, from the program stand
point. is the annual radio industries
banquet at the Hotel Aston, New York
City. This year it will be held the eve
ming of Tuesday, September 49, or the
second day Of the Worlds Fair. Like
each of the preceding four affairs. this
banquet will bring before the micro
phone the greatest array of radio talent
to go on the air on any one night of
the year,
Country Listens In.
The whole country listens in on this
annual broadcast. for every one whose
name Is stellar In radio appears. The
network Is invariably the record hook
up for the year. Last year there were
81 stations hooked up from ~0ast to
coast The Radio Manufacturers AS
sociation, the Federated Radio Arade
Association and the National Association
of Broadcasters combine 10 make 1t the
years best offering on the air.
Judge r.. F. Rutherford'S CESSATION
hook-up forsNhis address before the In
ternational Bible Students Convention
last Saturday is the record for chain
broadcaStlng so lar this year. herpeft
Hoovers acceptance speech out of Palo
Alto next Saturday may exceed this
for many. more stations are asking TO
be hooked up with the 85-station net
work originally booked. Even If the
number for the latter goes beyond 100,
the managers of the industries banquet
intend to make their affair the usual
annual record.
Linked from 10 to IL pm, Eastern
notwithstanding time they will have all
stations of the Red. Blue and Pacific
Coast networks of the National Broad
casting Co, the 20 stations of the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System and other
stations among the 200 members of
the National Association of Broadcast
ers broadcasting the entertainment
from the Hotel Aston banquet hall.
Every wave length in the broadcast
spectrum will carry the program. The
most popular announcer from each of
the four networks will ofiiciate. At
the banquet itself only about $500 in
vited guests will be accommodated, but
the audience will number millions.
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