Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-16
NEWSPAPER RADIO
SERVICE PLANNED
Will Provide Means of Gath
ermg Information of World
Events More Rapidly.

BY Consolidated Pr4ss.
Radios peculiar advantages are about
| to make available for every newspaper
in the United States the latest news
! from every locality in the world within
reach of a wireless station.
Just one move is necessary to give
i jhe newspapers and press associations
+ alike a Short-wave radio network that
will comb the universe for news. And
/ that is the word Co" from the Federal
Radio Commission.
Twenty exclusive high frequency
/ channels in the short-wave band two
months ago were assigned a group OF
The press for news traffic. with the pro-
vision that the entire newspaper frster-
nifty will be accorded the privilege of
using the facilities after due process and
authority from the commission.
X. c. A. Protest Overruled.
This assignment was over the protest
Of the Radio Corporation Of America,
which sought these channels and more
On August /. 3 press associations
and l3 newspapers were granted sta
ton construction permits But there
was no general organization to police
the communication channels and the
actual operating licenses were not is
sued.
Now the commission has received from
the law firm Of Cook Nathan e. Leh-
men Of New York a plan of organi-
cation. certificate of incorporation
under the laws of Delaware, set of
bylaws and a sample contract that
would be entered into between the new
organization and the newspapers. The
organization has adopted the name
American News Traffic Corporation. "
Donald D. Hughes. assistant general
counsel of the commission, is analyZ-
ing the data, and will submit recon-
mendations and findings to the COM
mission.
The press associations represented by
the proposed corporation are the Con-
solidateo Press Association. the United
Press and International News Service
The individual newspapers are the
Times. World and Herald Tribune N
New York the Christian Science Moni-
tor Of Boston, Chicago Tribune. Los
Angeles Times and Milwaukee Journal.
The Associated Press is interested in
t3lc Ly4dtA NAt lRuS llUt YET CllNCACa TIC
group.
Two Stations Ready.
Two of the. stations are about ready
TO operate Under the commissions
procedure a building permit must be
procured before the actual broadcast
ing license is considered or awarded,
The possibilities of this short-wave
network are great. Because of the
multiple direction in which radio waves
travel, in contrast TO the point-to- point
service of cables. dispatches can be
picked up by as many papers as have
the receiving facilities. At present very
few small cities and towns receive ede-
quate foreign news coverage, owing to
the high cost of cable service and of
telegraphis tolls. The radio network
will make possible complete coverage
by virtue of the appreciably smaller
expense. the greater rapidity of serv-
ice and the fact that large number of
papers may be served in one sweep with
out the RELAXING of the dispatches
The system of transmission, under
newspaper correspondent will file" his
story" with a commercial wireless
company addressed TO his paper or
papers Under the radio law none but
the station or stations to whom the
message is addressed may receive it.
Then. if the paper or press association
wishes TO get the copy" to its associat-
ed papers, ii can retransmit 1t over its
own station.
fcopyriRht. 1927