Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27
CANADIANS LIKE
PROGRAMS Of us,
American Stations Popular in
Domlnion-StatiC De-
vice to Test.
BY MARTIN CoDEL.

Reduce the powers Of the high-powei
broadcaSting stations in the United
States and an instantaneous howl VII
arise from Canada, listeners
That's tne word bought to Wash
i>gton by highly qualified observer
vim is close 70 CauaaaS moot radio
problem Much as Canada d' likes ia
admit H. the programs that cn1anate
fgCm American stations arr amons the
most popular OF those received regu-
llTiv BY many OF the 100000 owners
Of sets IL the Dominion.
The same authority is responsible
for the report that many Of Canadas
81 hroadcaSting stations arc near I'M
pcvcrisi11sevt lC3ai0g 70 3 growing be-
lief in that country that the govern
r3ept should take over the stations and
snsGate thea2 as q control
70 monono'v like The British Broad
casting CO. system.
Wants Own System.
The Canadian government is quite
sverSe 70 what It regards as the Amer
}can;za ton" Of Cana6a's radio audi
euCe. hence lis eaccrnesS 70 develop Q
Stronger broadcaStinE system Of its
own
There can be no protective tariff
or Ihe traffic carried By the ether chan
neis. and The advertising of American
products Ma the radio, although chiefly
indirect, Is resented in some quarters
There is no immediate thought q regu-
l2tiCn bv q radio commission in Canada,
as recent reports have indicated,
The report gained circulation because
Of the adoption 0f the plan of the Hon,
P. J r C2r6in minister Of marine,
to appoint three men 10 study Canada's
hroadcastirg problem and make recon-
nlarda lions to Parliament. The COM
mission VIII probably visit the United
States and Great Britain in the course
q its Investigations.
Static War Continues
Promises Of static elimination in the
re3r future are manifold, The acoustic
static Tediiceg invented by w. J Scott
O. washington VIII get z real trial soon
OF the radio biography circuits out Of
Radio Balboa of the United States
Navy, in the heart Of the region Of great
tropical static disturbances
Air. Scott'S first set is adapted only
70 single code frequency. bit he has
begun designing a set which he expects
q filter out static from the whole range
CT telephone frequencies.
D Buffalo concern, proposing to eStab-
hSh 3 radio telegraph network cover
ing The United States and competing
nth the wire telegraph companies. has
C5E3Ired authority to build experimental
stations at New York and Chicago for
the purpose Of trying out a static elm
1Ilator invented IN its laboratory on this
circuit
Al Pittsburgh, Westinghouse officials
are said 10 be guarding carefully the
facts regarding a static reducer. which
Is said 10 be so far perfected that 1t
nsay soon be made an integral part of
broadcast receiving sets manufactured
for the market
= Last week. the United States Patent
Once granted patent covering a static
eiIminator 70 Harvey H Ruckel of Pitts
hargF
Canadian Relays.
a Canadian broadcasting station.
CFCA Toronto. has beaten the Ma
tienal Broa6casting Co 10 It in rebroad-
casting Of programs received via the
short waves from abroad. For more than
2 %ear the n 3 C. has promised a
regular Anglo American exchange of
programs but its mueh-advertised
plans apparently have not gone beyond
the test stage Fading. it is said. has
been the chief difficulty
Station CFCA however. has reported
real success IN picking up and rebroad-
casting on is own wave length pro-
grams from London. and is promising
20 renew these programs as soon as the
Summer static subsidies.
frorv~iaht. 1928 br North American News
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