Evening star., 1928-11-09
REALLOCAT|ONSDUE
IN RADIO SUNDAY
DiaIing Habits of Millions of
Set Operators to Be
Changed.
By MARTIN CoDEL.

Any lurking doubt whether the radio
reallocation will go into effect as sched'
uled, at 8 am. next Sunday, may nov
be positively dispelled. Nearly every
broadcasting station in the United
States will be heard next Sunday anc
thereafter on new wave lengths or with
new power and time assignments. Ihe
reallocation means changed dialins
habits for millions of radio set opera
tors in this country and Canada.
Interest in the ALLEGATION project
ing radio reception conditions ever
AIKEN by the Federal Radio Commission
has been dwarfed by tie national
election. The project was purpoSely
delayed until after the elections, in
order not to disturb the role radio was
destined to play in the campaign and
N reporting the results.
All broadca5ting stations have been
informed what their new wave length,
powers and hours of operation will be
New licenses have not been sent to all
Of them on account OF clerical hand1-
caps The ALLEGATION order is in their
hands, however, and those that have
not yet received their licenses by tbs
mail will be authorized by the te!e-
graph to make the necessary shifts.
Some dissatisfied.
In the ranks of the broadcasters there
now seems to be general acquiescence
to the commissions order. There are
still some dissatisfied communities, like
Brsoklyn, N. Y, and some parts OF
Iowa, where certain .ations are to have
fewer operating hours than they for
merly enjoyed. There ar more dis
satisfied station operators, but while
many have sought and obtained hearings
before the commission on their COM
plants. none has yet seen fit to carry
his case to the coI-ts.
Even WGY, -henectady, one of tl1e
pioneer stations and with one of thc
widest audiences, on account CT ! :
superpower, is expected to adhere to its
new assignment. 1t ~oes on the wave
length of KGO. Oakland, Calf, opcr-
ating there until darkness settles over
the Pacific Coast, when it must sign
OF, on account of possible interference
The General Electric Co., owner of the
station, has been among the loudest in
its opposition to its assignment under
the ALLEGATION.
The only legal case pending does not
involve an ALLEGATION assignment. It is
that Of WMBB-WOK, Chicago, which
was ordered of the air altogether some
time before the ALLEGATION order. aLG
the owners of which contend they have
been deprived of their property withou
just compensation. Louis C. Caldwell
the commissions chief counsel, is now
in Chicago to argue issues before Fed
ePal Judge Wilkerson. It is expected to
be an outstanding test Of the validity
of the radio act and the commission :
powers.
Four Favor ALLEGATION.
Four of the five members of the COM
mission are unuualifiedly committed to
the basic plan of the reallocation. Its
general features are the clearance OF
40 of the so available channels for
high-power brcadcasting; the designa-
ton of 35 channels for interference
free operation of stations of interme-
date powers widely separated geo.
graphically. end the crowding of the
low-powered local stations on a few
wave leng he.
All of the commissioners favorable tn
he allocstion rroiect have ated, beth
formally and informally, that they are
confident the reailocation viii provido
improved radio reception, particular.
in rural America. BY improvement they
mean freedom from such controllable
factors as heterodyne whistles end
howls, G.; to crowding Of single waves
with too many stations situated too
near each other. They can, of course,
furnish no relief from such elements
as static and fading.
Chairman Ira Robinson's lone oppo-
sition to the reallocation, on the
grounds that it is too drastic and revo-
lutionary, has been overriddcn by his
colleagues, and he has consistently