Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01
@HE two great broadcasting
systems, National and CO.
lunnhia heralded the com

TIME two great broadcasting
systems, National and CO.
lumbia, heralded the com
= ing of the gridiron season
last week by announcing their
schedules Of foot ball broadcaStS,
the most extensive ever under
taken in radio history.
The schedules will take the ra-
dio announcers to all sections of
the country and assure sport fans
of radio "coverage" of every inter
sectional contest of importance.
Each broadcaSting system has Sc
lected its lace" announcerS to give
the play-by-play descriptions.
The National Broadcasting Co.
schedule contains 10 games, open
ing October IL with the Navy
Notre Dame and the Yale-Georgia
games, and ending December %
with the Army-Leland Stanford
contest at Palo Alto. Columbia's
foot ball broadcaStS will begin
September % with the Army-Bos-
ton University game at West Point
and closing also with the Army
Leland Stanford clash at Palo
Alto.
Despite the extensive schedules
arranged by each of the broad
casting companies. their broad
casts will not conflict in but sew
eral instances. In addition to the
Army-Leland Stanford game. the
only other contest which both of
the networks plan to carry are the
Princeton Chicago battle at
Princeton November 2.
Thus there will be more foot
ball games broadcast this season
than ever before, and new i'm
provementS in broadcast equip
ment to be used this year for the
first time undoubtedly will make
the radio accounts even more COL
orful than in previous years.
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Although there was no mention
Of the fact on the daily program
and broadcaStS went on as usual
without special notice, Tuesday
was special day at VOL by rea-
son of the fact that it marked the
first anniversary of the connec-
ton with that station of Peggy
Clarke, who is known to hundreds
of thousands of women in the
Washington broadcast area for
her personally conducted house
hold hour and her program OF
helpful hints to parents.
Five days per week since August
q, 1928, with only brief inter-
Jude during her recent illness,
Miss Clarke'S voice has gone into
the homes of Washington house
wives. The Peggy Clarke chats
are novel among broadcaStS of this
kind because their character is
closely allied to the personality Of
the broadcaster and because they
have never been, and If Miss
Clarke's authority continues never
will be, sponsored by an advertiser
or have advertising matter Of any
kind injected into them.
In addition to conducting her
daily program and her twice-a-
week talk to parents, Miss Clarke
is studio manager of VOL, con-
ducts additions, arranges pro-
grams and generally SuperintendS,
and is the center of studio activi-
ties. She is a native of Washing
ton, a graduate of the Immaculate
Conception Academy, member of
the Advertising Club and the So
roptimiStS and is well known
socially.
Paul Whiteman and his orches-
ira abruptly ended their broad
casting season in the West last
week, and are now en- route to
New York, where the weekly
program will originate Tuesday
for the Columbia Broadcasting
System.
Whiteman'S decision to return
to New York was reached when HiS
proposed picture, 1.-The King of
JsE1," met with weeks of delay
ard final poStponement because
of lack Of suitable scenario. White
man had been broadcasting week
by week from Universal City ever
since he and his orchestra made
radio history by their journey
westward on a special train which
left New York May "a and made a
de luxe trip to the coast, stopping
in the big cities along the way to
give public concerts as the guest
orchestra of the local radio sta
lions in the Columbia system.
The performances of the or
chestra from Station KMTR in
Hollywood have been the first
weekly series of broadcasts ever
sent over a nationwide network
from the Pacific side Of the coun-
try. Each concert has been broad
cast direct to New York over
leased wires and then rebroadcast
from the key station, WABC, tc
the entire Nation.
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The Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
TENS new Far West group of seven