Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13

|HE auStere Court OF Appeals
of the District has taken up
a study of radio termi-
Il nology. 1t has become, in
radio parlance, the trouble
shooter" for the country's broad
casting stations which are finding
fault with certain decisions of the
Federal Radio Commission.
The court never before handled
a radio case. A recent check-up
of it's docket shows that it has six
such cases now pending, with
others imminently threatened.
Thus, it has found urgent need for
a radio encyclopedia.
The first case, and probably the
most important, involves WGY,
the Schenectady station of the
General Electric Co., which has
contested the right of the COM
mission to assign it to part time
operation under the frequency
ALLEGATIONS of November II. Three
others, which followed shortly
afterWard, concern stations in the
Chicago area, WENR, WIS, and
WCBD, which carried a three
cornered fight between themselves
to the court, all attacking the
commission for its decisions of
December II. G. L. Carroll, also of
Chicago, filed the fourth appeal.
He was owner of a powerful Mobile
station, which suffered last July
when the commission revoked the
licenses of all portable stations as
not consistent with the equaliza-
ton provisions of the radio laws.
Recently WYNC, New York's mu-
nicipal station, filed a notice of
appeal from the commissions de-
ciSion denying it full time opera
ton.
Judges of the recently an
nounced good diction contest for
radio announcers have already
begun their task of weighing the
talents of all of the country'S $500
radio announcerS. The inspection
is being made in connection with
the gold medal to be awarded i'll
April by the American Academy Of
Arts and Letters to the announcer
most proficient In speech.
George Engles, head of the Ma
tional Broadcasting and Concert
Bureau has been delegated by the
National BroadcaSting Co. to CO.
operate with the so judges, and he
is planning to simplify the task as
much as possible by bringing sta
tons in distant parts of the coun-
try within range of the judges so
that the announcers in the smaller
communities may have as fair
consideration as those in the large
cities.
"It is entirely possible" Engles
said, that the medal may go to
a comparatively unknown an
nouncer associated with a minor
station. Personal popularity does
not enter into the competition.
Only excellence in diction, quality
of tone and cultural effect are
considered.
"Announcers will not know
when they are being heard by the
judges. Their routine hour by
hour speaking is just as likely to
represent the deciding test as
their effect on some special elabo-
rate program"
EngleS pointed out that the
broadcasting companies r well
aware of the tremendous influence
announcerS can exert and they
have for sometime been trying to
raise the level so that every an
nouncer can be looked to by the
public as a model Of correct die
ton, pronunciation and culture.
Announcing nowadays is a
highly specialized art" said
Engles. But it undoubtedly will
be a long time before nationwide
perfection of radio announcing is
achieved"
Louis L. Hooper, disbursing agent
for the Columbia Institution for
the Deaf, suggests that some radio
listeners, including himself, would
appreciate a list of the stations on
each of the three main networks.
Since the National BroadcaSting
Co. has ceased designating sta
tionS associated with it as "red"
and blue" network links, there
are now but two main chains.
Stations in the National Broad
casting Co. network of which WIZ
and WEAF are the so-called
"keys," follow: WEEI, WBZA,
WBZ, VITO, WAR, WTAG,
WCSH, WIFI. WILT. WRC, WBAL,
WGY. WGR, WHAM. WCAE,
KDKA. WTAM, WEAR. WV,
WJR. WLW. WSAI, WGN. WLIB,
WENR, WIS, KYW, xxx. KSD.
KWK. woo. WHO. WOW, WDAF,
WREN, KSTP. WTMJ. KOA,
MHAC WGM WMC WISH WHIT.