Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14
( A MOS N ANDY" are going
Il to T Englap 4 10 c.,.e g.,

n There is no cause for
alarm on the part of the
millions of American radio listen
ers in the announcement, how
ever, for they are going only by
radio, and the broadcaStS each
night will continue uninterrupted.
Amos n Andy are going to Eng
land only through special short
wave broadcast to be sent across
the Atlantic through N. B. c..
Short-wave tranSmitters and to
be picked up and re-broadcaSt by
the British Broadcasting Corpo-
ration Wednesday afternoon, De-
cember 81, from $3.50 to 3:45
o'clock
The special presentation of the
radio feature which has broken
all records for popularity in
America will be given to English
listeners as a New Year present
from America. 1t will be heard
in England at 1880 O'Clock, British
time, on New Year eve.
The broadcast marks a new
record hung up by the lovable
pair of blackface comedians, for
it is the first time any regular air
feature ever has been sent across
the Atlantic. The special broad
cast will not be a sponsored pro-
gram, and will carry no adver-
Using message to English audi
enceS. In the broadcast Amos m
Andy will present a sample pro-
gram written especially for the
event, with no attempt to follow
the story being presented to
American radio audiences nightly.
WITHIN three or four months,
\ probably as early as March l,
the first actual day-by-day syn
chroniZation of broadcaSting sta
tions will be tried. National
BroadcaSting Co. engineers are
confident enough of their newly
developed method of having two
or more stations of high. power
and in close proximity of one an
other broadcast on the same
channel to have laid a plan before
the Federal Radio Commission
which, if successful, will doubtless
point the way to a reorganization
some day of the whole broadcast
structure.
Stations VITO, Hartford, and
VIDAL, Baltimore, now share the
,060-kilocycle frequency, one re-
manning silent on alternate days
while the other is on the air. If
they operated simultaneously, the
one with $4,000 watts of power
and the other with 10000, the
heterodyning whistle would be so
great that neither would be heard
effectually. By the new scheme
both will stay on the air full time,
but each will use two wave
lengths. Station VITO will syn
chronize with WEAF, New York
key of the N. B. c., while VIDAL
is using 1000; VIDAL will syn
chronic with WIZ, also a New
York key of the N B. c., while
VITO is using 1860.
Aside from the high-power ex-
perimentS, it is the most impor-
tant technical development in
broadcaSting in several years. If
Hartford and Baltimore can
operate without interference on
the same wave length as New
York it means that ultimately one
wave length can be used to convey
a program to network Of sta
tons covering the whole country.
It means the ultimate develop
ment Of two systems of broadcast
ing-national networks and indie
pendent locals.
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WHAT to use instead of a baton
" appears to be a problem of the
Columbia Broadcasting System
orchestra conductors. It seems
almost anything will do, so long
as it is not baton. For example,
Mark WarnoW, leader of the
Cookies, swings a yellow pencil;
Nat BruSiloff waves his violin,
Vincent Sorey uses both violin
and bow to conduct his Gauchos,
Claude Macarthur prefers a
fountain pen, Howard Barlow
possesses wand so slender that
musicians in the rear of the
orchestra have difficulty seeing it,
Paul Whiteman, King of Jazz, uses
a bludgeon fully three feet long;
Freddie Rich of the Weed Chain
and Necco programs marks time
with his fingers plus the swinging
OF both arms, Billy ArtZ believes
in the conventional baton, as
do Julius hatfield and Channon
Collinge, but Guy Lombardo al
ways uses a hand-carved engraved
cane, which he received some
years ago as gift.
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HAVE broadcasters a property
right in the ether, since their
physical equipment isn't worth it's
metal unless they can use it? The
Supreme Court of the United
States. having heard the WCRW
and WMBB cases last week, will
soon decide. The appellants, one
having been reduced in power
and the other having been
ordered off the air altogether by
the Federal Radio Commission,
commended before the court that
the commissions actions deprived
them Of their property by limiting
or eliminating the use of it with
out due process of law.
Solicitor General Thatcher argued
that the rights of individual
broadcasters are inferior to the
sovereign right to regulate
even to regulate out of existence.
The appellants held that the
sweeping powers given the Fed
eral Radio Commission as we'll as
! the actions of the commission
were unconstitutional. It was the
first radio case ever to be taken
under consideration by the high
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