The Washington times., 1930-08-23

Four radio concerts by Leopold
Stokowskl and the Philadelphia
Orchestra will be heard from
coast to coast during the fall and
winter Of 103O-31; the National
Broad asting Company an
nounced today.
The famous conductor and his
symphony group, who made their
first radio appearances in q sim.
liar series over NB.C. networks
last winter, will again broadcast
under the sponsorship Of the
Philadelphia Storage Battery
Company. This seasons initial
concert will 60 on the air Sun
day afternoon, October IL, from
500 to 600 o'clock, Eastern
Standard Time. The program
will be released in New York
over WEAF.
November >16, Christmas Day,
and Easter Sunday Of 1881 have
been announced as subsequent
dates for the new series.
When StokowSki finally con-
Sented last year to appear on the
air with his celebrated orchestra,
he became intensely interested in
the technical problems Of orches-
tral broadcasts. Following the
conclusion of the 1929 series on
December 8, he spent twelve
weeks in the NB.C. New York
studios, studying broadcasting
methods with o. B. Hanson, man.
ager of plant operation and en-
gineering, and Gerard Ohatfield,
program supervisor.
N.B.C. officials estimate that
nearly so associated stations in
the United States and Canada
will carry the Philadelphia OrcheS-
ira concerts this season.
I am indebted to Eric Pal
lner Of the Grebe Company for
the latest news from the front in
the radio war now merrily wend-
ing its course over in the British
isles. The rank and file Of the
q radio fans of Britain are demand.
ing "jazz and humor" for their
Sunday programs, while the
British Broadcasting Company Is
remaining Steadfast in sending
out over the air what they think
the fans should have rather than
what they want.
The British BroadcaSting Com
pany's answer is given In this
wise: "Our programs are o. K.
They must be-for licenses con-
tinue to increase!" There are
row more than 5000, 900 licensed
receiving sets. But fallacy is
marked in the response, declares
Alan S. Hunter, well-known ex-
perimenter on the staff of ANA
teur Wireless" London.
"The increase in licenses"
states MIR. Hunter, ''is due to
greater interest in radio fos-
tered by the new powerful
sets capable of cutting out the
British BrOadcasting Company
and getting foreign stations
for which we pay nothing"
In discussing what he terms
the ''big agitation" over the Bri-
tish Broadcasting Company's Sun
day programs, Mr.. Hunter re-
marks:
"You see, the trouble is that
Just 21 miles across the mas
tiest stretch Of water in the
Old World is Europe, where
Sunday is regarded as q feast
day far more than as q day
Of penance.
"The English traditions of
Sabbath Smugness are being
Rudely undermined by the
powerful European stations such
as Radio Paris, Toulouse, Brus-
scls, and HilverSum, stations
which can be heard in all
parts of England on very sim.
pie apparatus, two or three
tube sets. What is more natu.
raj than for British listeners,
surfeited with the British
BrOadcasting'S puritanical SUM-
day radiatiOnS, to turn around
the dial to these jazzy foreign
.erS?" And he adds: Nothing
will be done about 1t, though,
because the British Broadcast
ing Company is a monopoly"
1880 p. M.
WMAL - Humor, melody, re-
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