Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-22
TORCED to abandon broad
~ casting of the Sunday after
noon services at Washing

II NOON SSENlCCS az washing
ton Cathedral by a newly
adopted policy of the National
Broadcasting Co., WRC will turn
the programs over to WMAL, be-
ginning July s.
Under the new N. B. c. policy,
its religious broadcasts will be
confined entirely to those spon-
sored by national groups. These
programs also will have to origi-
nate in the broadcasting studio,
for the N. B. c. does not propose
to make any more pickups from
individual churches or cathedralS.
Continuation Of the broadcast
ing of the Cathedral services was
made possible by the cooperation
of M. A. LeeSe, owner of WMAL,
and the Columbia Broadcasting
System, and the Cathedral off,
Gals already have expressed their
appreciation. The services will
replace the regular cathedral
hour on WMAL's Sunday pro-
grams.
Washington Cathedral is be-
lieved to be the first cathedral in
the world to utilize radio regu-
larly for the dissemination of
Christian teachings. It's services
have been broadcast every Sun
day since the Fall of 1928. The
first broadcasts were carried by
WCAP, and after it ceased opera
ton WRC took over the broad
casting and has been doing it ever
since.
WMAL'S audience is familiar
with the Cathedral services, as
this station has been the origi-
mating point during the W~t year
for number of special ceremon-
les broadcast from Mount st. Al
ban and distributed over the Co.
lumbia network. One of the most
notable was the three hour serv-
Ice on Good Friday, said to be the
longest religious service ever
broadcast by Nationwide chain.
In contrast to many church
broadcasts which consist merely
of the sermon, the Sunday after
noon services from Washington
Cathedral are on the air in their
entirety. Beginning with the pro-
ceSsional and continuing with
ayers, responsive readings,
Scripture lessons, hymns, an
thems and sermon, the Protestant
Episcopal prayer book service for
evensong is followed to the final
note of the professional.
MUSICAL elements of the services
are Feovided by TIE Cathedral
choir of men and boys, under the
direction of Edgar Priest, organiSt
and choirmaSter, accompanied in
the Cathedral by the Bethlehem
Chapel organ and at the Peace
Cross by an instrumental quartet.
The choir is noted throughout the
country for the excellence of its
church music.
COMMERCIAL television sets
have had their coming-out
party for the trade. Whether that
means anything in the effort be-
Ing made by radio sight to obtain
a position in the home alongside
Of that now occupied by sound
broadcasts cannot be~forecast.
Nevertheless, it is regarded as
important in view of the fact that
the annual trade show of the Ra-
dio Manufacturers Association at
Atlantic City gave it sufficient
recognition to assign places to two
manufacturers to demonstrate
what they have. Television has
had opportunities to appear at
public shows, but this was the
first time that the trade has had
a peep at it at the annual private
exhibition.
RADIO engineers are patting
themselves on the back these
days. They feel they have licked
quite a few problems involved in
SynchroniZed broadcaSting-that
Is, operating two stations with the
same program on the same wave
length without a lot of interior
ence.
The engineers have done it sue
cessfully with WHO in Des Moines
and VOC in Davenport on 1000
kilocycles, and they believe that
what has been done in this case
can be duplicated In others.
Synchronized broadcasting car
ries with it the hope of operating
more than one station on a single
wave length without creating a
mess in the air.
The task so successfully accom-
plished with WHO and VOC
brings to light a method of syn
chroniZation somewhat different
than that tried heretofore. Briefly.
it consisted of placing a receiver
half way between the two stations
and keeping the transmitters on
identical wave lengths through it's
use.
Since the early days of broad
casting, engineers and others have
thought it would be possible some
day to operate stations transmit
ting the same program on a sin
gle wave length. Various systems
have been tried, but none, how
ever, brought as good results as
those obtained in Iowa.
NOW that some real progress
has been made toward syn
chronization, the day may not be
far off when, instead of chain
programs being scattered all over
the dial, they will be concentrated
in few places.
Even though only two stations
have heen Onerated toUether on