Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
r INTERNATIONAL exchange of
radio programs has passed
from the Sturt stage into tho

radio programs has passed
from the stunt stage into the
Il classification of established
service, The transition was rapid
in so far as public knowledge of it
went.
First indications that radio en-
gineers had conquered the more
serious problems of international
broadcaSting came when the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. scheduled
programs from England, Holland
and Germany several weeks be-
fore Christmas, the day set for
the initial program exchange.
That transition had taken place
was thoroughly established when
the same organization, as we'll as
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn, began a series of reports
from London on the progress of
the five-power Naval Conference.
It is hard to realize that the
first network rebroadcast of a
program originating across the
Atlantic happened just a little
more than a year ago. On Feb
ruary l, 1929, the N. B. c., with
less than three hours notice, sue
ceSSfully picked up and rebroad-
cast a symphony concert from
London through a network of 30
stations. In July of that year
Thanksgiving services for the re-
covery of King George of Eng
land in Westminster Abbey in
London were rebroadcaSt. The
same morning program origi-
mating in Sydney, Australia, was
picked up and went over the
American network.
Later came the broadcast de-
Scription of the Schneider Gun
races. Then, in October, a pro-
gram from Holland was rebroad-
cast, and just before Christmas
there came a program from Ger
many. But Christmas day shat
tered all previous records with
programs from Holland, Germany
and England in rapid succession
New Year eve brought more
programs from abroad. Then
when the Naval Conference open
ed in London January 81, radio
outdid itself.
So much for the history Of the
past year. What wasn't chroni-
cled extensively was the expert
mental work and the DEVELOPMENT
of Short-wave transmission dur
ing the nine years preceding the
initial broadcast from London
Engineers believed that they were
working on an epoch-making de.
velopment in radio. It was such
a big thing that they were afraiC
to talk about it. Hence little wa!
said to prepare America for inter.
national broadcasting until {
proof of what had been accom-.
pliShed was available. Even ther
the engineers were extremely con.
sentative in their predictions o.
what might be expected in tn,
| future. Never once did their mos
optimistic predictions come up tt
what actually had been accom-
pliShed.
Even now the engineers ar,
conservative about what to expec
from foreign radio studios. Som
of them believe that several year
must elapse before foreign pro
grams are rebroadcaSt on a regu
lar schedule. In spite of this con
servatiSm, both the N. B. G. ant
the c. B. S. are scheduling regu
lar programs from abroad, ant
more from the great European
capitals are being planned.
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IT seems to be the general opin
ion of leading engineers of tn,
radio industry that the presen
model receiving sets will not be
come Anticipated by outstanding
developments during the coming
year. Advancement will be made
they predict, in the greater stand
ardization of both nomenclatur,
and design of apparatus.
With possibly one execution