Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
RADIO PRODUCERS
PREDICT BIG YEAR
Television in 0fing, but No Radi-
cal Changes Expected
Soon.
BY MARTIN CoDEL,

Leaders Of the radio industry are Of
one accord IL predicting salutary new
year for radio listeners. Not only do
they seek to dispel all fears that present
receiving sets will be rendered obsolete
by revolutionary improvement, but they
give assurance that better programs and
improved reception conditions are In
store
Television Is In the offinr and IRE.
dictions regarding the time of its in
production on commercial scale vary
from Two 70 1ve years. Until television
comes they are positive no radical
changes in receiver design will occur.
Changes will be in the nature of grad
ual rather than radical improvements.
Lnere Is not even prospect Of any
thing as new as the electro-dynaniic
1929. - -
There are no radical changes Of
which We know at the present time, {"
writes Maj. Herbert S. Frost, former
president and now merchandising chair
man Of the Radio Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION, that will tend to disturb
present methods Of reception or tend to
render obsolete sets that have been
purchased within the past year.
PROBABLY the outstanding achieve
ment In radio during 1880 from the
public's point of view will come from
the designers Of radio cabinets. We
Will undoubtedly have more beautiful
furniture. Just as the automobile in
oustry learned to give the public cars
tnat are highly attractive in their ex-
ternal appearance, so will the radio
INDUSTRY In 1880 strive to give the public
radio sets with cabinets that viii be-
come increasingly beautiful"
Maj. Frost estimated that between
100000 and 100000 new radio sets
went into American homes last wear.
Q. H. Caldwell, the former Federal radio
commissioner, now editor of a leading
radio trade journal, sets the figure al
nearer 100000, and reports that two
out OF every three homes in America
are still prospects for modern receivers.
The public, he says, spent $3.50 ,0OO, 900
on RADIO equipment last year, marking
record for the industry.
The same assurance about stability
OF receiver design Is voiced by Louis B.
7. Raycroft. head Of the radio division
Of the National Electrical Manufacture
ers' Association.
''The selectivity and quality of repro
auction Of the modern receiver" he
says, has advanced to the point where
improvement must be confined to pro-
gressive rather than revolutionary
changes"
That the industry itself is in a healthy
state is evidenced by the vast program
Of production upon which the Grigsby-
Grunow Co. Of Chicago, a leading pro-
Queer, has embarked. B. j. Grigsby
president, voices the opinion that 1880
models will be much like those of 1929,
except for small rehnements and better
values made possible by improved en-
gineertng and manufacturing methods.
M. H. Aylesworth, president of the
National BroadcaSting Co. Ia especia llv
elated over the success of recent ex-
changes Of programs with foreign coun-
tries. Broadcasts from Europe promise
70 become commonplace next year he
says, and programs viii soon be brought
over via the short waves from other
parts Of the world
The Latin American countries. al
ready recipients Of programs from this
country, offer a particularly fertile field
In this respect.
(Copyright. 1880. by North American News.
paper Alliance)