Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
y COMPARTMENTS of Summer
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X static which all but ruin
- domestic radio reception
during this season Of the
year, certainly are not affecting
the quality Of foreign programs
relayed to the American listener
via the short waves.
On the contrary, international
radio reception conditions have
been ideal, and more and better
broadcastS from distant nations
have been served the American
listener listener DUR during the past fey, few
previous decade Of history.
Whereas Scant few months
ago q program from abroad was
novelty and aroused public &C
claim, such an event now hardly
causes q ripple in the ether waves
for the American listener. Pro-
grams from London, Rome, Toxic,
Berlin and other remote points
have become commonplace.
No longer are international
broadcaSts marred by elemental
disturbances. Elaborate technical
preparations which formerly were
necessary even to pick up the dis
tant short wave station have been
reduced to a routine formula by
dint Of the work of engineers OF
both the National Broadcasting
Co. and Columbia Broadcasting
System.
The development Of interna-
tional relay broadcasting has been
phenomenal. A year ago it was
regarded by the networks them
selves as the great new public
service that doomed on radios
horizon. It was hailed as a new
era in the cementing of good will
among nations.
Technically, about everything
that was predicted has been
achieved. The hands that reach
across the seas are the hands of
radio. Even now there Is a grow
ing sentiment for an international
language, with which all peoples
of all nations could become
familiar, and with international
radio as the teacher.
That even more programs Of
foreign origin, particularly from
nations of Europe, will be offered
the American radio audience in
the future seems certain. William
S. Paley, president of Columbia,
has spent six weeks on the con-
tinent this Summer perfecting
arrangements to this end. John
w. Elwood, N. B. c. vice president,
only recently returned from a
mission.
Accompanying this meteoric de-
velopment OF international relay
broadcaSting has been the public's
response in many quarters of the
globe to direct short wave broad
casting. Programs Of American
short wave stations, notably the
short wave adjuncts of KDKA,
Pittsburgh; WGY, Schenectady,
and WABC, New York, are being
listened to regularly by thousands
Of Latin Americans.
A new market for short wave
receivers has been created by this
development, and several domestic
have gone into mass
production OF short wave receivers.
1t is reported by one of these
companies that it is unable to
Many American listeners, like
wise, are experiencing new thrills
with their short wave sets. They
are picking up direct programs
broadcast by short wave stations
from other nations in line with
the ultra-modern radio style of
DX-ing.
So great has been the response
of foreign listeners to the Amer
lean short wave broadcaStS that
a renewed effort likely will be
made when the Federal Radio
Commission reconveneS next Fall
to have the experimental reStric-
ton on such transmission re-
moved. The commission has ad-
judged rebroadcaSting in the ex-
perimental category, and does not
permit the sale of time on the
air" by the licensees.