Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
lew YORK STATE now leads
| all States in the total
Y number of radios reported

At the same time, New Jersey took
the lead over all other States in
the proportion Of its families
having radios.
OF the 3,162,118 families counted
| in New York as of April /, 1880,
there were 1929, 1923 that replied
| in the affirmative when asked by
the census -enumerator whether
they had radios. This is STD per
cent of the total. With an aver
age of four persons found in each
family, the total number of home
| listeners in the State on that date
was 7,316,492.
New Jerseys radio census re-
veals that 6S.4 per cent of its
homes had radios, or 625,639 out
of 987,616 families. With New
Jerseys average, Al persons per
family, the number Of listeners
may be estimated at approx
mately 2,565, 200.
Since the number of radios has
increased considerably in the 10
months that elapsed between the
taking Of the census and its re-
porting, many of them initial in
stallations, 1t Is fair to figure that
at least 8 out of 5 homes in New
York and, perhaps, Z out of 10
homes in New Jersey are now
io-equipped.
The New York report shows that
the five boroughs of Manhattan
have a total of 1,021,6 radios
among 1,728,695 homes, or SOL
per cent, while the New jersey re-
port shows that Newark has $1,000
Of its los, 1893 families, or 54.4 per
vent, equipped with radios. New
York diSplaceS California for top
ranking, that State having re-
ported $685. families having
radios. Ohio now ranks third,
with 910,767; Michigan, fourth,
with 500, 1876, and Massachusetts,,
fifth, with 590,105.
New Jersey, with 63.4 per cent,
diSplaces Massachusetts, for high
ranking in the percentage column,
showing the highest ratio of
radios to homes of any other
State in the Union. Massachu-
sets proportion was 57.6 per cent,
and 1t now goes into second place.
Rhode Island Is now third, with
ST. per cent; Connecticut, fourth,
with $40 per cent; the District
of Columbia, fifth, with $50 per
cent, and California, sixth, with
SIG per cent.
Ali of the States are now re-
ported, with the exception of
Illinois and Pennsylvania, whose
figures will be announced shortly.
Early estimates are that Illinois
will approach the 1900, 000-set
mark and. Pennsylvania will run
approximately 100000 sets. Thus
the total for the United States
will exceed 12,500,000 sets, which,
with four each to the family, will
mean an audience of at least So
600, 000-and that figure is as Of
10 months agoi
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CTARTLING claims made a year
- ago by Philo T. FarnSworth,
youthful television experimental
of Salt Lake City and Los Angeles,
that televiSion could be trans
mitted on channels even narrow
er than those needed for ordinary
voice broadcasting, Is now amend
ed by that inventor himself.
Channels many times that width,
Mr.. Farnsworth has now con-
cluded, are necessary for the
transmission through space of
images of good detail and sus-
tanned entertainment value.
This statement was made by
Mr.. FarnSworth at his first ap-
pearance before the Federal Radio
Commission since the general
conference on television held a
year ago, at which the status of
the visual art was appraised and
judged by Federal radio authori-
ties as still highly experimental"
Then, he appeared as an indie
pendent. Now he is associated
with Philco, which seeks permis-
sion to invade the experimental
television field.
Questioned about his statement
that televiSion could be broadcast
on bands six or eight kilocycleS
wide, Mr.. FarnSworth said he had
not worked out the details at that
time. He insisted, however, that
his system, employing a cathode
ray tube rather than mechanical
scanning, permitted operation on
channels much narrower than
those demanded by other meth
DDS. Philco seeks assignment to
the regular television band OF
2,750-2,850 kilocycles, and to the
ultra high frequency ranges
above 5000 kilocycles. Television,
he said, will ultimately go on
waves affording Zine Of sight"
transmission.
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A MECHANICAL device, through
IA the use of which Ted HuSing
can determine almost without
fail the player or players taking
part in every play during a foot
ball game, has been perfected by
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