Evening star., 1932-01-31
IEW broadcasting stations
continue to go into opera
\ ton along the Mexican

DOrQer, SenQlng out pro-
grams in both English and Span
ish and leading to more interfer-
ence in the wave lengths used by
American and Canadian stations.
With Senator Dill raising the is
sue in the Senate, where he in
tends shortly to introduce a reso-
luton calling upon the State De-
partment to explain its attitude of
apparent Indifference toward the
problem and to prepare to call
Mexico into treaty-making con-
ference, it Is likely that the sub
ject will be very much in the fore
front of radio in the months to
come.
Latest Of the new stations re-
ported to have gone into opera
ton along the Mexican border is
XEFD, located about halfway be-
tween Tia Juana and Aqua Cali
ente, within a few miles of the
border. Operating with 800 watts,
it has gone on the 1920 -kilocycle
channel, which Is an American
clear channel licensed to KYW,
Chicago, with 10000 watts. Inter
ference reports are not yet avail
able, but the station, while
licensed, to a Mexican corpora
ton, is obviously designed to
cover the Southern California
territory. Another high-power
station also is reported building
in Tia Juana.
DR.. John R. Brinkley's XER at
Villa Acuna, just across the
border from Del Rio, Tex, where
it has its main studios, has been
in operation several months on
735 kilocycles, halfway between
the Canadian clear channel of
730 kilocycles, assigned to CKAC,
Montreal, and the American clear
channel of TAO kilocycles, as
signed to WSB, Atlanta. Operat-
ing with a licensed power of
$4,000 watts, it is the highest
power station on the Continent
and is already interfering on the
two adjacent channels.
At Juarez, opposite Ell Paso, is
XEQ, operating with 1000 watts
and soon going to 5000 watts, on
750 kilocycles, which is the clear
channel now assigned to WJR,
Detroit, recently increased to
/ 10000 watts to override interfer-
ence. At Reynosa, just opposite
McAllen, Tex, is XED, operating
on 965 kilocycles with 10000
watts. On $50 are five Canadian
stations and on 970 are KJR,
Seattle, with 5000 watts, and
VIGIL, Chicago, with 1900 watts.
These are the border stations
only, and = half dozen or more
others are supposed to be in
course of construction. Among
Mexico's IS or more other sta
tions, there are others which have
"squatted" directly or near United
States-Canadian channels, but
for the most part their powers are
low enough to preclude interfer-
ence. Since Mexico has indicated
that it intends to back up its
licensee-and it is licensing new
stations freely-it is apparent
that the subject must shortly be-
come a matter for international
negotiation.
\
TAN the radio exert any influ-
~ ence toward the correct pro-
nunciation of the Kings Eng
lish" in the schools? British
Broadcasting Corporation au-
thorities propose to find out and
to that end are conducting an
experiment in the teaching Of
English speech by radio. 1t con-
sists of a course bearing the title
Kings English" which A. Lloyd
James began last September and
is continuing until next July.
The pronunciation of 80 children
from the first year of London
primary school was recorded by
the British Linguaphone Destitute
last September. The child ~-l were
then divided into two specially
graded groups. One of these
groups is to follow Mr.. James
course for the whole year and the
other is to pursue the ordinary
school routine.
When the broadcast course Is
completed next July, the pro-
nunciation of both groups will
again be recorded and the records
compared by phonetic experts.