Evening star., 1934-09-09
1934-35 Model Receivers
Show Added Refnements
Higher Priced Sets Notable for Filtering Out
Extraneous Noises and Tuning
With Greater Ease.

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production is of necessity not al
even the cheap sets are going hi
Trade reports are so optimi.
looking forward to a boom year
enced since the 1929-30 peak of r
With 100000 homes already eq
hardly expect to equal their peak
gains ahead in replacements wi
and the usual run of new inStalli
Again this year there will be no
national radio trade show for the
dealers like those that have been held
in Chicago in past years. Radio
shows now are almost entirely local,
starting in September and continuing
up to the time of the Christmas buy
radios are now to be seen at the
Century of Progress Exposition in
Chicago, where the set makers have
undertaken to show advance models
to the public and to dealers simulta-
neously.
All-wave receivers and worldwide
reception continue to be the big ap-
peals this year as last. Sets are being
made more and more to tune we'll be-
yond the normal broadcasting band in
order to embrace the short wave
lengths on which many foreign sta
tons are daily transmitting interest
ing programs. Not only this, but the
fact that the old Radio Commission
recently opened up the 1,500-1 800
kilocycle band, just beyond the upper
end of the ordinary set dial, augur-
ing more sattions to be heard, at
least locally, is impelling the manu-
facturers to consider wide range re-
ception in the production of all of this
years sets.
Because so much interest prevails
in short-Wave reception, with
growing army of distance hunting
fans again evident, some of the new
sets have filter outfits designed TO re-
duce the noise level and bring in clear,
undistorted programs on the short
waves. More attention is being paid
also the dials, for greater convenience
in bringing in and identifying short
wave stations.
Although there are several televiSion
exhibits at Chicago and although not
able laboratory progress is being made
in the visual radio art, the commercial
emergence of motion pictures by radio
is still more or less stymied. Economic
considerations, chiefly the tremendous
cost of installing a Nationwide sys-
tenn of television, weigh as strongly as
technical considerations in keeping
experimental visual broadcasting," as
1t is officially labeled by the Federal
radio authorities, still in the labora-
tories.
From abroad come reports Of highly
successful national radio shows in
London and Berlin, where short-wave
receivers are also greatly In vogue. A
current report from Berlin that the
Nazi government is encouraging the
immediate establishment of a tele-
vision broadcasting system has awak-
ened considerable interest here Inter-
est in radio in Germany has been
greatly stimulated by Hitler's ministry
of propaganda, which sponsored the
production of standard cheap midget
radios so that everybody could hear
the talks of Der Feuhrer and his CO.
horts.
If Germany really undertakes to
establish television on a day-by-day
basis, it will be the first country in
the world to do so. The project will
undoubtedly be financed largely by
the government, which has the in
dustry under complete supervision and
which itself operates the entire radio
system.
WHETHER Tin Pan Alleys galaxy
" of song writers and publishers
have a really valid complaint
against what they have repeatedly
called the "push-button era" is to be
determined in a suit filed by the De-
partment Of Justice in Federal District
Court in New York last week asking
for dissolution of the American Society
of Authors, Composers and Publishers
and various related organizations. The
suit charges that its pooling of
musical copyrights is an illegal COM
bine under the Sherman antitrust
law.
For the broadcasters, at constant
odds with the society, the suit, which
asks for the invalidation of existing
contracts between the copyright pool
and users of its music, means that
Uncle Sam has taken up the cudgels
where their efforts heretofore have
failed in the courts and out The
broadcaSters have consistently opposed
paying percentage of their revenues
to the musical combine, the percentage
running per cent the first year.
4 per cent the second and per cent
starting September l of this year.
Elated over the fact that the Gov
eminent has started suit, the organized
broadcaSters will convene in Cincin-
natl September 1919 for the annual
convention of the National Association
of Broadcasters. With the copyright
situation in other hands, they will
concentrate on other subjects. notably
the forthcoming hearing before the
Federal Communications Commission
on the demands of educators religious
organizations and other non profit