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same dial-settings, but in most cases
with increased volume.
The broadcast division, however,
has decided to hold up consideration
of this regional shift" until it can
consider along with it recommended
tionS expected governing the so-called
clear channel high power stations.
These recommendations are due late
next month. 1t is indicated that they
will encompass a plan to boost the
powers on rs of the 40 clear channels
to a minimum of $4,000 watts and to
an eventual maximum of SOC, 1000
watts-equal to WLW, the worlds
biggest station which has been broad
casting with half million watts for
the last year.
WITH rs stations operating with
W half million watts each. 1T would
mean that any of them might be
picked up by listeners throughout the
country, Just as WLW is today. More
than likely. the F. C. C. ultimately
will adopt the regulations making the
super power classification possible, but
without making it Immediately effec-
tive. Presumably one, two or even
five years may elapse before all Of the
stations go up to the projected new
maximum upon the channels ear
marked" for that purpose.
It is expected the F. c. c. will
q a
to be attended by all interested broad
casting stations, at which this entire
proposal will be discussed pro and con.
Afterwards it would consider the adop-
ton Of regulations making them
effective.
The plan for additional local stations
probably will follow the horizontal
power increase consideration. Un-
officially, it is indicated that three
channels in the band between 1900
and 1000 kilocycles will be opened for
more 100-watt stations, with perhaps
so to channel staggered throughout
the country. All of these stations
would be required to use identical
equipment in order to minimize inter-
| ference.
THESE are days when the "old
timers" of American and British
broadcasting like to reminisce-mostiy
young "old timers" though in an
| industry marked by the preponderance
| of youth among its executive personnel
For it was exactly Is years ago this
month that KDKA, Pittsburgh, went
on the air to broadcast the 1920 Hard
| ing-Cox election returns, and, staying
on the air on daily schedule, claimed
| for itself the distinction of being the
first station in the United States to
broadcast regularly. 1t was also nine
years ago this month that the National
Broadcasting Co. was started as the
first permanent American network,
succeeding to the occasional hook-ups
of separate station. previously handled
by the American Telephone g. Tele-
graph Co.
KDRA was antedated by many an
American radio telephone expert
menter, and indeed was preceded by
nearly three months by what is now
Station WWJ of the Detroit News,
which went on the air on a daily
schedule in August, 1920. though
under another set of call letters. And
in England there were numerous
experiments with voice broadcasting
by individuals, which eliminated at
about this time in 1922 with the
first broadcast from Newcastle, the
first station of what is now the
British Broadcasting Corp-a trans
mitter that, in order to meet its
promised Inauguration date, had to
be mounted on a motor lorry located
in stable yard which was the site
of the "studio.'
ONE of the real pioneers of British
wireless, Arthur r. Burrows, who
is now secretary general of Europe's
International Broadcasting Union,
wakes reminiscent in the current
semi-annual review of the union over
some of his own early radio expert
ences. He recalls the transmission
from Arlington to the Eiffel Tower
of speech that he reported as a
member of the staff of a London
newspaper,