The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 60

BROOKLYN miLY EAGLE, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930, tions to use phonograph recordings is considerably lessened. Dramatic sketches are becoming more com Radio Industry in Brooklyn Workers mon. Improvement usually, of course, Is gauged by listener response, which la on the Increase all the time. It is quite possible that a sharp increase In listener re would change the Radio Their Output I Valued Commission's attitude to a consider able degree. REVERTING TO TALK i at Over riv ami Television, as a feature of air entertainment hardly seems likely, snorts of Sam Gellard director of WLTH, to obtain a tele QiiarlrrMiilioiiDollare vision license from the Federal Radio Commission failed when en gineering counsel advised against it.

Brooklyn's Only Hope It seems apparent that Brooklyn's only hope for one large broad casting station would come through the failure or abandonment of one or more and their absorption by another. I 7 "There Is room enough In this community for two stations of larger power on a non-interfering wave. Give two of us six months with these allowances, and If we don't Justify our position then, we should go off the air completely," says Sam "ClT(r'- l-tiV ill i flX I Mrf; jf Jj i i Key I fat IL (i CJellard, president of WLTH, which is located In the Eagle building. The possibility of success of one larger station in the borough Is indicated by the results obtained by the courtesy agreement of WBBC By JOHN SKINNKH Eleven tho'i-sand, eight hundred and forty-two wage earners receiving a yeurly sum of U.ulB.OuQ. That's wliul radio manufacturers do for Biooklyn, according to the latest lljures avullttblo to the burougli's Chamber of Commerce.

These more than ll.ouo workers put on the mnrket over six and one quarter million dollars worth of apuaralus. all of the 14 munulaetiueii who employ these wafce earners devote themselves entirely to the production of radio aupiitutus Solely, five of them, make radio a secondary product. these figures were complied radio niuuulactuie in this community has experienced a decline. In Brooklyn, as hi every other radio manufacturing city, the effects of absorption and strong competition from such corporations as the Radio Corporation of ie and General Motors are lelt. AKain.

while Brooklyn may well be regarded as a great listening center, as a broadcastuig center when compared with Manhattan it becomes relatively unimportant. hax la stations, with a tital licensed power of 141,250 watts. Brooklyn has six, with a tolal lieensed power or 3.100 waits. Mliese figures are not to be regretted, however. Three of the greatest of Uiese Manhattan stations are key stations of nationwide networks.

They serve a wide radius. Brooklyn's stations as they stand today are intended to serve only Brooklyn, though they receive fan rtjrtil from radii of hundreds of inrlles. Efforts on several occasions in the past have been made to consolidate several of these smaller stations which Brooklyn has. For example. WBBC.

WCGU, WLTH and WSUI1 CONEY ISLAND SEA GATE BRIGHTON BEACH MANHATTAN PARK SHEEPSHEAD BAY GERRITTSEN BEACH KINGS HIGHWAY MIDWOOD ULMER PARK GRAVESEND MARLBORO HIGHLAWN and WCOU. The combination has worked out to such a degree, that they are at a loss to find enough tune on the air to meet the requests of advertisers, according to the president of WBBC, Peter Testan. Great Radio Audienee Though Brooklyn cannot boast a single large broadcasting station, it is generally felt that its radio audience Is considerably greater In proportion to the population than in the average community. The 1930 census will reveal accurately the' number of receiving sets in Brooklyn. Since this is a community of homes one of many substantial families, where such a condition exists inevitably one must find many sets.

Manufacturers, heads of broadcasting organizations and distributors are nlten willing to say that as high as 75 percent of the families of Brooklyn are owners of radios. According to the latest estimate of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, there are approximately people living In Brooklyn. Using the commonly employed estimate of between four and 4.5 persons to a family, one finds that there are some 522,222 families living in Brooklyn. If one Is willing to accept the statements of radio experts, one would conclude that there are Rlan James, colyum conductor and pilot (no pun he's an aviator too) of "Reverting to Type" In the Eagle every day, reverts to talk over Station WMCA every week. advertiser, which, of course, Is necessary for the life of a station.

With this in mind, efforts were made to merge these four stations, a move to which the Federal Radio all operate on the same wave length. For that reason, they must divide time, with the result that they average about 26 hours a week apiece on the air. Of necessity, their tune must vary from day to night, so thnt each may have his tair share ol the better broadcasting hours. such a constant shifting about of hours, it is difficult to have sufficient night tune to tempt the -f Commission would have been agreeable enough, were it not for the Internal strife and bUter feelings anion? the owners of the various stations, The nearest thing to a merger was the combining of WBBC and WCGU upon a tune-sharlug bai3. This pair ol stations, winch has its studios at 16 Court finds the doubled time immensely popular.

Even the question of one station out to another seems at present out of the question, since each charges that the oilier is demanding an exorbitant Added to that, the Federal Radio Commission constantly refuses to grant Increased time or power to these stations on the ground that their programs do not warrant it. Yet there is little question that these stations have shown improvement of late. Both WLTH and the WBBC combination have built up their transmitters to such an ex-lent that reception lias been markedly Improved. Programs, too, have Increased In quality, The tendency of these sta fcliitf radio sets in use in this borough. It might seem a curious fact with the interest In broadcasting MAC AND MIKE manifested by such a number of sets, that this population does not demand greater Brooklyn outlets tor its entertainment.

TELLING 'EM WHAT'S WHAT IN BOOKS Congratulate Maurice E. McLoughlin faces the mike excuse me, microphone every day and broadcasts through Radio Station WLTH the Brooklyn Daily Kagle's radio news service. TTnniE HBdmdodko7 IEagilie On' the Opening of Its Newt Building and Home We are grateful for the eighty-nine years of untiring service that the Eagle has contributed to the development of Brooklyn, and particularly for the numerous improvements that have come to our territory through its assiduous efforts. News Flashed Daily From Eagle Studios Regular Hroadcaslinj; STit'e Maintaiiietl Tliroiifjh lMI-Wrt klv Hook Talkn a Imperial I'ralun James on Air From Broadcasting is a daily leatine of unusual news happenings and a Sundays excepiedi of the I.aales "inning conimeiit on the dolnys tt Hroadwav celebrities. Theae talks program of service to the public.

W(jJllesdav Through Slaliun Wf.TIf, "Tlu ue.giig ut kj -jo o'cokk, and run Voice of Brooklyn." ft'om its studios hi tlie Eafle binlili.ig, liews flashes i Jo Ranson of the Eagle's staff speaks on current happenings in the world of books and authors before the WLTH microphone every Tuesday afternoon at 1:05 p.m. II nam mmi'ulM mi mm a MM BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME PRESIDENT. are broadcast by Maurice E. Mc- 1 Loiighliii, teaiure editor, according ta the following schedule: 'Monday and Friday, 1:30, p.m.; luesday and Saturday, 111 1 p.m.: Wednesday, 4, p.m.; Thursday, 10. 11 a.m.

In I lie brief space of five minutes Mr- McLouglilin presents' the hlftl'. lights of the world's news, lit everything, but always giving tiie e.stientiai tacts, so that a complete outline of I lie biK events covered in i the KiiBle is presented at each broadrsKt. The weatiier reixirt is die of the highly Important Icalui'ts ot this seivice. Tuesdw at 1:05 p.m. Jo Bliiron.

assisiant literary editor cf tlie Eale. talks on the new books, nd'ing lapul-hre coiiiiiieiil on bolh nation and uou-fli'tion. lie also adds Interesting bioaraphical sketches of the writers, telling of their lads an.1 pCMliarlties, in a snappv style tha stlnflliates the hearer's This feature runs about ten uhiniies. Don't let summer dut and dirt ruin your food furniture. Make up slip coven now.

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Phone TRIangle 7046 -Another broHdcasting service is the SMiii-weekly presentation to the listening public of the Eagles lost, and lound ads. Advertisers are not charged for this service, which Is oo the air on Tuesday hi 12:05 and on Friday at 2:40 pin This feature l.v in charge of Harry elih oise of Ragle's Classified Advertising-Department. In addition to these features at WLTH, Kian James, whose daily col-iinin. "Reverting to Type." has attracted attention all over the country. rlne a weeklv broadcast (hroiiu'i Pt'atinn WMCA under Eagle auspices.

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