Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1925 — Page 14

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CLEVELAND RADIO STATION SOLD TO' GOODYEAR CO. Union Trust Company, Pioneers, Are Abandoning Broadcasting, Bw Times Special CLEVELAND, Jap. B—WJAX, Cleveland's pioneer broadcasting station, owned and operated by the Union Trust Company tor the last two and one-halt years, has been sold to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron,, officials of both companies announced. The call letters of the station will be changed from WJ&X to WEAR. The wave length and hours of evening broadcasting, will, however, remain practically the same as at present, and WEAR will continue to divide time with station WTAM. The transmitter, studio and towers will remain in their present location and the change from WJAX to WEAR will be accomplished without any break in programs. Through WEAR the Union Trust Company will continue to broadcast twice daily market and produce quotations, weather reports, financial news, and the like, for the benefit of out-of-town bankers, farmers and business men. This broadcasting will, however, be considerably condensed and will be done daily, except Saturday afternoon, between the bourn of 11:80 and 12 a. m. and 8:30 and 4 p.m. “In selling our station,” says Allard Smith, vice president of the Union Trust Company, “we feel that we are stepping out of a field which has developed far beyond the province of a bank. "We established our station primarily as a means of providing a financial and business service to our-of-town farmers, merchants, bankers and other business men—men who could use this service In a strictly financial way. In short, our broadcasting bore much the same relationship to the bank es our income tax department, our investment service department, or any other strictly service department of the—lnstitution. Then came the prblic demand for evening entertainment programs. Throughout the past two years the Union Trust Company, with the cooperation of the Cleveland News, has endeavored to fill this demand, although it was considerably outside, (he usual scope of activity of a financial institution." BRITISH RADIO - sINTEREST GROWS English Push Sale of Own Sets, WASHINGTON, Jan. S.—Popular interest in radio in Great Britain cotv tinues apace with that in the United States, according to a report from Consul RB. Mao Oates Also like the Americans, the British are intent upon promoting their own brand of sets and are trying to prevent the importation of foreign makes. "Although import restrictions will be dropped at the beginning of the year," Consul MacCatee reports, British manufacturers have formed a association and have entered into arrangements with the retailers with a view of restricting the trade to wireless goods of British make. It is understood that this association controls supplies to wholesalers and dealers, and that if a dealer handles wireless goods of foreign make he will find himself unable to obtain British made goods Naturally a dealer who is cut off from home supplies operates under a considerable handicap, and few of them would consider putting themselves in such a position at the present moment” More Power Wanted Seven-eighths of the communications to station WEAF in New York regarding its increase of power from 1,000 to* 1,600 watts were favorable, Che station reports. The rest, it Was found, suffered mostly from receiving set trouble.

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PUBLIC ATTITUDE IS IMPROVING—HOO VER

By HERBERT HOOVER Secretary of Commerce The greatest development in broadcasting during the past year has. not been in the application of new methods of transmission or reception, important as improvements In these lines have been. It is rather the change in public attitude. Listeners are becoming more and more appreciative of the real service of radio and increasingly critical both as to the character of the matter furnished thorn and as to the efficiency with which it reaches them. The whole broadcasting structure is built up on service to the listeners. They are beginning to realize t.Oeir importance, to assert their interest and to voice their wishes. Broadcasting must be conducted to meet their demands and this necessarily means higher character in what is transmitted and better quality in its reproduction to the ears of the listener. The broadcasters as a whole are alive to the situation. There is a growing realization on their part of the public responsibilities they assume in conducting an agency so greatly affecting the cultural progress of our people. The innovations of which we hear so much—national programs, wire Interconnection, short-wave rebroadcasting, increased power, and wired radio, which are playing so important a part and are destined to. have still greater influence for good—are based entirely upon the necesREPORT OFF LENGTHS Government Asks for Information on Waves. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—ls you catch a broadcasting station off of its assigned wave length, write to the Radio Bureau of the Department of Commerce about it, or to th? closest radio inspector. In this way you will render material assistance In helping to enforce radio regulations and keeping down Interference. When a report is received that a station is off its assigned frequency, an immediate Investigation will be made. If the report la found to be correct, steps will'be taken to compel the station to stick to the wave length assigned it. New Radio Panel Anew type of paneling, called pyradlolin, is said to have all the good qualities desired for its use. ft is said not to chip, crack, warp or shrink a*id can be easily out and drilled. Chess by Radio A chess match between Haverford College, Pa., and Oxford, England, by radio lasted five and a half hours. The moves were broadcast on an eighty-five-meter wave length.

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been devised, with the plate taken completely out of the tube and cold water run around It through a rubber hose. The vacuum, however, is maintained inside the tube. Photo shows the water-cooling process on high-powered tubes.

sity for meeting the growing popular requirements for better service. The demand will continue to increase, and new methods of efficiency will continue to be found to meet it. Beyond all, radio has begun to enrich American life by a real contribution to the home. It yet has far greater service to perform in this way and I believe the next year will, see g eat and more definite advance in this direction.

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RADIO THROUGH GROUND|D|FFICULT Bureau of Mines Reports on Transmission, fit/ Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. B—The bureau of mines, which Is making a study of underground radio transmission and reception, has just made public a report of progress which discloses that four factors combine to make underground radio transmission difficult. If underground radio transmission and reception can be perfected, it is

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