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...first organized attempt at broadcasting programs from England to the U. S. last week was only a partial success, apparently because of atmospheric interference. Eight high-powered British stations (at London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Glasgow, Aberdeen) were linked up by telephone into a "super-radio" system having a maximum energy of twelve kilowatts, operated from the Hotel Savoy, London, A program of band music and a speech by Senator Guglielmo Marconi was broadcasted. But very few Americans, amateurs or professionals, were able to receive the English program at all, and of the scattered...
...England radio broadcasting is a Government monopoly, administered as ai> educational agency, and all receiving stations are licensed at a fee corresponding to the number of broadcasting stations to which they desire to tune in. The beginning of what may be a similar development has appeared in the U. S. in the form of a "radio war" of independent operators against the four most powerful manufacturing and broadcasting corporations, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. The A. T. & T., which operates station WEAK, New York...
Then in 1919-1921, the four big companies entered into cross-licensing agreements which had the effect of dividing up the infant radio business, soon destined to rival the automobile and cinema industries, and of shutting off potential competition. The A. T. & T. (controlling the common stock of the Western Electric) acquired the exclusive right to sell broadcasting transmission sets. The Radio Corporation got the right to operate trans-Atlantic radio stations and ship-to-shore communication, and to sell amateur receiving apparatus. The General Electric and the Westinghouse got the plum of manufacturing amateur receiving apparatus, 60% going...
...career has few, if any, parallels in the world, and none, I think, in the United States. President Eliot has witnessed the development of railways, of steamships, of ironclad, of submarines, of airplanes, of breech-loading guns, of the telegraph, of the telephone, of two-cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From his severe and prolonged ordeal he emerges with faith unshaken...
During the banquet there will be an innovation in the field of entertainment. A radio concert will be given by Russell Coggswell, of the Bureau of Business Research, while between the courses the club orchestra will furnish the music and C. L. Varner 2G.B. will entertain with a selection of songs...