December 8, 1928
15
PRESTO-TIMES
R A D I O
DISCUSS REAIXOCATION
Letters and Telegrams from Fans at All
Points State Views For and Against
New Assignment.
just held by the RMA Traffic Committee. Capt. Wil-
Thousands of letters and telegrams have been
liam Sparks of Jackson, Mich., chairman of the com-
reaching the Federal Radio Commission each day
mittee, presided, and the traffic managers of fifteen of
from fans in every section of the country since the
The Grigsby-Grunow company, Chicago, has no the principal radio manufacturing companies, includ- reallocation plan went into effect. Mail clerks of the
ing
manufacturers
of
radio
and
talking
machine
com-
warehouse. Thirty carloads of raw materials come
commission are of the opinion that the incoming mali
into the plant every morning and thirty carloads of binations, agreed upon the freight rate reductions.
was more than double for a number of days after
completed radios go out every night. That means
thep Ian became effective. At any rate they are about
MAGNAVOX LICENSES SPARTON.
3,200 complete radio sets turned out at the plant every
swamped trying to handle them all.
The
Magnavox
company,
holder
of
the
patents
on
day. Five mills are devoted to providing lumber for
The communications are amusing, serious, for and
its needs. Approximately eighty-four tons of steel the electro- dynamic speakers, recently granted a
are used each day. The company uses enough wire license to the Sparks-Withington company, manufac- against thep Ian, but the consensus of opinion among
for its super dynamic speaker to circle the globe daily. turers of the Sparton receiver, to permit them to pro- the fans, taking the country as a whole, indicates up
Sixteen thousand pounds of tinfoil are used every day. duce speakers of the electro-dynamic type for installa- to this time that stations are coming in clearer and
Approximately 12,000 pounds of paper are used daily tion in their receivers. The Magnavox company will and with more volume than they did before. Many
fans tell the commission that they are pulling in sta-
for condensers. More than twenty tons of wax are deliver to the licensee 1,250 units a day until the Spar-
tions which they have never heard before.
used each day for the impregnating of condensers, ton factory can get into production.
chokes, etc. More than 5,000 pounds of aluminum FREED-EISEMANN ADVERTISING MANAGER
Officials of the commission point out that these
are used daily.
early communications have been received when the
Philip Van Doren Stern is the new advertising plan has not been fairly tried out. Where 600 sta-
manager for Freed-Eisemann Radio Corp. Mr. Stern
tions are trying to make changes, they say, it is
KOLSTER NEW LABORATORY.
was the company's first advertising manager back in
The Kolster Radio Corporation, which already has the days when broadcasting began. He built up the inevitable that some stations are not exactly on their
laboratories located in Mount Pleasant avenue, New- advertising department and supervised it until 1926 frequency, which means that other stations on the
ark, N. J., and at Palo Alto, Calif., has purchased when he left to go abroad. Returning home a year two sides of that band may have interference.
Radio Commissioner O. H. Caldwell, of the Eastern
the site for the erection of another research laboratory later, he became advertising manager of the Kolster
zone, said that reports regarding the new assign-
in the outskirts of Newark. The proposed laboratory Radio Corp. and has just given up that connection to
will double the space for such purposes at Newark. accept the invitation of the Freed-Eisemann organi- ments reaching the commission from all over the
In addition to the laboratory, the Kolster corpora- zation to return to them. In association with the country show "a gratifying improvement."
tion is completing plans for the construction of a company's advertising agency, he is planning an ex-
three-story factory adjoining their present factory in tensive advertising campaign.
Newark.
MOHAWK NAME CHANGED TO LYRIC.
ANNOUNCES TWO NEW MODELS.
Because the word "lyric" suggests musical enter-
RADIO FREIGHT RATES.
The Federal Radio Corporation of BufTalo is intro- tainment the All-American Mohawk Corporation an-
New demands and information upon which the ducing two new models of receivers known as the nounces that it will hereafter use the name "Lyric"
F-ll and the F-42. They are of the seven-tube type, as the trade name to apply to their receiving sets,
radio industry is urging reduced and equitable freight
rates have just been presented by the Radio Manu- using the orthosonic circuit. The F - l l is a table- which are among the most popular of all radio prod-
facturers' Association's Traffic Committee to the type receiver, while the F-42 is a console. The Fed- ucts. The "Lyric" line will comprise the dozen or
Joint Classification Committee of the principal rail- eral company previously produced a six-tube receiver more models of the six and eight tube sets that em-
roads. The detailed demands, upon which unanimous for general distribution and a more expensive model body the top features of sets produced by Mohawk
and All-American in the past.
agreement was reached, were prepared at a meeting that had a limited distribution.
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