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Show BROADCASTING ACROSS THE CONTINENT Radio KHJ today stands as a monument to the growth of this new means of communication in the West Its brief existence as a class "B" station has proven its range to be in excess of 3000 miles. Astounding has been the response of the listening family to the excellence of this new radio giant of the Pacific Coast. During Dur-ing the first thirty days that KHJ operated on 400 meters, more than 1 0,000 letters and over 1000 telegrams tele-grams came, all giving unqualified approval of the clarity, modulation " and quality of programs. Today the voice of The Times radio rad-io station is as common to Nova Scotia, Sco-tia, New England, Cuba, Mexico City, Atlanta, Honolulu and countless other places lying in between as it is in the States bordering on its home State California. The Times went into the broadcast broad-cast field April 13, 1922, it being the first newspaper in the Southland to go into the broadcast field,. From the outset the policy was to give the listening lis-tening public the finest singers, the best instruments, speakers of national nation-al distinction, educational matter ot broad general interest, news from the world centers in other words, furnish the radio family with entertainment enter-tainment and diversion that would be uplifting and stimulating. For six months KHJ represented i fifty-watt, limited-range station. Then came the installation of a West orn Electric 55-watt transmitting tation; calling for an initial outlay ; of some $3.0,000. With an elaborate broadcast stu-Cio, stu-Cio, reception rooms and transmitter quarters, KHJ now ranks with the best in the country, and in keeping with its initial move of being the 1st Southern California newspaper to enter en-ter the radio-broadcast field, it took precedence over all other sections, not only in Southern California, but !a the whole western half of the U. S., in its installation of equipment that entitled it to a class "B" rating under the XT. S. Department of Commerce, Com-merce, which lays down hard and fast rules governing the quality of programs, the type of equipment, the v.-ave length and other requisites of : tatlons gaining this classification. As a class "B" 400-meter station. KHJ has bridged the continent, yes. i ven more than that, Reports have i ome from Hawaii, from ships off I 'ie Atlantic Coast, from faraway Al- . .... r.-'ka from ships off Panama. XTpward of 1500 persons have ap-rearedi ap-rearedi on KHJ programs, among t'lem artists of both national and In-i In-i rnational repute, speakers of world 'vide fame, instrumentalists whose r imes are known throughout the vorld. The Times' radiophone maintains Tiree broadcast periods daily and -. me on Sunday. Its 12:30 to 1:15 i rogram is promarily for the benefit ( f the radio dealer who wants real entertainment for demonstration to roontide throngs who have opportunity oppor-tunity at this time to listen in and 1 am what radio means. A children's ' alf-hour period, 7 to 7:30 is given i i the evening, consisting of enter- " ' linment for kiddies vocal or in- -'nimental and a bedtime story by "Uncle John," The final period each (';iy is a deluxe concert. 9 to 9:30, of vocal and Instrumental music, pub-)'; pub-)'; speaking, educational matter and And lastly .but by no means of ; nail importance, it should be under 'ood that every bit of KHJ's broad- st is done by real 'flesh and blood' lists. The regulations governing a 'Mss "B" station do not permit of : y mechanical music. |