Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-11-20 | Page 16 | Radio Channels Are Announced

RADIO CHANNELS ARE ANNOUNCED I Commission Seeks to Aid Long Distance Reception WASHINGTON Nov 19 Dy By The Thc Associated Press As As a IL result of Its most recent general order aimed at facilitating long Jong distance reception the federal radio commission was as enabled today to announce a a. list of oI 25 radio channels and the thc stations working thereon which will be cleared of o Interference by December 1 These 23 2 channels take In most of the space In the broadcasting band between and 1000 kilocycles In which area the commission has resolved to stop In Interference In- In Interference Interference from heterodyning and all aU other causes that can be reached A glance through the accompany accompany- accompanying ing list of channels shows hows that the designated band Includes Im Im- Important important stations scattered throughout the thc United Slates States the thc commissions commission's said COAST STATIONS Over these cleared channels it will m thus be possible for tor rural and remote listeners to pick up stations in all sections of the country Listeners with witha a particular taste for DX will also find the tracks cleared for them all the thc way across the continent In the case of several of the Pacific coast stations which ha e adequate power to deliver a signal In the thc east under good reception conditions San Francisco can be heard for tor three hoses hom after Newark shuts down on kilocycles And Portland will come In on wave va length after the big Long Island transmitter has closed for the night KOA Denver Den Colorado as a B. mile mile- milepost post for cross-continental cross radio tour tour- tourists tourists Isu will wW be heard when two watt SOO-watt stations in New York City are off And Porto Rico which shares Louis Louls- Louisville's ville's villes channel will prove a long distance dis dIs- distance tance southern test when the Ken Ken- Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky tucky broadcaster has closed down do Four cleared channels have been provided pro for four powered high-powered New NewYork NewYork NewYork York stations WJ WOR and the last named assignment be be- becoming becoming coming effective e with the December 1st changes In order to secure for tor this watt transmitter a cleared chan chan- channel chann channel nel n l across the continent CHICAGO GETS FIVE nn Chicago has been assigned some the fhe tl e cleared waves and while this Is Ls the largest number given to any single community ty it must be remembered that Chicago by its central location is in a position to furnish program for forthe forthe forthe the entire United States both east and west and for this reason reas n con con- considered considered considered from the standpoint of the tremendous audience of remote Its Its- lis listeners tenors surrounding Chicago it was deemed desirable that this number of cleared channels channels' be freed for tor the Chicago broadcasters With 25 channels cleared effective e December 1 I and with the remaining 11 channels In the 1000 band to tobe tobe tobe be cleared before licenses are renewed on those channels In January it Is the purpose of the thc radio commission to bring to the remote and rural lis listeners Its Its- leners during the present winter sea sea- season season season son as high a degree of ot reception as asIs asIs asIs Is possible an Improvement corre corre- corresponding corresponding corresponding to that accomplished for tor city and local listeners by the commissions commission's com com- commissions commission's missions mission's earlier actions