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Tannhauser will be broadcast in full from the Metropolitan Opera House at 1.35 P.M. over WEAF and WJZ on Saturday afternoon with Lotte Lehmann, Melchior, and Schorr; Artur Bodansky conducting. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by the St. Cecilia Society and David McCloskey, will play the fol- lowing programme, to be broadcast Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF; Introduction to Solomon, by Handel; Evocation, by Loeffier; Prometheus, baritone solo, by Hugo Wolf; and Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic will play Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, all three of the Leonora overtures, and Brahms' First Symphony...
Advertisers seeking time on the air over N. B. C.'s WEAF and WJZ were told last week they would have to pay more than holders of old contracts. The new hourly rate (for 6 to .12 p. m.) is $900 against $730, half-hourly $562.50 against $468.75. N. B. C. explained that radio listeners have increased 120% in the metropolitan area since Feb. 1, 1929 without a corresponding change in rates. The means by which the rate of increase was ascertained were not divulged, nor was any statement made on whether there has been a similar increase throughout...
...Sweethearts of the Air," the radio team of Breen & De Rose broadcasts from station WEAF Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday mornings at 10:15, Monday & Friday mornings at 10:30 (Eastern Standard Time...
Before the Commission appeared President Merlin Hall Aylesworth to plead for the life of his National Broadcasting Co.'s seven stations (WRC, Washington; WEAF and WJZ, New York; KGO, San Francisco; KOA, Denver; WTAM, Cleveland; WENR, Chicago). His company had, he said, $17,000,000 in unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case...
...second course, on Tuesday afternoons over WEAF, will be taught by Osbourne McConathy, onetime music professor at Northwestern Universitv...