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...formal drawing-room, softly rugged-the studio of Station WEAF, Manhattan-sat a score of notables in evening garb. In the broadcasting room stood John McCormack. In front of him was a microphone. He sang Adeste Fideles with quartet and orchestra, the Berceuse from Jocelyn. Then Miss Lucrezia Bori rendered LaPaloma, airs from La Traviata; then the two sang a duet from the same opera. Both were nervous at first, lacking the stimulant of a physical audience ; they warmed to their work, their voices were perfectly reproduced, even to the finest nuances of shading. Between numbers, the announcer...
Last week the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. declared its intention to bring suit to protect its patents ; the A. T. & T. operates the station WEAF, in Manhattan, and brought suit against station WHN, operated by Loew's State Theatre...
Sponsors for a Radio Music Fund include Clarence H. Mackay, Felix M. Warburg, Frederic Juilliard, A. D. Wilt, Jr. The Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan, has been appointed to take care of the money. WEAF (American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Manhattan) is the chosen station...
...That set of Corean automobile rules read off to us from WEAF was interesting. For those who detuned: 'Ring your horn,' 'speed slowly...
...assigned to the high-power long-distance transmitting stations (Class B) in each zone. Broadcasters will have to adhere to these under penalty. Arlington, the Government station, will probably be allowed a special wave length of its own. New York and Newark, with their big entertaining stations, WJZ, WOR, WEAF, etc., will get three lengths, 405, 455, and 492 meters, between them, and must arrange their own division of time. The assignments are for cities and not for specific stations...