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184 Radio BroadcastOWEN D.YOUNGChairman of the Boards of Directors of the GeneralElectric Company and the Radio Corporation of America.Mr. Young opened the transatlantic broadcastingfrom this sideBritish Broadcasting Company and of our NationalAssociation of Broadcasters, besides themany American stations which signified by telegramto RADIO BROADCAST their eagerness tocooperate in these great scientific tests. Internationalbroadcasting on a large scale had neverbefore been tried, and broadcast listenersthroughout America were at the highest pitchof excitement to know whether or not their setscould pick up the faint signals from abroad.The English listeners were no less enthusiastic,although the difference in time brought thebeginning of their tests literally to "ThreeO'Clock in the Morning." Small wonder then,that this familiar music-hall piece found a significantplace on many of the British programs.HOW THE TESTS ORIGINATEDUPON his return from a trip to Englanda few months ago, during which he made adetailed study of radio broadcasting there,Mr. F. N. Doubleday, President of Doubleday,Page & Company, made the suggestion at oneof the weekly meetings of the editors of hismagazines that it would be extremely interesting,and stimulating both to the progress ofradio and to international friendship, were itpossible for RADIO BROADCAST to arrange aprogram of broadcasting from this country toEngland.After a rather extended discussion, thesuggestion was made that two-way broadcasting,instead of one-way tests, be attempted.A working plan was outlined by this magazineand submitted to Hugh S. Pocock, Editor ofthe Wireless World and Radio Review of London.Mr. Pocock brought the proposal to theattention of the British Broadcasting Companyand an agreement was made between thatcompany's chief engineer, Captain E. P.Eckersley, and the two radio magazines, tocarry out the plan.Mr. Pocock and Captain Eckersley arrangedall the details in England and immediate stepswere taken to secure the cooperation of thoseinterested in radio in this country. Inasmuchas National Radio Week would come at a timewhen atmospheric conditions would be favorable,it was decided to hold the tests as a featureof the National Radio Week program.Newspapers all over the country were quickto appreciate the importance of this internationalprogram and were most generouswith their space. In New York, for instance,the Associated Press, the United Press, andthe International News Service spread abroadover their wire lines daily stories relating thedetails as they developed.WHO WAS TO SPEAK FOR AMERICA?NATURALLY, when it came to invitingspeakers to broadcast messages to Englandfrom this country, our first thought was of thePresident. And we visited the White Housein an effort to have Mr. Coolidge address thepeople of America and England simultaneously.Mark Sullivan, of Washington, the internationallyknown writer on politics, acted as RADIOBROADCAST'S representative at the Capitol.Unfortunately, there was not time enough toarrange the diplomatic details necessary for anarrangement, entirely unprecedented, of thiskind.Similar diplomatic obstacles prevented thePrince of Wales and Prime Minister Baldwin ofGreat Britain from speaking. As the mostinfluential single man in the radio field in theUnited States, we looked to Owen D. Young,
The Transatlantic Broadcasting Tests and What They Prove 185Chairman of the Boards of Directors of theGeneral Electric Company and the Radio Corporationof America, to open the internationalprogram for America. Through Mr. StuartCrocker, assistant to Mr. Young, we learnedthat Mr. Young would be glad to aid our programin any way he could.When we brought our plans to Major-General James G. Harbord, President of theRadio Corporation, he, too, was quick to lendhis generous aid.The romance of this attempt at internationalcommunication appealed very strongly to Mr.Henry Ford.EveryAmerican knows that Mr.Ford is credited with making the impossiblepossible in the automobile industry, and he wasso much in sympathy with this firstattempt atlinking nations by voice that he agreed toaddress the people of England and Americathrough his own station at Dearborn, MichiganWW1. In securing Mr. Henry Ford'scooperation, we were greatly aided by Mr.Samuel Crowther, Mr. Ford's biographer.One of the most important addresses madeduring these tests was that of Charles EvansHughes, Secretary of State, on Friday night,November 3oth, inAmerican Philadelphia, before theAcademy of Political and SocialScience, and broadcasted by WDAR in thatcity.Although we have held our presses until thelast minute in order to give our readers asdetailed a report as possible, the programsfrom the English broadcasters have not comethrough in full. Each American broadcasterhad full charge of arranging his own transatlanticprogram.However, Governor Hyde of Missouri spokefor fifteen minutes from KSD in St. Louis,and British Vice-Consul Hyde and Mr. FrankConrad, Chief Engineer of the WestinghouseElectric and Manufacturing Company, madeaddresses from the Pittsburgh Post studiowhich were put on the air by KDKA.On the nights of the American transmission,the most powerful broadcasting stations on thisTHE FIRST NIGHTScene: RADIO BROADCAST laboratory, Garden City, L. I., where two super-heterodynes and a six-stage tuned radiofrequencyreceiver occupied the attention of (left to right): George J. Eltz, Jr., George Toohill, A. J. Haynes,faul h .Uodley, C. L. Farrand, and the editor of this magazine
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