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ft*PAGE TWO—RADIO SECTIONTHE DAILY ARDMOREITE, ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA'SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 19Southern Oklahoma Towns to JoinNINE TOWNS TOlt;$BE REPRESENTEDON OPENING DAYKADA, Ada, KGFF, Shawnee and WKY Oklahoma City, to Send Talent.(Continued From Page 1, Section 1)which will be followed by a program given by County Line folk. At 7 o’clock, Jane Royer, mezzo soprano, will be presented, and the first day’s broadcast will end at 7:30 with a 15-minute presentation by the “Nosey Reporter.’’“Modern in Every Way”KVSO has been termed by experts who have visited the plant prior to its opening as one of the “most modem and up-to-date broadcasting stations for its size in the United States.” In quality of equipment, it is excelled by no station, and is one of the few stations in the southwest to employ true “high fidelity.The transmitter itself is of the very latest type, manufactured by the Radio Corporation of America. It is a 100-250 watt “high fidelity” transmitter and is a component part of any broadcasting station up to one kilowatt.Many of the smaller stations now on the air use transmitters of inferior design and when more power is gained the transmitter must be junked. Demands of modem high-quality broadcasting are becoming more exacting every day. KVSO’s trarunitter, however, exceeds the accepted standards in every respect, and the overall performance as a' result is markedly superior to that of any other standard low-power transmitter. Other equipment is of equally high and modem design. Microphones are of the same design as those used in Radio City.The station is located at the north edge of town in what was once known as the “model home.” It is a two-story white stucco building of modernistic Spanish design, and is employed ideally as a broadcast plant. The entire broadcasting station, includingpower plant, antenna system, studios and reception room, is housed in this modem building. Experts say the building is one of the finest for radio plants of KVSO’s size in the United States.Studios ModernisticStudios are of the latest modem design. Accepted standards have been followed in every respect. Two studios will be maintained at the plant. Each has been designed by experts and each is acoustically correct in every respect, extensive tests, conducted over a period of several weeks, have proven. No pains nor expense was spared to make the studios ideal in everj7 respect.Both studios will be In constant use, the facilities being such that immediately after a program is completed in one studio, the other studio can be brought into use immediately by the smiple flip of a switch.Monitor speakers will be maintained in each studio, and signal lights will warn the performers when the studio is on or off the air, it was explained.Entrance to the two studios is gained by plate-glass paneled doors through which the audience in the reception room may watch various broadcasts.The programs will be brought to the listeners in the reception room by way of a large high-fidelity radio,located between the doors to the twostudios. The reception room will accommodate a score or more of visitors at one time, and easy visibility of the studios will give the guests a first-hand view of the broadcasts as they are in progress. ,Glass Panels Between StudiosBetween the two studios and between the studios and the control room are large double-paneled glasses, permitting the operators to watch at all times the broadcasts.KVSO will have access to the fa-cilites of the World Broadcasting system, which offers a wide range of programs for use during any part of the broadcast day. The World system,employed by scores of stations throughout the United States, provides a wide variety of program material, instantly available, to provide an allround entertainment feature.The antenna system is of the very latest type, and was designed especially for this station.. The system consists of a single steel tower, 180 feet tall, braced in such a manner as not to require guy wires to maintain its stability. This antenna is now accepted by engineers to be most efficient in use.The old style antenna consisted of two towers 80 or 100 feet tall, which supported a wire antenna', is now fast becoming obsolete, and the newer, more modem radio stations are using the single tower exclusively.The tower is the antenna. It is insulated from the ground with porce-lean strips which entirely support tw.e tower.Efficient PersonnelThe station will be manned by anefficient corps of experienced men,it was pointed out.The control room and the operating of the transmitting equipment will be in the hands of two government engineers— H. Franklin Burnett, and Charles M. Dibrell.Dibrell is an Ardmore man who has had several years’ experience. Hepassed strict government examinationsand received his license about a'yearago.Bumett comes to Ardmore with several years’ practical experience with radio stations in Kansas City. The two have been busily engaged at the station for more than a month, setting up and connecting the complicated broadcast outfit.On the shoulders of these two young men rests the responsibility of putting the station on the air and of keeping it there throughout the broadcasts.Ted Smith Director Ted Smith, w7ho has had many years of experience in the radio field, comes to Ardmore to become station director and commercial man. He will also act In the capacity of chief announcer, and his pleasing voice will be heard frequently over KVSO. .Program direction will be in the hands of Weldon Wallace, another Ardmore product, who will find his hands well filled in meeting the demands of the station programs everyday. His voice, too, will be heard overthe station regularly.Other announcers, such as news commentators, sports announcers and special announcers will have a place in the regular routine of the station,THE VOICE OFSOUTHERN OKLAHOMAIs Nowon the AirWe Extend Congratulations toKVSOArdmore's New and Up-to-Date RadioBroadcasting Station.ARDMOREIs Now theRADIO CITYof Southern Oklahomathanks to the forward-looking spirit ofthe management andstaff ofKVSOThe Voice of Southern OklahomaCHICKASAW LUMBER COAnything YouWant Any TimePHONE 20Precision TuningEnds Interference“Will KVSO interfere with local reception of other radio stations?” This Is a question which has been asked of the owners of the Ardmore broadcasting plant scores of times since permit to erect a station here was oranted the Dally Ardmoreite by the federal communications commission.The answer Is—NO I Precision broad cast equipment has eliminated the old-style all-band tuning such as marked early-day broadcast reception In towns In which transmitters were located, It was explained. KVSO is tuned to the fraction of a degree tc 1210 kilocycles, and on a modern radio, It can be received on that frequency only. Even within a few hundred feet of the broadcast plant, radio listeners will be able to tune out the Ardmore station and bring in other stations, even though they may be broadcasting on a frequency near the Ardmore band, it was said.President WorldBroadcasting toGreet ListenersP. L. Deutsch, New York, Head of Broadcast System, to Be Heard Over KVSO.it was announced. Names of these will be announced as programs get under way.Remote Control Available In addition to the studios maintained at the broadcast plant, facilities for remote control are available, and, after broadcasting has progressed for a short time, likely several remote control programs will be brought the listeners of KVSO.The slogan, “The Voice of Southern Oklahoma” was made possible through the combination of the code letters KVSO. This combination was asked for by the station owners In order that the slogan might be used, and the request was readily granted by the federal communications commission in Washington.The slogan Is one of the most unique in the United States, it was pointedout.The station will broadcast on a wavelength of 1210 kilocycles, and strict adherence to that band will be had afc all times. No interference with other stations, even on nearby wavelengths, will be noted with modern receiving sets.More Time Sought For the present KVSO has daytime permit only. Plans are now under way, however, for unlimited time and higher power which it is hoped will be granted early in the fall.*Time of closing the program for the day, under the present permit, varies according to the length of the day. The schedule for closing, by months, is as follows:August, 7:15 p. m.; September, 8:80 p. m.; October, 6 p. m.: November, 5:30 p. m.; December, 5:15 p. m.; January, 5:45 p. m.; February, 0:15 p. m.; March, 0:30 p. m.; April, 7 p. m.; May, 7:30 p. m.; June, 7:45 p. m.; July, 7:45 p. m.Interesting and entertaining programs have been booked, many of them for several weeks ahead, it was pointed out by the management.Suggestions for programs and for improvements are sought by the station.Scotch Scoutsto Wear BonnetGLASGOW.—UP)—A serious split in the Boy Scout movement in Scotland has been averted by a decision permitting Scottish Rover Scouts to wear the traditional Balmoral bonnet instead of the regulation service hat.The controversy, which caused large numbers to desert the scout ranks, arose in 1930, when Lord Baden-Powell, as chief scout, sought to establish world-wide uniformity Inheadgear.Similar difficulties arose in other countries. The fez and turban, scout authorities found, were no more likely to be forsaken than the Scottish favorite. On his present world tour the chief scout is reported to have decided that the difficulties of achieving uniformity outweighed the advantages.Although the earth receives more solar heat In January than in July, the northern hemisphere Is a much colder place in the former month. At that time, each heat ray strikes the earth at a low angle, distributnig the heat over a greater area.Rabbits provide the fur for 80 different kinds of fur coats, including French sable.One of the features of the prografa which station KVSO will offer today to inaugurate the station’s affiliation with World Broadcasting system, will be a specially recorded message of greetings to the listeners of this area from P. L. Deutsch, president of World.This message will be an example of the recent development of sound recording by the vertical wide range method which has been devoloped by Bell Telephone laboratories. Mr. Deutsch’s message will be heard exactly the same as if he were present at the local studios. The program has been arranged under the personal direction of Ted Smith, station director, assisted by Weldon Wallace, program director.“More than 100 musicians and artists are employed to present the World programs,” said Smith. * “The recordings are perfection themselves. Wide range vertical transcriptions, distributed by World, are recorded in a frequency range of 30 to 10,000 cycles, the range essential to hear the most intricate of orchestral nuances without distortion. No other form of recording invented up to now guarantees this hearing reception to the listener. Simply stated, this means that when you hear a World musical program It is being broadcast at the frequencies that suit the average ear.Best to Be Offered“Listeners to KVSO during the next year will hear the very best standard musical entertainment. I believe that these programs are contributing a valuable service in those homes where children are being taught to appreciate music.4“The lighter entertainment has not been neglected. There are hundreds of dance numbers, hill billy songs, the latest hits in Broadway piuslcal shows, the newest songs that are to be found in Tin Pan Alley. The modern composers and lyric writers are all represented in the wide variety of programs by this new service.”Officials selected musical numbers for the special program which will show the wide variety of the music, vocal and instrumental, which are heard in the World programs. The musical numbers on the program include:The Program“Mardi Gras,” “Mississippi Suite,” part IV, a selection which illustrates the remarkable tonal quality attained by the new method of wide range vertical recording distributed by the World Broadcasting system.“Faust” remains the most popular standard and best known of operas and selections from this noted score, and the “Dance of the Hours,” from “La Gioconda” will supply representative classical numbers.Broadway is represented by “Blue Moon” and children — particularly those studying the piano—will be stirred to greater practice by hearing the piano team in “A Shine On Your Shoes” from “Flying Colors.” A male chorus will render “Brown October Ale,” and two splendid modem dance numbers, “Sophisticated Lady,” and “Who,” will follow.Wide Range ProgramA hotcha number “Christmas Night in Harlem,”, a hill billy favorite, “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane,” and a Negro spiritual, “Deep River, will demonstrate the wide variety of musical entertainment. This variety is not confined to this country. Beautiful “Drifting and Dreaming” from “Sweet Paradise” will bring Hawaii near to the listener, and a visit to old Spain and the Orient will follow with “Adioe” and “Orlentale.”“Two Guitars” has been dedicated to the chamber of commerce for this occasion, and for the American Legion, there is the ever popular “Roses of Picardy.” Reserved for Mayor Taliaferro is that stirring march from “Alda,” a most fitting finale to the elaborate program arranged to celebrate the affiliation with World Broadcasting system.• •\They're All Talking AboutKVSOArdmore's Modern Radio BroadcastingStationThe citizens of Southern Oklahomamay well be proud of this fineinstitution.707 SINCEton707HARDY STATIONRADIO PIONEERBenjamin Franklin’s name must be rationed in any complete 'history ’ American literature, politics, ec-imics, journalism education, dlplom-sy, philanthropy or philosophy.When the camivorlous sum plant snaps shut on an Insect, it t not open its diaspora until the in is digested; but if it closes on a i ble, it quickly opens again.WO A A, Dr. Hardy’s Sta tion, Was First to Go on Air in This Section.With the advent of KVSO, representing the latest developments in radio broadcasting, old-time radio fans were recalling early-day radio in this section when WOAA, Dr. and Mrs. Walter Hardy’s own station, wasamong the pioneers. The station long went off the air, but in the early days it afforded listeners in the Ardmore region a program source in the days before the , dial was bristling with programs.Many, Indeed, are the improvements in bolh transmitters and receivers which have been made since the WOAA (which had for ifa slogan, “Watch Our Airplane Ambulance”) made its debut.Made “Radio Voice”One of the most colorful stories ever written about WOAA appeared in the Radio Voice in June, 1923, when a two-page “spread” was given the sanitarium’s radio station in a story written by J. A. fieekay. In his summary, Seekay pointed out that the station was located on the first floor of the Hardy sanitarium, that its transmitter was a. 100-watt affair with six-wire inverted “1” cage aerial with 11-wire counterpoise, and that it had been erected by Dudley Shaw, electrical engineer, and George Gabus, licensed radio operator, Oklahoma City. The operator was “Prof” G. H. Reitz, with Milton Hardy, Dr. Hardy's son, as understudy. It made its first try-out on Dec. 12, 1922, and was reported received to as far away as Dayton, Ohio. Seekay summed his story by saying that the ambition of WOAA was to “tell the world of the wonders of Ardmore; to impress every citizen of Ardmore and vicinity with the fact that WOAA is maintained for the pleasure and profit of the public at the expense and with the compliments of its owner.”The station did not have an assigned frequency, and was permitted to broadcast practically on all waves. The federal radio commission had not been heard of in those days, and strict adherence to a narrow broadcast band was not required. KVSO, on the other hand, must be tuned to a fraction of a degree to its assignedband of 1210 kilocycles, and no interference will be noted with other stations broadcasting on other bands.Of the station, Seekay said: “It was back in June, 1922, that the roof of the sanitarium acquired its first antenna. A Westinghouse receiving set was installed and, despite the trials and tribulations with static during the extremely wand summer, good programs were received from near and far.- was during the past summer when the receiving fever was at its height that the broadcasting bug first got Ardmore. Dr. and Mrs. Hardy give E. F. Holmes, pioneer radio dealer of Ardmore, full credit for aiding and abetting the bite of the bug to the extent of convincing them that Ardmore needed a broadcasting station.cVE UP To\s20oo%riRESEARCH and development engineers firoj Firestone and Stewart;-Warner have collaborated to gh yon a radio for your car that embodies the features an quality of your home set-—clear totae, powerful receptfo and delicate selectivity.This, and Firestone’s enormous buying powc enable us to offer you this superb radio at prices up t $20.00 less than you would pay anywhere else.Come in today and hear these sets•aISTEWART-WARNER5 TUBE SE. . * ■ —Cosh Price*2991Price Per Wee456 TUBE SETCash Price*39.95Price Per Week•i»*7 TUBE SETCash PricePrice Per WeekSEPARATE LOUD SPEAKERa'We handle a complete line of dash mounting for B and 7 tube radios for 1035 model earMore than 5,000,000 copies of Ethelbert Nevin’s “The Rosary” have been sold.AUTO SUPPLY SERVICE STOREMore cheese is produced by Wisconsin than by any other state In the union.E. B. PHILLIPS, Manager15-17 West Broadway Phone 1921*Voice of Southern Oklahoma- ®We think KVSO is entitled to much credit for giving Ardmore its first broadcasting station. 11 means a largeinvestment in money and effort to put our town in the same class with others enjoying the distinction of having broadcasting facilities.Electric wiring and electrical installations In Station KVSO were made by us. Let us figurewith you on your electrical work. We guarantee satisfaction.CECIL BABERELECTRICAL CONTRACTORI€214 West MainPhone 1250I *kVa* I a]cssitV:mm(Tx.frr rv*--1 ’* -• » -VS 7; ■ - *Vr/*. V ■-%
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Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite
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Sun, Aug 04, 1935
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