STATIONS LINKED

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 5

STATIONS LINKED

SIMULTANEOUS BROADCASTS

Tt is only a matter of time when the New Zealand broadcast statious will be linked together by land lines, so that a special programme or announecement from one of the stations will be simultaneously ‘broadcast from each of the other three. In the United States this system has been in vogue for some time, and now one big combination operates three huge chains of stations. HUGE AMERICAN CHAINS.

The National Broadcasting Compay, | with its three networks, covers the eutire United States. There are at present on the Red Network 22 cities, while cight are associated with the Blue. The Pacific coast network, which reaches from Los Angeles to Spokane, includes seven stations. It has been over these three comprehensive radio systems that the nation has heard President Coolidge and other speakers of national importance, as well as the Chicago Civic Opera radiocasts last January and other musical, political, and sports events of ont-, standing interest. AUDIENCE OF 20 MILLIONS Officials of the National Broadeasting Company have estimated that au audience of 20,000,000 persons listen when the three networks are transmitting, which is indicative of the tremendous number of radio enthusiasts to whose enlightenment and entertainment Chicago will contribute. RED AND BLUE NETWORKS Stations of the Red and Blue Networks are located in the following cities: WEA and WJZ, New York; WEEI and WBZA, Boston; WJAR, Providence; WTAG, Worcester; W'TIC, Hartford ; WBZ, Springfield; WGR, Buffalo; WLIT, Philadelphia; WRC, Washington; WCSH, Portland, Me.: WCAI aud KDKA, Pittsburg; WIAM, Cleveland; WWJ and WJR, Detroit; WSAI, Cincinnati; KSD, St. Louis; WOC, Davenport; WSM, Nashville; WMC, Memphis; WMAQ, KYW, and WLBH, Chicago. ADVANTAGES IN THE DOMINION, The chaining together of the New Zealand stations by laud lines would prove of particular advantage in the event of a national crisis. Announcements brodcast, for example, from 2YA, Wellington, could be simultancously broadcast by the other three stations so that even the crystal set ewners in each city could hear them. AUSTRALIAN SUCCESS. During the opening ceremony of the Vederal Australian capital, Canberra, several Australian stations, including 6LO, Melbourne, were linked by land lines to Canberra, aud listeners operating crystal sets in Melbourne heard every word uttered at the ceremony. On previous occasions Australian stations have been connected by land lines with successful results,