Broadcasting in America

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 30, 8 February 1929, Unnumbered Page

Broadcasting in America

Effect of Re-allocation . ON November 11, the Federal Radio . Commission of the United States, in compliance with the 1928 Davis Amendment to the Radio Act, redistributed the nation’s broadcasting facilities equally among the five radio zones and proportionately among the’various States according. to population. ~This was done by re-allocating the warelengths, power and broadcasting time of the stations. _ , . "Radio Retailing" endeavoured to ascertain the effect of the re-allocations on the radio service to listeners. In order to do this, questionnaires were sent to radio dealers in every State. The answers to these questions, together with information received from other sources, indicate that, on the whole, the broadcasting situation has been much improved. There are local conditions in certain small areas which still have to be remedied, but it should be remembered that these are due, not to the re-allocations ordered by the commission, but to the. equalisation provision of the Davis Amendment. It is also generally admitted that sufficient time has not elapsed for perfect adjustment :-to the new requirements and that eventually the benefits of the re-alloca-tions will be more obvious.