Radio News

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 3

Radio News

Most of the artists of station KNX, Los Angeles, have developed the same system of "conversation" that boilermakers utilise. The latter, subjected to a constant terrific clamour while working inside boilers, usually — become partially deaf. Consequently they have devised a "lip language," and it is this method of communicatioén that the KNX artists have adopted. They have found this a necessity for, a precisely opposite reason to that advanced by the boilermakers, for they must keep absolutely silent in the sound-proof studios except when broadcasting, for even the slightest whisper percolates through the sensitive microphone. + * * HE modern American hotel is éver seeking to provide its guests with new conveniences, and consequently many have been equipped with radio in every room. One of Washington’s newest hotels, for example, is adapting its radio ‘equipment to new and novel uses. Special dinner-hour music is distributed from the hotel studio to diners and to the lobbies. Guests are paged, dinner announcements are male, ant even swimming instructions are given by radio to guests in the hotel gyme nasium. The radio installation in this hotel cost approximately £13,000, which in itself is a suggestion of the tremendous outlay for radio apparatus that will be spent in equipping thousands of hotels in the next few years.