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before) and relocated it in Manhattan. It was soon joined in the market by WEAF,
owned and operated by the dominant telephone company, AT&T. The attention
two such giant stations attracted did much to stimulate the building of other
stations by these and many other companies.
Unfortunately, the Department of Commerce, in creating the new class of
broadcasting stations in 1921, allocated only one place on the spectrum for such
operations: 360 meters (833 kilohertz). Thus, every newly authorized station was
given the same place on the dial! The escape from the mounting congestion was
just as bizarre. Because 485 meters (6] 9 kHz) had been specified for weather,
crop, and similar governmental reports, stations frequently moved to that fiequency
to broadcast that type of content and then moved back to 833 to transmit all other
programming. Listeners were expected to follow along and somehow continue to
locate their favorite station despite the increasing interference of other outlets now
working those same frequencies. In the true hands-off spirit of the Republican
administrations of the 1920s, the Department of Commerce simply told stations to
work out sharing arrangements among themselves. As a partial solution, a new
class of operation, the B stations, was created and allowed to transmit at 400
meters (750 kHz). Occupants of this channel had to operate at significantly less
power, however, and were not allowed to broadcast any phonograph records.
Finally, as we see in Chapter 6, the airwaves became such a tangle of interference
that responsible broadcasters had to convince the government to take corrective
action.
By the midtwenties, radio equipment had vastly improved and the number
of home receiving sets mushroomed. Everyone was talking about radio, and the
much less glamorous
before) and relocated it in Manhattan. It was soon joined in the market by WEAF,
owned and operated by the dominant telephone company, AT&T. The attention
two such giant stations attracted did much to stimulate the building of other
stations by these and many other companies.
Unfortunately, the Department of Commerce, in creating the new class of
broadcasting stations in 1921, allocated only one place on the spectrum for such
operations: 360 meters (833 kilohertz). Thus, every newly authorized station was
given the same place on the dial! The escape from the mounting congestion was
just as bizarre. Because 485 meters (6] 9 kHz) had been specified for weather,
crop, and similar governmental reports, stations frequently moved to that fiequency
to broadcast that type of content and then moved back to 833 to transmit all other
programming. Listeners were expected to follow along and somehow continue to
locate their favorite station despite the increasing interference of other outlets now
working those same frequencies. In the true hands-off spirit of the Republican
administrations of the 1920s, the Department of Commerce simply told stations to
work out sharing arrangements among themselves. As a partial solution, a new
class of operation, the B stations, was created and allowed to transmit at 400
meters (750 kHz). Occupants of this channel had to operate at significantly less
power, however, and were not allowed to broadcast any phonograph records.
Finally, as we see in Chapter 6, the airwaves became such a tangle of interference
that responsible broadcasters had to convince the government to take corrective
action.
By the midtwenties, radio equipment had vastly improved and the number
of home receiving sets mushroomed. Everyone was talking about radio, and the
much less glamorous
