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ew Era in Canadian Broadcasting Giant Hornby Transmitter Last Word In Modernity Tower 647 Feet High Is Hub of Station CBL's Broadcasting Elqulp- ^ ment â€" Another Link In Magic Chain of "Canada Celling". r H. - Thirty-five miles from Toronto, in the midst of a typical rural Ontario ^cene of pastoral beauty stands a ^ant Instrument of modern service. Six hundred and forty-seven feet of •tructural steel pierce the clouils like if rlender load pencil, painted white %7>i orange. This Is the new Canad- ian Broadcasting Corporal ion trans- ffiltter known as CBL wOich began operation Christmas Day. By day, tile tower looms in skeleton form â- triking at the clouds, by night Its ablation beacon cuts through the at- nJbsphere to warn nocturnal birdmen. All around lie fields, red barns and hi^stacks and beyond, the million ra- dio listeners whoso sets will be tuned to* this wonder instrument of the T.yent'efh Century. Lines of Transmission A small, compact building of mod- ern constrnction in white concrete and glass brick, houses the actual tifnsmitting OQuipment. The tower Is BOO feet away. Be'.ween the two, runs toe tran.Tmission line, carrjing the power gonprated in the transmitter bonding to the tower, or radiator. The tifensmission linos are mounted three feet above the ground. They are en- cased in copper tubing, wrapped In a.'jbestos and supported at intervals of a few foet in such a way that It may «Llpand or contract under the chang- i\g weather conditions. Beneath the jTOUud. radiating from the tower are utnetoen miles of wire which can be dsscribed a.s the spoke.s of a wheel with the tower as its hub. Will Stand 120-Mile Gale The tower stands upon a ten toot square concrete ba.se but the con- i^iiwtlon is not as simple as It ap- ;ears. At the base of the steel tower i| a steel plate, below this a porcelain cup superimposed on a steel ball all esting on the saucer shaped top of ftoe concrete base. This resembles a ball and socket design. Running at right angles from the four corners of the ten foot square shaft, about three liundred feet from the ground are the lohr guys, one and three-eighth inch wire rope, specially designed and tested to hold the tower against a 120 ipjle gale. These guys arc anchored in the ground G50 feet from their point oi^ contact with the tower and they bear the extra weight of four insula- KVTB. each weighing 200 pounds. •At historic Vercheres. in Quebec, an ."Jenticnl- construction is under way. These are the most powerful trans- '«!ltters in Canada, and each will also serve not only the province in which it is located but neighboring provinc- is and states as well. , An Intricate Network But how does a program, oiigiuating •♦n the CBC studios at Toronto, get to ihe lk)ruby transmitter and Into the homej of the listeners? "Music, drama •r comedy, lectures, news and songs. Soars Upwards 647 Feet Ileic's How CBL's Xew Transmitter Tower Looks From the Ground all travel the same way over special- ly designed telephone wires to the transmitter building where they are electrically amplified and broadcast from the tower or antenna in the form of radio frequency energy. The transmitter is an Intricate net- work of electric circuits with many miles of wire connecting Its various units, but It Is so compact that o^e t'^chnician can sit at a control con- sole in th â-  centre of the transmitter room, with an audience st.anding in the visitors' gallery, and control all operations by just pressing buttons with his fingertips. Last Word in Modernity Radio equipment i.s oue of the mar- vels of ti;e age. Canadians are soon to have an opportunity of seeing the last word in thii form of modern com- munication. And before many more harvests are reaped from the pleasant farmlands surrounding Hornby, the Dominion will have added still other links to this magic chain. "Canada Calling." which has its imposing be- ginning in the two 50.000 watt sta- tion.s. CBL and CBF, in Ontario and Quebec. Now that tlie transmitter has made its formal bow on the airwaves, vis- itors are welcome to the new head- quarters of CBL. The Tubes Cost Nearly $1,000 Apiece '.ep Naini, ^* sluicej .â- %^ rymg est on. founds ks ati, t Col- « nt to-' \ was a* J tiring. , walk V '% >f th« ., three ^f ^7 time ' 10 girl iroken T 5 ro kc ii n dua I this lor oi sumI ed in liJdl* actin liTcn. rliTtf lahhy. fhlw, â- ceM Thm- Tlhb WER Engineer Nichols Shows a Visitor Around the New Transmitter Station at ilornby, pointing out the extra-special rectifier tubes. 7 f Trans-Canada Nearly Ready Johnson Sees Star; on Air Service In West EarJy I:i 1938 Philip G. Johnson, vice-president In chuige of operations for Trans- Canada Airline.'*, last week said the western circuit of the Trans-Canada route might be started earlier than originally evpected. He refused, however, to name any starting date. (Hon. C. D. Howe, minister of transport recently stated the western •ir route of Trans-Canada Airlines would start operations by February 1.) Sooner TKan Expected "We planned our progiam to start the western service sometime in 1938," Mr. Johnson said. "The starting date depends on too many factors â€" how soon pilots complete their training period and how soon our equipment is ready â€" to make predictions yet. But there is a good possibility that we will be able to start sooner than we expected." In commenting on personnel Mr. Johnson said the airlines' policy "has been to hire Canadian-born pilots in preference to British-born f.iers. He also said only si.x United States ex- perts were employed, none having permanent contracts. "Old Faithful" geyser broke away from its G5-minute schedule on June 19. 1936, and spouted twice within 30 nunutes. It then waited 9t minutes before erupting • Blind WHness "Saw" Murder Is the Only Man Who Provided Clue to Slaying A slaying ''witnessed" only by a blind man gave Philadelphia police last week a new angle on crime. Detective John McEnroe said Frank Reynolds, 69, sightless former circus perfonner, related a tale of two men rushing silently into the Reynolds rooming house and shooting a man identified through fingerprints as Samuel Goldstein, 41. Reynolds, who became blind 10 jears ago. said he knew Goldstein as "Samuel Fuhrman" and that he "sometimes would drop in for a talk." Reynolds s.iid he and Goldstein were sitting in the kitchen last night -vhen the doorbell rang. "He was going to answer for me, but I told him I would go," the blind man said. "I turned the latch of the door and whoever was on the steps pushed right in and another man followed him." RejTiolJs said he closed the door and was returning to the kitchen when ho heard a shot. Then, he said, the pair jelbowed hirn aside and fled from the house without saying a word. Detective McEnroe said the finger- prints of Goldstein identified him as a man with a record of arrests dat- ing back to 1910. T'lo dock at Southampton, England is tiie largest in the world and is cap- able of berthing eight of the world's laiiiest vessels at the same time Six months :i.= master of ceremonies of the Chase and Sanborn Hour has revealed Don Ameche as the "man of a thousand voices." He has the light touch necessary to an JI.C. and he runs through the gallery of charac- ters in almost any dramatic library without difficulty. One Sunday, in the broadca.n over the XBC-Red Net- v o:k at 8 p.m. E.S.T., he is a growl- ing racketeer, the next he is Henry VllT, or an Italian peanut vendo'-, or a French painter, or a fisherman, or a doctor. Yet tiiey all sound differ- ent, none of them is Ameche him- self. He can project himself into an almost infinite number of personal- ities, but his own is probably best re- vealed in the competen'' manner in which ho runs the show as ma.iter of ceremonies. As a co-\'-orkar of Char- lie McCarthy, he is perfectly willing to submersre him.self as straight man for a ve:itrilo(;u;ft'3 dummy. Up-to-date Farm Comment To our rural friends we might sug- gest listening to Farm Comment, broadca.st every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursiiay from 12.43 to 1, noon, over CRCtI The com- mentator, Norman Hogg, te^s us that eleven prizes, totalling to one ton of feed, are offered to listeners for let- ters giving personal opinioni of the prog'raras and suggestions. Mr. Hogg | Around The Dial RADIO HEADUNERS OF THE WEEK iiscusses questions of general interest to iarmers and gives up-to-the-minute prices and quotations. From CKCL comes news of a mam- moth Christmas party to be held over the air for the shut-ins. The broad- ca.st will take place on Thursday, De- cember 23rd from 2:15 until 5. On this progTam will be heard many of your favourites of the air. We tried to get several names for you, but apparently it is all to be a secret but definite asurance is ^iven that it will be somctl'.ini-r worth listening to. Modern Symphony Orchestra Among tile leadin;.;' mus'-a! pro- grams produced from the CBC studi- os will be Streamline, originating in Toronto, and heard on Thursday, De- comber 30tii. at nine p.m. Percy Faith will diii'ct the modern sympho- nic crchesuii i,i his own specially ar- ranged selections. Dorothy Ault. popular young songstress, and the Fa.-hionaires, a novelty trio, will be the guest artists. Those two young sophisticates of the pia.To, Lou Snyder and Murray Rot.-:, appear on the commission's first scheduled spring program. They a:e now heard every Thursday at i:13 p.m. over the commission net- .State-;. The last reports home that Reginald Stewart is negotiating v.-ith work in Canada and the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United the boys for an appearance on one of the Promenade Symphony Concerts. To give you an idea of what the boy« do in their spare time, Murray has become an exceptionally fine orgr.n- ist, and Lou ha."? been 9pead time blowing away at a sax. An all star Varsity show will be heard -N'ew Year's Eve over the NBC Blue-Network at nine o'clock. Under- prads from several eastern American Lniversitio.s will participate to maka the program a hundred per cent Col- legiate. This should prove an inter- esting feature. All the ncrformcrs who will appear will be students, and information regarding them and what they will do is being kept quiet. We take it anything can happen, and probably will. Happy New Year -And so as this will be the last column to appear in 1937, on behalf of the publishers, the advertisers, and yours sincerely, we wish you joy and happiness no e: I through the years to come. LISTEN., CANADA-I938/I IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S ^ ^ . 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