. Bell telephone magazine . G phases of the development of radio broadcasting could be jus-tified only by a study of the public need, as indicated by publicdemand, for this type of service. If this demand was to belimited in extent, or to give evidence of a public interest whichwould have no permanency, the expenditure of effort or capitalon radio broadcasting would be obviously unjustified. In order to continue its research in radio telephone transmis-sion, begun in 1915, the Bell System established, late in 1921,an experimental station known as 2XB. This was located at463 West Street, New Yo
. Bell telephone magazine . G phases of the development of radio broadcasting could be jus-tified only by a study of the public need, as indicated by publicdemand, for this type of service. If this demand was to belimited in extent, or to give evidence of a public interest whichwould have no permanency, the expenditure of effort or capitalon radio broadcasting would be obviously unjustified. In order to continue its research in radio telephone transmis-sion, begun in 1915, the Bell System established, late in 1921,an experimental station known as 2XB. This was located at463 West Street, New York City, at what is now the Bell Tele-phone Laboratories. About the middle of 1922, StationWBAY was put into operation at 24 Walker Street, New YorkCity, and shortly thereafter Station 2XB was given the callletters WEAF. Stations WBAY and WEAF were operatedfor some time, until WBAY was abandoned and WEAF becamethe Bell Systems only broadcasting station in New Bell System stations were used, not alone for the pur-. By the Time of the First Tunney-Dempsey Bout in 1927, Radios Reach HadBeen Extended to the Limits of the Country, North, South, East and West. 79 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY pose of continuing experimentation in radio telephone trans-mission, but for the not less important purpose of ascertainingthe public reaction to radio broadcast programs of high stations became, in effect, laboratories in which werestudied certain technical problems and the problem of publicdemand for radio broadcasting programs. After this experi-mental work had been completed. Station WEAF was sold tothe Radio Corporation of America, ownership subsequentlybeing transferred to the National Broadcasting Company. Meanwhile, Bell System engineers and scientists had donea considerable amount of work which was to have a directbearing upon the development of radio broadcasting, and par-ticularly on the use of telephone circuits for program transmis-sion. Before the actual develop
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