NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1941)

NEW YORK TAX The NAB-New York Tax Committee, appointed last week by Neville IMiller to resist the proposed assessment of station operating equipment by the City of New York, met in New York last Friday. Decision was reached to employ local tax counsel at once and to urge New York City stations to give the committee their support. The City of New York Tax Department proposes to tax as real estate under the state law all radio, television and facsimile equipment. The committee contends such equip¬ ment is personal property and not taxable as real estate. The next meeting will be held in New York on January 3. 'I'hose in attendance were: Emanuel Dannett, WOR; Howard Hausmann, CBS; Henry Ladner, NBC; E. C. Sanger, WQXR; and Russell P. Place, NAB. FEATURE SPORTS SHOW Ellis Atteberry, manager of KCKN, Kansas City, had an outstanding feature sports show on Christmas Day. His effort was ably supported by a four column spread in the Kansas City Kansan. Greetings from members of the Kansas City Blues baseball team, 1939 American Association pennant win¬ ners, received from all parts of the United States, w^ere read over the air. The program also featured inter¬ views with: Roy Harney, secretary of the pennant-winning blues, and Walt Lochman, winner of the Minor League’s ‘‘most p(jpular announcer” award; and included Christmas mes¬ sages from the Mayor and City Manager, from five sports writers of Kansas City newspapers, from Ed Barrowq president of the Yankees, from Gabriel Paul of the World’s Champions Cincinnati Reds; and from Frank Collety of the American Association. Engineering OHIO STATE CONFERENCE The announcement of the full program for the Fourth Ohio State Broadcast Engineering Conference shows that an unusually interesting number of talks and lectures are to be given. Talks and lectures previously announced in the NAB Reports (p. 4819) are to be by E. K. Jett, Chief Engineer of the ECC, A. D. Ring, Assistant Chief I'lngineer of the ECC in charge of broadcasting; Harvey Eletcher, Bell Telephone Laboratories; Major Armstrong of Columbia University; W. R. G. Baker, Director of Engineering for the Radio Manufacturers Association and Peter Goldmark of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Recent discussions on high fidelity in connection with EM have produced considerable interest in quality. Sev¬ eral sessions such as “Speech Input Systems” by C. M. Lewis and J. D. Colvin, “Studio Acoustics” by Paul J. Washburn, “Sound Reproduction from Recordings” by V. E. Hunt, “Loud Speakers” by H. F. Olson and “Hear¬ ing The Determining Factor For High Fidelity” by Flarvey Fletcher will deal with the subject of faithful reproduction. Kenneth A. Norton from the FCC, long noted for his scientific work on radio will deliver a lecture on trans¬ mission in the Ultra High Frequencies. Mr. Norton has done some outstanding work on UHF transmission and his talk should be of unusual interest. Andrew Alford, well known for his antenna work in connection with blind landing, has recently turned his attention to the applica¬ tion of some of his developments for other FTHF services. His talk will be entitled “UHF Antennas and Transmis¬ sion Lines.” Raymond F. Guy of the National Broad¬ casting Company, one of the keenest students on FiM will deliver a talk entitled “FM Field Tests”. Mr. Guy’s talk will deal with the evaluation of the merits of AM and FM with various deviations. The talk will be illus¬ trated with a set of test records recorded to demonstrate the various effects encountered under different conditions. There will be a Round Table on FM problems under the Chairmanship of Paul deMars of the Yankee Net¬ work with E. J. Content of WOR and Dan Gallerup of WTMJ at the table. Those who have particular ques¬ tions on EM that they would like to hear discussed at the Round Table, are requested to send the questions to the Director of Engineering of NAB. Lynne C. Smeby, Director of Engineering for NAB will be Chairman of the “General Discussion and Ques¬ tion Box”, conducted by Andrew Ring of the FCC. Those who have questions on FCC engineering matters that they would like to have discussed during this session, are requested to send their questions to the Director. Following is the complete schedule; Speech Input Systems, C. M. Lewis, J. D. Colvin, RC.\; Studio .Acoustics, Paul J. Washburn, Johns-Manville ; Polyphase Broad¬ casting, Paul Loyet, Central Broadcasting Company; Round Table on Receivers, J. Kelly Johnson, Hazeltine Corp., E. B. Passow, Zenith Radio Corp., W. L. Dunn, Belmont Radio Corp.; Sound Reproduction from Recordings, F. V. Hunt, Harvard University; General Discussion and Question Box, Andrew D. Ring, FCC, Lynne C. Smeby, NAB; Loud Speakers, H, F. Olson, Radio Cor¬ poration of America; Television Standards, W. R. G. Baker, Gen¬ eral Electric Company; Color Television, Peter C. Goldmark, Columbia Broadcasting System; The Status of Television, Harry Sadenwater, Radio Corporation of America; Television Station Operation, Robert M. Morris, National Broadcasting Company; Television Field Pickups, Harold P. See, National Broadcasting Corp.; The Status of Frequency Modulation, Edwin M. Armstrong, Columbia University; FM Receivers, M. L. Levy, StrombergCarlson ; FM Field Tests, Raymond F. Guy, National Broadcasting Company; Operating Problems in FM Transmitters, I. R. Weir, General Electric Company; FM Broadcast Transmitter Circuit Design, John F. Morrison, Bell Telephone Laboratories; FM Allo¬ cation and Coverage, Stuart Bailey, Jansky & Bailey; UHF An¬ tennas and Transmission Lines, .Andrew .Alford, Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company; Round Table on FM Problems, E. J. Content, WOR, Paul deMars, Yankee Network, Dan Gallerup, WTMJ ; Hearing the Determining Factor for High Fidelity, Harvey 8 — January 3, 1941