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CBS Live Color Televison CBS nted it> live-color camera during the month. The press saw the demonstration over a closed circuit instead of off the air and the camera held a fixed position, NBC's live-color demonstration about a year ago had models moving and the demonstration was off the air even though it was a directional beaming and not an a6tual broadcast. CHS' live color was brighter than its Bret presentation due to the fact that there were more frames pictures per minute 1 48 instead of 40 > and other sharpening of techniques. NBC Video Chain WNBC TV i' former! v UNBT is set as the key station of the NBC video chain. First station to be joined with it regularly via land lines i coaxial cables is WPTZ. \\ RGB. GE'a station in Schenectady, is joined to tin NBC web via relay stations. This has enabled GE to double the number of hours the station's on the air and Philco will also give many more hours service to set owners in the Quaker City. RCA is using Philadelphia as a test city, giving it far more than its share of receivers as they come off the production lines, and they aNo have RCA engineers checking dealers' antennas. Deal also has RCA engineer^ installing the sets when they're sold until such time as the manufacturer feels safe to turn the job over to dealer service men. air Features, Inc. in association with Frank and Anne Hummert are pleased to announce the formation of Featured Radio Programs, Inc. and the appointment of Edward M. Kirbv President and General Manager Live Pro-cram Transcriptions ( )ONSULTA1 EON providing a new, hand-tailored program and production service to meet the individual needs of radio stations networks and advertising agencies. 247 I'ark Aveni i: New York Ciiv Wickersham 7 •>■ 00 The Harry Wilder Coup Both Harry Wilder and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union plan to make certain that they'll get FM sets in their station areas quickly by contracting with a manufacturer for a sizeable block of sets. Wilder will start a campaign to sell the sets and is certain to be able to place them in Syracuse, where his station will be located, without much trouble. Off-therecord deal has the ILGWL" sets sold before the manufacturer has turned them over, the union having arranged for the "subscription" sales in advance among its members. First station man to try this set sale tie-up was Leonard Asch, who owns WBCA in Schenectady. Being an ex-GE man he was able, when he first set up his station, to buy a block of receivers at a low price. It put his station on the map. Reason for ILGWU and Harry Wilder doing the same thing is obvious. Morns Novik is a consultant for both of them. Fax Slated for Hotels First First large-scale use of facsimile will be its commercial applications. Both Radio Inventions. Inc. 'John V. L. Hogani. and Finch Telecommunications, Inc.. will have installations in hotel lobbies, clubs, and restaurants long before any quantity get into homes. BMB Trims Its Sails Practically all station maps have been sent out by BMB and the network coverage books are being set up now. With the technical work proceeding on schedule, the mental work got out of hand this past month and all the "uses" of BMB station coverage figures which had been discussed at clinic meetings were announced as being without official sanction. A BMB figuresmean-everything rally which had been scheduled for the NAB convention was cut down to research size and everything is under control with the exception of individual use of BMB figures (see editorial, page Wide Open Spaces for TV Television City, which is being built in the Bronx. New York, will have on its lots at least one of the N. V. stations that will receive a license. ABC will be TV-located in Queens Sunnyside New York., around the first of the year. The network is certain to have its maximum 5 licenses for stations within the next GO days, the first net to be so "gifted." Television Needs Programing. Kobak Edgar Kobak. President of MBS. the only network that hasn't yet gone into television, warned the TBA Television Broadcasters Association in their second annual meet at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York Oct. 10, 11 that unless emphasis is placed on programing there won't be an audience for the medium. 74 SPONSOR