Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)
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Trade Personals: Leonard F. Cramer, since 1955 TVradio v.p. of Magnavox, ex-Avco v.p., onetime DuMont exec, v.p., has resigned, his future plans to be announced . . . Wm. P. Munro promoted to v.p. of CBS International, reporting to pies. Lewis Gordon . . . James J. Shallow, for the last year gen. mdsg. mgr. of Philco’s consumer products div. and onetime gen. mgr. of its radio div., resigns; he’s succeeded by John A. Rishel, marketing mgr. and ex-mgr. of refrigeration & freezer div. . . . Frederick H. Guterman, ex-v.p. of DuMont’s industrial & military equipment div., named ITT marketing development mgr. . . . Harold A. Strickland, gen. mgr. of GE industrial electronics div., promoted to v.p. . . . Don C. Livingston promoted to mobile radio sales mgr. of Motorola’s communications & electronics div., headquartering in Dallas, succeeded as Kansas City regional mgr. by Wm. H. Hawks . . . Jared Scott Smith, ex-GE transmitter design supervisor, promoted to mobile design engineering mgr. . . . L. A. Taylor, ex-Sparton Electronics, named contract market mgr., RCA defense electronics products dept., Moorestown, N. J. . . . Thomas Preston promoted to Zenith sales training mgr. . . . Walter C. Fisher, ex-gen. sales mgr., promoted to new post of marketing director of BorgWarner’s Norge div. . . . M. J. McDonald, ex-DuMont Labs, named mgr. of new Winston-Salem office of Scientific Sales Engineering Co. . . . Joseph R. McCurdy, ex-Carl Byoir & Assoc, v.p., named RCA mgr. of product news & field I’elations; Joseph T. Noland becomes mgr. of editorial & publications services . . . John H. Beedle, ex-commercial equipment mgr., promoted to mgr. of newly created Raytheon equipment & systems div.; J. Penn Rutherford promoted to mgr. of industrial apparatus div. . . . Harold B. Morrison pi'omoted to Sylvania Memphis district sales mgr.
Dr. Charles G. Smith, co-founder of Raytheon, pioneer in development of radio, retired Jan. 1.
ELECTRONICS PERSONALS: S. W. Herwald promoted to Westinghouse v.p. in charge of research; Howard S. Kaltenborn, ex-Industrial Relations Counselers, named v.p. & asst, to pres. Mark W. Cresap . . . Allan Lytel, ex-GE Labs, named pi’oposal coordination mgr., Avco’s Crosley div. . . . Frank J. Neuman promoted to marketing mgr. of Beckman’s Shockley Transistor Corp. subsidiary; R. L. Biesele, ex-Fenwal Inc., Ashland, Mass., named chief applications engineer . . . Eric L. Peterson, ex-pres. of Western Coil Products, named production mgr. of Jobbins Electronics, Menlo Park, Cal. . . . Spencer H. Bellue promoted to new post of asst. v.p. of Hughes Aircraft to promote semiconductor, electron tube and components sales . . . Dr. Lawrence J. Giacoletto, mgr. of Ford Motor Co. electronic lab, named chairman of IRE Detroit section . . . Col. Robert L. Johnston (USAF ret.) promoted to v.p. of Advance Industries, Cambridge, Mass. . . . Ralph D. Saylor named gen. mgr. of Western Union Pacific div., succeeding Wilson F. Fowler, retiring after 55 years . . . Charles H. Eisengrein promoted to plant engineer mgr., RCA missile & surface radar dept., Moorestown, N. J.
Dr. Elie J. Baghdady, MIT, given award of IRE Professional Group on Vehicular Communications at recent Chicago convention for outstanding paper; J. R. Neubauer, RCA, won honorable mention.
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“Radio-Phone” is RCA’s new “Citizens Band” 2-way unit, to sell at about $100. It weighs less than 10 lbs., measures 9x7x5-in., operates from 6 or 12-volt battery or regular AC power source. Says RCA: “The new radio is expected to find wide use among small-boat enthusiasts, hunters, fishermen, and farmers, as well as in homes & automobiles. It will also be useful in railroad marshaling yards, oil fields, construction projects and for many other person-to-person applications.” Reception distance is estimated at “several miles.”
On-campus personnel recruiting is subject of one-day U. S. Civil Service Commission conference Jan. 8 in Commerce Dept. Auditorium, Washington. Panel discussion will be led by Dr. Maynard M. Boring, GE consultant on engineering manpower; Donald Bridgeman, ex-director of college relations for AT&T; B. Brooke Bright, National Science Foundation.
Wayne Kerr Co. Ltd., of Chessington, England, which has set up distributing branch at 2920 N. 4th St., Philadelphia (Boyce M. Adams, mgr.) for measuring instruments it makes in electronics, communications, radar & other fields, is considering construction of manufacturingplant in Philadelphia area, according to managing director Richard Foxwell.
Emerson adds to 1959 TV line 5 models ranging from 17-in. portable priced at $158 to 21-in. lowboy at $368. Also introduced were one AM-FM stereo table radio priced at $98; 2 transistor radios at $44 & $68; 5 stereo-equipped phonos ranging from $78 to $228.
Four FM transmissions from one antenna is boast of Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd., ITT’s British affiliate, which has completed installation at Sandale for BBC. ITT states that there are several U. S. installations with 2 transmitters fed into single antenna, none with more. Sandale facility is part of Standard construction project involving 32 ten-kw and 6 one-kw transmitters at 6 locations.
Remote-control optical unit for big-screen projectors is offered by GiantView Electronics, new manufacturer in the field (Vol. 14:40). Designed particularly for smallgroup use, to avoid obstruction of view caused by control cabinet, it’s 16xl6x22-in., weighs 25 lbs., projects 15xl2-ft. picture. Control cabinet may be located up to 100 ft. away.
Videotape “advanced applications” listed by Ampex in new brochure: wind tunnel tests, operation in high-radiation areas, rocket & missile launchings, recording from moving missiles, educational TV, surgical operations, radar recording, pure data recording — “further applications are limited only by your imagination.”
Use of RCA video tape recorder at WBTV, Chai-lotte, N. C. (Ch. 3) is subject of article in RCA’s Oct. Broadcast News, which also includes description of closed-circuit color medical system at U of Mich. ; latter employs 3 color cameras, one black-&-white, 5 color receivers.
Technical aspect.s of videotape recording are treated in 8 ai-ticles in Nov. .lonnntl of I hr SM BTB -n coinpila tion of papers first pre.sentod at SMPTE convention in Washington last year, brought up to date in recent months.