Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronic reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1959
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1959)
Leaf #:
00069
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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January 24, 1959 • Radnor, Pa. • MUrray 8-3940 • Vol. 15: No. 4 SUMMARY-INDEX OF THE WEEK'S NEWS NO LETUP IN SPECTRUM DEMANDS by non-broadcast users. FCC attempts to mollify legitimate requests, but users complain of "party" crowding (pp. 1 & 6). ANTI-TV BARRAGE to be stepped up by newspapers and magazines. TV-radio promoters fight back with statistics showing what happened during news strikes (pp. 2 & 4). NEW REP FIRM may be formed by CBS affiliates now handled by CBS-TV spot sales — if FCC knocks networks out of rep business. NBC affiliates quiet so far (p. 2). 240 VIDEOTAPE RECORDERS delivered by Ampex in 32 months following spectacular unveiling to NAB convention. Complete list of U.S. and foreign users (pp. 3 & 16). ARMED FORCES TV PROGRAMMING breakthrough may be in sight. Military to kinescope 3 networks' programs subject to sponsors' OK. Commercials deleted (p. 3). STEREO RADIO BATTLE may begin soon, as FCC prepares to consider issue. Conflict over FM systems forecast. NSRC outlines testing program (pp. 4, 8 & 15). BOOSTER BAN BRINGS REVOLT in Congress against FCC's "peremptory" policy. Sens. Carroll & Allott lead drive to rescue western operators (p. 5). NEW FCC PROBES LOOM as House Commerce Committee approves revival of oversight unit (p. 7). HARTFORD UHF RESUMES under new ownership, changing on-air total to 547 (84 uhf). Canada's 55th, TV, CJDC-TV, Dawson Creek, B. C. begins operation (p. 8). Manufacturing-Distribution-Finance REVOLUTIONARY NEW TUBE may make possible transistor TV. "Cold-Cathode" types seen ending TV-radio tube replacements, cutting power requirements (pp. 12 & 14). DILEMMA OF STEREO is the question of whether public prefers single or dual cabinet instruments. CBS has dualchannel, single amplifier (p. 12). FORMAL CANADIAN PROTEST against anti-trust suits involving Canadian subsidiaries of American firms to be lodged with Attorney General Rogers (p. 15). INDUSTRY HUNGERS FOR UNUSED TV SPECTRUM: We've looked into demands for spectriom space from non-broadcast services — with an eye to the kinds of pressures on FCC to make uhf TV work or abandon it to industrial use. Bell system's pitch for 75 me of uhf space for millions of car-phones (Vol. 14:51) is still by far the biggest potential bite. FCC has always fobbed off similar AT&T ideas, which started in 1945 with request for 30 me in vicinity of 180 me. But AT&T believes that can't go on forever. Other spectrum hunters cover a great gamut of users — from the serious to the preposterous. Commission has been rather successful up to now, politically, in keeping such demands from boiling over. One of most important techniques was to split mobile radio channels, so that each transmitter took half the spectrum it did before. This doubled the number of available channels. Furthermore, a legitimate petitioner seldom gets flat denial. He's given a chunk of spectrum to share with someone else. His service is frequently irritatingly slow because of "party-line" overcrowding — but he does have something to work with. One fine "dumping ground" for new users is citizen's radio band, 460-470 me. Anyone can get in there as long as his purpose is legal and he's a U.S. citizen. This was brain-child of former Comr. E. K. (Jack) Jett, now v.p. & TV director of WMAR-TV, Baltimore. But the band has its limitations; equipment is expensive in that neck of the spectrum, and its propagation is poorer than lower frequencies. FCC recently opened new citizen's band in 27-mc region, and it expects hot demand. Citizen's band is also a breeder of pressures on spectrum. A user finds radio means money, convenience, safety, etc., wants more of it. Big industrial corporations aren't too eager to make a lot of noise about asking FCC to give them some uhf — or to shift TV to uhf and slip them a little