Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1952)

Mexico sets for rural communities, 2:11 Monterrey, 4:14 Guadalajara, 4:14 prospective set makers, 13:10 Tijuana, 23:12, 34:3, 38:12, 39:14, 40:8 Azcarraga-O’Farrill tieup, 26:6 TV imports, 34 :9 Mexico City’s Televicentro, 36:4 XEQ-TV, 39:2 FM (Frequency Modulation) BROADCASTING promotion campaign, 2:8, 7:13, 9:13, 14:12, 18:10, 25:11 ILGWU drops WFDR, New York, 6:6 transit FM upheld by Supreme Court, 22:3 FCC dismisses Transit Riders protest, 34:11 station shifts frequency to help TV, 42:14 Comr. Walker sees gradual, sound growth, 50:6 HOME LIFE, TV’s IMPACT ON (see also Surveys) oddities, 7 :8 landlord-tenant court ruling, 14:11 effect on restaurants, 16:10 flood victims save TV sets, 21:7 effects on eyes, 21:12 man climbs WHAS-TV tower, 25 :4 BBC program for deaf, 25 :5 steel strikers must sell TVs to get public assistance, 26 :6 impact on libraries, 27 :9 newspaper readership survey, 28:5 AT&T’s Osborne muses about future, 31:10 "TV neck" ailment, 33:12 beer sales boom, 33:12 WDTV delivers popcorn to homes, 42 :8 key to divorce case, 42 :14 set3 consume $200,000,000 in electricity, 43:12 man shoots set, 43:12 INDUSTRIAL MICROWAVE status of industry, 18 :5 INDUSTRIAL TV TV explored as aircraft aid, 6:12 general roundup, 9:6, 50:11, 52:11 underwater equipment, 14:14, 24:11, 52:11 TV-radar combination for air navigation, 34:11 RCA commercializes Vidicon, 37:11, 38:10 Wilmot Castle selling CBS gear, 39:13 INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) awards, 9:15, 39:12, 46:8 convention, 10:4, 52:11 officers, 45:9 JOINT TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (JTAC) "Radio Spectrum Conservation”, 4:4, 41:10 new officers, 23:9 current projects, 37 :11 spurious radiation project, 50 :7 LABOR — see Unions MERCHANDISING Westinghouse "tele-theatres” for parks, 2:8 tax -warranty pricing problems, 2:9, 7:12 saturation seen by Sylvania’s Mansfield, 2:10 first Reg. W dealer prosecutions, 2:10, 11:9 trade practice rules, 3:9, 15:17, 19:10, 25:9 NARDA officers, 3:10 inventory at end of 1951, 6:9 Reg. W hearings, 6:10, 12:12 fair trade, 6:10, 9:13, 19:10, 20:9, 24:9 Philadelphia set sales, 6:10, 23:9 Cincinnati second-set campaign, 6:12 Buffalo TV "town meeting”, 7:11 5 New York dealers merge, 7:12 ’Louisville Courier-Journal' ad policy, 7 :12 FRB study of sales, inventory, 8:9 New York voluntary ad control, 9:13 BLS reports 10% drop in set prices, 11 :10 Denver TV club, 11:10 hotel rentals, 11:10 general price cuts, 12 :8 average prices, 12:9 NARDA attacks fix-it-yourself ads, 12:12 shows, marts, fairs, 12:12 inboard pricing, 13:8, 14:10, 28:9 FTC survey of questionable commercials, 14 :9 •Sl-a-day "storing” gimmick, 14:12 Magnavox survey of buying plans, 14:12 FRB survey indicates soft market thru 1952, 15:17 Reg. W relaxes from $50 to $100, 16:17 Schulte stores carrying radios, 16:8 Reg. W suspended, 19:8 tailored price ceilings, 19:9 industry seeks end of all controls, 20:8 Mansfield calls inventories “normal”, 20:8 RTMA dealer shipments, 20:9, 46:10 TV tops NARDA members’ 1951 sales, 21:9 ‘Fortune’ analyzes price structure, 22:8 sets loaned steel strikers, 23:10 NAED officers, 24:11 reactions to one-line-a-year proposal, 25:11,26:8 decline in TV-radio-phono sales, 28:9 market indicated by new CPs, 29:8, 47:1 Videotown survey of sets, 30:10 Music Show, 31 :8 TV trade-in guide, 32:7 old models in Denver, 33:9 FRB calculates TV market, 34 :9 OPS suspends price ceilings, 35 :8 BBB gets tough in New York, 36:8 Farr warns of too many dealers, 36:8 price increases, 39:9, 40:10 Washington "Big 10” group, 39:11 NEDA officers, 39:12 brands advertised in Portland, 40:12 ‘Baltimore Sun’ editorial on multiple sets, 41:8 ad writers spoofed, 42:9 OPS reimposes parts price ceilings, 42:10, 43:9, 44:8, 48:9 RCA’s Elliott attacks price-cutting, 43:12 NEMA officers, 46:8 impact of elections, 46 :9 Philadelphia BBB cautions on ads, 46:10 Zenith-RCA uhf battle in Fresno, 48:11 Buffalo distributor optimistic about uhf, 52:9 Westinghouse offers European trip, 52:9 MILITARY PROCUREMENT— see Mobilization MILITARY, USE OF TV BY buying no TV time for recruiting, 6 :7 Signal Corps mobile unit, 36:6 TV in guided missiles, 38:11 MOBILIZATION AND WAR Morris leaves NPA, 1 :9 *Newsweek’ analysis of military electronics program, 1:11 Milling DPA-NPA electronics chief, 2 :8 post-Korea plant expansion, 2:8, 11:11, 47:9 electronics percentage of defense dollar, 3:10, 7:9 Electronics Production Board members, 4:12 electronics in 1953 budget, 6:11 RTMA task force freeze report, 6 :1 station construction, 5:1, 6:8, 8:4, 9:4, 12:4, 14:15, 16:10, 24:12, 25:14, 32:3, 49:4 electronic weapons shown Senate, 6:11 GE mica-processing technique, 6 :11 new Signal Corps center, 6:11 new selenium rectifier process, 6:11 V oice of America ship, 7:8 antenna makers meet with NPA, 7 :12 materials restrictions disappearing, 12:8 BLS manpower analysis, 12:10 NPA second-quarter allocations for expansion, 12:13 Navy tube ruggedization, 12:13 third-quarter allotments, 13:10, 22:10 Tobe Deutschmann charged with violation, 13 :10 military electronics deliveries, 13:10 no tube shortages seen, 14:14 more govt, coordination urged, 14:14 transmitting tube meeting, 15:18 European electronics status, 18:8, 19:10 steel strike, 18:11, 23:1, 24:11, 27:6, 30:2, 32:7 McDaniel outlines procurement shortcomings, 19:11 symposium on components, 19:11 value of contracts since Korea, 20 :10 new anti-collision radar, 20 :10 Parris commends conservation efforts, 21:10 Taylor praises RTMA small business program, 21:10 ‘Tele-Tech’ procurement chart, 21:10 top 100 military contractors, 21:10 tour by Electronics Production Board, 22 :10 new base period for antenna makers, 22:10 engineers “imported” from Europe, 22:10 military electronics personnel changes, 22:10 survey of graduating engineers, 23:9 Cotton new chief, NPA electronics, 23:10 Army integrates research, 23:10 copper-aluminum controls affecting only largest, 25 :8 Milling leaves NPA, 25:11 RTMA Material Bureau report, 25:13 NPA Electronics Div. staff cut, 30:11, 39:13, 41:9, 49:15, 52:11 $396,000,000 goal in govt.-aided expansion, 32:7 Telecommunications Planning Committee, 35:9 Fowler ODM chief, 36:9 McDonald NPA administrator, 38 :11 charges of slowdown on govt, orders, 41 :9 Small leaving Munitions Board, 41 :9 election may mean end of controls, 45:8 industry not overloaded, says Cotton, 47 :9 RDB reliability advisory group, 50:11 McCoy acting NPA administrator, 51:11 MONOPOLY — see Anti-Trust MOVIES Warner’s financial reports, 1:7, 8:11, 23:11, 37:10 TV clauses in film contracts, 1:12 Paramount-ABC-UPT hearing starts, 3:7 UPT buys 50% of Microwave Associates, 3:10, 18:10 MacKaye ’Saturday Evening Post’ series, 3:11, 4:13 Library of Congress catalog, 3:12 Chemical Bank leases films to CBS-TV, 4 :7 NBC reported buying UI films, 4:8 boxoffice related to TV saturation, 4:13 Brittannica Films catalog, 5:6 ‘Variety" relates Wall St. “sensitivity”, 5:7 TV blamed for Chicago theatre closings, 6:6, 7:7 Arnall named Price Administrator, 6:11 Joan Crawford film offer, 6:12 Disney financial reports, 7 :9, 21 :11 Harold Lloyd suit on TV use of movie, 7:14 Columbia Pictures financial reports, 8:11, 25:12, 42:13, 48:11 Republic’s TV expansion plans, 8:11 WXYZ-TV rents 1200 films, 9:10 movie promotion via TV, 10:7, 12:7, 37:5, 45:5 exhibitors boycotting producers selling to TV, 10:7 Pathe & Crosby planning more TV films, 10:7 Transfilm Inc. series, 11:6 Kintner estimates TV film use, 12:15 ’Billboard’ analyzes TV film market, 13:3 Abram Myers attacks TV, 13 :4 Official Films financial reports, 13:11, 41:6 20th Century-Fox financial reports, 14:13, 21:11, 37:10, 48:11 Monogram financial reports, 14:13, 24:10, 26:7, 41:6, 49:15 Technicolor financial reports, 14:13, 37:10 Skouras calls home TV “enemy” of movies, 14:15 AP considers TV news film field, 15:20, 22:6 Roach doing CBS’s “Amos ’n’ Andy”, 16:6 UPT financial reports, 16:9, 20:11, 31:9, 42:13 Paramount financial reports, 16:9, 22:11, 33:10, 49 :15 Paramount buys 50% of Vistascope, 16:10 network film expenditures, 18:6 movie-TV nomenclature, 18:8 20th Century surveying TV film field, 18:12 Albert Black TV Productions, 20:10 Autry suit against Republic, 20:12 Universal financial reports, 21:11, 26:7, 40:13 Republic financial reports, 21:11, 27:9, 43:13 feature films termed overpriced, 22:6 exhibitors eye theatre commercials, 22:6 exhibitors attitude on theatre TV, subscription reasons for California theatre closings, 22:6 RKO financial reports, 22:11, 33:10, 37:10, 48:11 National Theatres financial reports, 23:11 more films for TV, 24:2 big Ford Motor-Screen Gems contract, 24:2, 25:12 UNESCO film study, 25:5 Decca acquires control of Universal, 25:12 no theatre in Levittown, 25:12 Minneapolis exhibitor to sell theatres, produce TV films, 25:12 British movie-TV battle, 25:12 Disney evaluates TV, 25:12 exhibitors polled on TV effects, 25:13 •Variety’ roundup of Hollywood TV film, 26:5 Goldwyn sees TV-movies marriage, 26:5 Republic drops TV film production, 28 :10 theatre interests in TV applications, 29:5 16mm anti-trust suit, 30:4, 31:5, 32:5, 34 TO 36:6, 39:5 ’ 1951 boxoffice total, 30:5 “Dreamboat” movie satirizes TV, 31:10 theatre TV replaces newsreel at Miami’s Carib, Loew’s financial reports, 33:10 NBC-exhibitor promotion, 33:12, 37:7 Canadian attendance, 34:7 ‘Alliances of Necessity — TV & Movies’, 37:1 SMPTE convention, 37:6, 41:5 TOA convention, 38:4 no FCC "taboos” on movie ownership, 38:4 Stolkin group buys RKO control, 38:11, 39:13. 40:9, 43:13 20th Century-Fox completes splitup, 39:13 Goldwyn on movies vs. TV, subscription TV, 39 :14 UTP’s Blink estimates TV film gross, 41:6 Gamble shifts from theatres to TV, 42:13 RKO retains Dr. Alfred Goldsmith, 42:14 Col. Levinson dies, 43:10 Vitapix formed, 45:6 Paramount may sell 2000 shorts to CBS, 45:11 initial decision on ABC-UPT merger, 46:1 Warner’s theatre divestment plan, 50:5 Republic sells 104 features to CBS, 51:3, 52 '6 TV film value for 1953 estimated, 52:6 Paramount enters TV film field, 62:6 Columbia expands TV film, 52:6 RCA record div. to distribute film, 62:6 Hughes reassumes control of RKO, 52:10 Theatre TV roundup of status, goals, 2:2 Theatre Guild presentations, 3:6 Eidophor, 3:4, 5:7, 6:12, 9:16, 11:12, 13:11, 14:15, 21:11, 26:3, 40:14 events scheduled, 8:11 GPL equipment, 9 :13 UPT operations disappointing, 10:5 movie interests attack AT&T, 17:6 new RCA kinescope, 18:12 Maxim-Robinson fight, 21:12, 25:6, 26:5 civil defense presentations, 25:6 frozen out of Gavilan-Tumer fight, 26:5 ‘N.Y. Times’ Crowther dubious of future, 31:4 Walcott-Marciano fight, 36:10, 37:6, 39:4, 40:9 first coast-to-coast hookup, 37:6, 39:4 TNT "Tele-Sessions”, 43:6, 45:11 "Carmen” from Metropolitan opera, 46:12, 48:7. 50:4, 51:4 business conferences, 48:12, 49:6, 50:4 FCC Hearing appearances, 3:5, 4:3, 5:12, 7:7 postponed, 9:16, 15:20, 22:6, 30:12, 46:12 common carriers queried by FCC, 14:7 NARTB engineering committee, 36:6 movies seek data from AT&T, 37:5, 40:9 list of witnesses, 41:10 first phase of testimony, 43:3, 44:7 MUSIC AGENCIES ASCAP income, 2:4, 14:15 ASCAP-BMI feud, 15:20 ‘Billboard’ section on BMI clinics, 20:7 Petrillo blasts TV “canned” music, 30:6 MUTUAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM (MBS) billings, 1:7, 15:15, 47:6 votes* permit more than 30% to single holder, TV ’plans, 14:16, 25:5 Frank White resigns, 17 :5 personnel changes, 21:5, 24:10 new board, 27 :5 Theodore Streibert resigns, 41 :10 rate cuts, 42:7 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RADIO & TELEVISION BROADCASTERS (NARTB) code seal, 1:12 ABC-TV joins, 4:6 convention, 4:6, 7:8, 14:1 code review board, 7:3, 9:9, 40:14 survey of TV job prospects, 7 :8 3