Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1952)

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6 vision Laboratories Inc., an affiliate of Paramount Pictures Corp. , or anyone else for that matter, could go ahead and manufacture color equipment so long as additional materials, other than those duly allocated, were not required." This, he said, was "sound and logical". Order M-90, which followed meeting, is something else again, Sen. Johnson wrote. "This order," he told Mr. Wilson, "is just another unwarranted crippling blow aimed directly and specifically at color TV. " Letter praised "herculean efforts" of CBS, without which "color TV would have been years away," and asserted that "every conceivable legal maneuver and technical roadblock has been used in the past years to delay the availability of color TV to the general public." J. A. Milling, chief of NPA Electronics Division's end equipment section, was given job of administering M-90, Senator noted. Mr. Milling, letter said, "is an RCA Service Co. vice president ... loaned on a dollar-a-year basis to NPA... Mr. Milling knows of the long, hard struggle the TV industry has experienced in developing color TV to the point of aceptability to the FCC. I am sure he will agree that this is no time to start moving backward in the TV art with new roadblocks." |~Mr. Milling, who replaces Edmund T. Morris Jr. as director of Electronics Div. Feb. 1 (Vol. 8:2), has been succeeded as administrator of M-90 by Leon Golder, chief of the division's radio & TV section.] Mr. Wilson's matter-of-fact reply, dated Jan. 22, insisted that order M-90 "closely follows the consensus of views expressed at the [Oct. 25] meeting." "In view of the fact that there is misunderstanding on the part of one company [apparently a reference to Chromatic] as to the nature of the discussion at the Oct. 25 conference, and since other members of the industry have a natural and direct interest in the problem," Mr. Wilson wrote, "another conference of the entire industry will be held on Feb. 6 [later postponed to Feb. 8]..." $ $ * Another color TV letter went out this week — this one from film exhibitor and producer exponents of theatre TV. Motion Picture Assn, of America, Theatre Owners of America, National Exhibitors Theatre-TV Committee wrote NPA for clarification of M-90, which NPA legalists have said bans manufacture of color theatre-TV as well as home TV equipment (Vol. 7:47). They requested interpretation excluding theatre TV from color ban, or at the least, "an opportunity to confer with you, in the same manner in which you conferred with representatives of the home TV receiver industry." Theatre-TV backers made these principal points: (1) Home TV manufacturers were consulted before M-90 was issued; theatre interests weren't. (2) "Little, if any, critical material will be required for color projection over and above that now permitted for black-&-white theatre TV." Personal Notes: Walter W. Krebs, president-publisher, Tribune Publishing Co., Johnstown, Pa. (WJAC & WJACTV) named alternate delegate-at-large to Republican national convention in Chicago July 7 . . . Lawson Wimberly, national TV-radio director of IBEW, Washington, has been assigned to TV fulltime; A1 Hardy, ex-shop steward, WTOP, Washington, now handling radio . . . Robert E. Kintner, ABC president, named chairman of Radio & TV Div. of 1952 Heart Fund Drive . . . William Forest Crouch, ex-Filmcraft Productions, named executive producer of new TV film dept, set up by Sound Masters Inc., N. Y. . . . John Bourcier promoted to ABC radio’s New York audio operations supervisor, succeeding George Fisher, resigning to join his father’s silk manufacturing firm; Lawrence Williams now maintenance supervisor, Pierre Verseput recording supervisor . . . Warren C. Abrams, ex-Metropolitan Life, appointed CBS-TV asst, research mgr. under Fay Day . . . Charles A. Hammarstrom, recently with Raymer, formerly with Morse International and Kenyon & Eckhardt, joins Katz New York office to handle spot radio sales by direct contact with advertisers . . . Eugene S. Thomas, ex-WOR-TV sales chief, has joined George P. Hollingbery Co., station representatives, as v.p. for TV . . . David H. Polon, ex-R. T. O’Connell Co., named director, TV-radio dept., Emil Mogul Co. NARTB-TV membership jumped to 80 stations (out of nation’s 108) with addition this week of ABC-TV’s 5 owned-&-managed stations. At same time, ABC-TV network itself joined association, meaning that all 4 networks are now members. With NARTB-TV code due to go into effect March 1, president Harold Fellows is scheduled to submit names of 5 candidates for TV Review Board to board of directors meeting Feb. 14. NARTB convention March 30-April 2 in Chicago’s Conrad Hilton (Stevens) Hotel now being arranged, and pre-registration and hotel registration forms will shortly be sent members. Lloyd Thomas, owner of KGFW, Kearney, Neb., and onetime NBC and Westinghouse radio station executive, died in Kearney Jan. 21 at age of 62.