Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1952)

9 tive v.p. Ray Sparrow says such a device is still quite far in future. For coming year at least, most tuner makers feel that the all-channel vhf-uhf sets will continue to use 2 tuners — one for vhf and one for uhf — though tuners may be geared together mechanically in "one-knob tuning" arrangement. Sarkes Tarzian, who makes single-channel uhf "receptors" for Westinghouse and others, and is now also turning out continuous tuner, echoes sentiment heard more and more in industry — ■ that "all-channel tuning will be the real answer." General Instrument says output of its continuous tuner is "building up rapidly," with three-or-f ourf old increase scheduled in next 90 days. Sales mgr. E. A. Freed predicts that by mid-1953 more than half of industry's output will be sets equipped to receive both vhf & uhf. * * * $ Pre-Christmas push brought TV production back up week ending Dec. 5, when RTMA counted 199,407 units produced (9349 private label) as compared with 159,513 in preceding week when it had fallen from 198,917 as of Nov. 21. That brought total output to about 5,565,000 in 49 weeks, so that 6,000,000 for year seems assured despite Christmas week letdown. Factory inventories went to 104,864 from 91,668. Radios fared well, too, production jumping to 229,152 (75,775 private label) as of Dec. 5 from 185,972 the week before. Week's figure was top for year. Factory inventories of radios went down to 156,942 from 173,301 — also lowest for year. Week's radios were 85,646 home sets, 34,623 portables, 58,542 clock, 50,341 auto. Trade Personals: Lee Golder, chief, TV-radio section, NPA Electronics Div., on Jan. 1 becomes gen. sales mgr., Carbonneau Industries, Grand Rapids speaker manufacturer; William J. Bapst, chief, expansion & expediting section, becomes v.p., Carroll Electronics, New York, specializing in military equipment; Donald H. Cooper, asst, chief, broadcast & communications equipment section, Dec. 15 joins Leesburg, Va. labs of Washington consulting engineers Weldon & Carr . . . Hays MacFarland, chairman of MacFarland, Aveyard & Co. ad agency, elected to Hallicrafters board of directors, replacing J. Harry La Brum, resigned . . . William B. Doyle, ex-Admiral San Diego distributing div. sales mgr., named sales mgr. of new Admiral’s home freezer div.; William P. Mackle, ex-AdmiralN. Y., sales mgr. of new range div. — both reporting to sales v.p. W. C. Johnson . . . Charles Kayko, ex-president, Sparton TV-radio div., named CBS-Columbia administrative v.p., and Harold H. Knubbe named asst, to engineering v.p. . . . Wm. R. Wilson, Philco treasurer, elected chief financial officer, Philco International . . . Raymond K. McClintock, ex-asst. chief engineer, Sylvania radio tube div., named to newly created post of mgr. of new product promotion . . . Glenn E. Webster, ex-NBC engineering, joins GE as district sales mgr. for broadcast equipment, headquartering in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart . . . Grady L. Roark, central regional mgr. in Chicago for GE equipment tube sales, promoted to mgr. of tube dept.’s equipment tube sales . . . S. L. Spraggins, Hoffman Radio production v.p., has retired due to ill health, his duties assumed by president H. Leslie Hoffman, who has also named Arthur Bound and Indexed We will index and bind, between embossed book covers, a limited quantity of all 1952 issues of the Television Digest Weekly Newsletters, plus the Final Television Allocation Report, plus the semi-annual TV Factbooks with all Addenda, plus all Supplements and Special Reports. This volume will provide a handy and handsome permanent reference for your own or your company library. Orders will be taken only until Jan. 5. Price: $25 per volume. Baxter purchasing director; Harvey Lipp Hoffman Labs purchasing director; John W. Cherrett asst, to Lipp; Marvin Klassen buyer of TV cabinets; B. L. Fuller supt. of cabinet plant; J. T. McAllister service mgr.; Byron Brown market mgr., C. K. Clark succeeding him as San Francisco district mgr. . . . Dr. John J. Bohrer, ex-Chemical Research Group leader, named associate director of research, International Resistance Co. . . . WTm. H. Boedeker Jr., employe services mgr., named asst, to Louis J. Collins, CapehartFarnsworth sales director . . . Alfred E. Smith Jr., son of the late Governor of N. Y., elected chairman of Electromath Corp., White Plains, N. Y. (electronics equipment) . . . Sidney Harman named gen. mgr., Harman-Kardon Inc. (electronics and audio-visual equipment), formerly known as Kardon Mfg. Co John W. Carroll, Motorola Chicago’s south side sales mgr., named Pittsburgh regional sales mgr. for parent company, succeeding Edward L. Furbish, retiring. ■ RTMA will issue consumer education package on servicing this summer, consisting of 15-min. film for showing to civic groups, pamphlet and TV spot announcements, in its continuing drive to defend servicemen against charges of gypping. Program, to cost $30,000, was revealed this week by RTMA service coordinator Albert Coumont in address to Chicago convention of National Alliance of Television & Electronic Service Assns. Help wanted dept.: GE is offering bounty of $5 to employes for each new male recruit for its Syracuse electronics plant, sweetening this with a TV set award each month to employe enlisting greatest number, a clock radio to runner up. Greatest need is for bulb handlers, test men, tool makers, janitors. RCA’s Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin awarded 1952 Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for “outstanding contributions to the concept and design of electronic components and systems” — notably the iconoscope and kinescope tubes. Sylvania sales engineer Don Caverly has written A Primer of Electronics & Radiant Energy for new TV-radio servicemen; it’s 340 pages, contains 200 pictures and diagrams, is available at $4.50 from Sylvania adv. dept., 1100 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.