Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)

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VOL 16: No. 50 11 Stations ^ Canada-U.S. Satellites: Canadian TV satellites of U.S. stations were approved for the first time last week by the Board of Broadcast Governors. BBG established a new class of station license — renewable until the areas are served by Canadian TV stations — which doesn’t require the satellites to meet Canadian-content programming requirements. Four satellites were approved — to repeat programs from 3 U.S. stations. The Board recommended these grants: (1) To Horace M. Card for Ch. 4 & Ch. 5, to repeat programs of KXLY-TV Spokane from Saddle Mt. & Mt. Sentinel, British Columbia. (2) To Sioux Lookout, (Ont.) Chamber of Commerce, Ch. 9 & 7, to repeat WDSMTV Superior, Wis. from Sioux Lookout, and KDAL-TV Duluth from Hudson, Ont. BBG also approved French-language CBC-TV satellites at Mont Tremblant & Mont Laurier, Que., and these privately-owned satellites, to be licensed to their mother stations : To CHCA-TV Red Deer for Banff & Coronation, Alta; to CHBC-TV Kelowna for Keremeos, B.C.; to CHAT-TV Medicine Hat for Pivot, Alta.; to CKBI-TV Prince Albert for North Battleford, Sask., to CKRS-TV Jonquiere for Roberval & Chicoutimi, Que. Grant for a new TV station was made to radio CJFP for Ch. 7, Riviere du Loup, Que., conditioned on its reaching agreement with CBC-TV for network service. Application by Northwest Bcstg. Co. for TV station at North Battleford was rejected in favor of the satellite granted there to CKBI-TV Prince Albert. Power increases were approved for CHCA-TV Red I Deer, Alta.; CKMI-TV & CFCM-TV Quebec (Vol. 16:47 pl2). CFPL-TV London, Ont. was given permission to increase antenna height to 1075 ft. BBG also approved the sale of CJSS-TV Cornwall, Ont. (Vol. 16:47 pl2) to a group headed by Bushnell Bcstg. Co. (CJOH-TV Ottawa) & Canadian Marconi Co. (CFCP-TV Montreal). Anti-trust suit for $1 million by radio WNDR Syracuse against Samuel I. Newhouse’s newspapers & stations there, alleging that their “package” advertising deals damaged WNDR competitively, has been thrown out of court for the second time. Instructed by the Court of Appeals to reconsider an earlier ruling denying WNDR’s claims against Newhouse’s WSYR-TV & WSYR and Post-Standard and Herald-Jownal, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen W. Brennan said he’d heard nothing to change his mind. In his first dismissal of the suit in 1955, Judge Brennan said: “It seems to me the plaintiff is not in direct competition with the 2 newspapers, and it seems apparent that the dissemination of news by a newspaper differs essentially from the news broadcasts of a radio station. Likewise, newspaper advertising differs from the advertising matters broadcast from a radio station.” Add FTC consent orders: Concord Distributing Co., Cleveland, and Prestige Records Inc., Bergenfield, N.J., have signed agreements with FTC forbidding them to distribute payola to anybody for broadcasting their records. Unusual pre-hearing conference in the Miami Ch. 10 ex parte case has been ordered for 2 p.m. Dec. 12 by the Court of Appeals in Washington. Attorneys aren’t sure what the Court has in mind — except the general idea of discussing issues and the schedule for filing of briefs. New Color Camera Shown: Developmental 2-tube color camera which could be made at relatively low cost (Vol. 16:46 p8) was demonstrated last week to representatives of networks, stations, manufacturers & others. Consensus of observers was that it shows great promise, probably can be made to work well, needs more development. The new live camera is the brainchild of Iowa State U. Prof. William Hughes, inveterate & highly respected developer of simplified color-film cameras, who next month takes over as head of Okla. State U. engineering dept. That there is interest in his system was shown by the fact that a large number of industry engineers — including representatives of the 3 networks, RCA, Telechrome & others — made the trek to Ames, la. in order to see the demonstration. His camera uses 2 image orthicon tubes, as opposed to 3 used by current color cameras. One tube is used to pick up the luminance (black & white) component of the color picture, while the other sequentially (by use of revolving filters) picks up red & blue components. By a subtractive process (subtracting red plus blue from the luminance component), the 3rd primary color — green — is constructed. Hughes’s color camera functions at quite low light levels — 30 to 50 foot-candles — and lends itself to a conversion kit to transform standard b&w cameras to color for about $10,000. * * « Complete low-cost TV station packages are now being offered by Electron Corp., the Dallas-based electronics subsidiary of Ling-Temco Corp. Using Ling and Altec equipment, the company says it can supply a complete lowpower vhf or uhf station for as low as $30,000, from engineering services to cameras, transmitter & antenna. The eompany’s first such installation was KRET-TV (Ch. 23 educational — now on air) Richardson, Texas. Electron Corp. itself holds CPs for KCDA (Ch. 3) Douglas, Ariz., now under construction, and KGIN-'TV (Ch. 11) Grand Island, Neb. (The latter’s transfer to KOLN-TV Lincoln, Neb. pends FCC approval.) Electron has 8 other contracts to supply low-power stations: CP-holders KRNM-TV (Ch. 10) Roswell, and KFUR-TV (Ch. 11) Santa Fe, N.M.; KEFS-TV (Ch. 22) Fort Smith, Ark.; Prairie States Bcstg. (Ch. 34) Salina, Kan.; Saunders Bcstg. Co. (Ch. 13) Flagstaff, Ariz.; Nogales, Ariz. (Ch. 2); and applicants for Gallup, N.M., (Ch. 3) and Lamar, Colo. (Ch. 12). Transmitters offered by Electron: 100-watt uhf, 120-watt high-band vhf, 250-watt low-band vhf. * * « Automatic logging equipment for radio stations will represent a $10-to-15 million market for broadcast-equipment manufacturers, NAB engineering mgr. A. Prose Walker forecast recently at a Collins Radio broadcast sales meeting in Cedar Rapids, la. Walker predicted that NAB’s proposal for use of automatic logging equipment will be approved by FCC. Television Factbook, published semi-annually by Television Digest, released its new rate card (No. 5) last week, Dec. 5. The new rates are effective now for the forthcoming 1961 Spring-Summer edition of Television Factbook No. 32, which is scheduled for release April 15. All contract advertisers in the 1960 Fall-Winter edition will have rate protection under rate card No. 4 for the upcoming Spring-Summer Factbook. Copies of rate card No. 5 may be secured by writing our Business Office, Box 700, Radnor, Pa.