American television directory (1946)

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CONTENTS Foreword . George T. Shupert 5 Beyond Tomorrow — What ? . Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff 9 Sixty Million Jobs and Television. . . Paul Raibourn 10 Television’s Tremendous Promise. H. V .Kaltenborn 11 Is Television Tomorrow’s Radio? . Edgar Kobak 12 FCC Hopes and Expectations for Television . Paul A. Porter 14 Is Today’s Television Here to Stay?. . Wyllis Cooper 15 How Large a Screen? . Dr. Allen B. DuMont 16 How Will Television Handle the News?. . Ted Genock 18 College Sports and Television . Don Spencer 20 Will Television Debut in a Fool’s Paradise? . E. B. Weiss 21 What Will Your Tele-Time Dollar Buy? . Richard Manville 23 Proposed Routes for Relaying Television Programs (Map) . 24 The Bell System’s Plan for Tele-networks . Keith S. McHugh 25 Raytheon’s Microwave Relay System . Laurence K. Marshall 26 Pioneering a Tele-relay Network. .John Ballantyne 27 Stratovision Will Give Wings to Television . William K. Ebel C. E. Nobles Television Needs Normal Development. C. B. Jolliffe Why Advertising Agencies Should Guide Tele-shows . John Hertz, Jr. Progress in Color Television . Peter C. Goldmark PTM — A New Television Transmission System . H. H. Buttner An Engineer Compares Television with Radio . J. R. Poppele Packaged Tele-shows Will Up Quality . William Morris Sports for Millions by Television . Bill Slater Tele-sports Announcers Will Talk Less ..Bill Stern A Lawyer Looks at Television. . Bernard Goodwin The Economics of Television. . . .Leonard F. Cramer An Advertiser Looks at Television C. J. Durban 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 40 42 Uses of Film in Television . John Flory 44 Television Audience Research . Oscar Katz 45 Television and Fashion . Constantin Joffe 46 Television in the Retail Field. . /. A. Hirschmann 47 Proceed With Caution . Norman D. Waters 48 Television Dollars and Sense . Philip Merryman 49 Discussion Programs Will Be Better . George V. Denny, Jr. 51 Television Jobs for Veterans . 54 Television Out West . Klaus Landsberg 56 Televised News for Theater-goers. Alfred B. Burger 57 A Mixed Blessing? . Quincy Howe 57 Top-flight Shows Are Not Accidents . Ed Sobol 59 Basic Fundamentals of Visual Continuity . Hoyland Bettinger 60 History of the American Television Society . Myrtle Ilsley 68 The ATS Awards . J. Raymond Hutchinson 69 Executives of the American Television Society. ... 71 By-laws of the American Television Society . 74 Guessing About Television . Lowell Thomas 76 Members of the American Television Society . 79 Television Stations and Pending Applications . 86 Market Analysis of Television Station Allocations 92 Broadcasting Service in 140 Metropolitan Areas... 94 Television Activities of Advertisers, Advertising Agencies, Producers, Stations and Organizations 96 Careers in Television . Dan D. Halpin 110 Advances in Large Screen Television . Ill Television Vocabulary . 112 Television Progress (Chronology) . 119 So They Say . 123 Televictims . Gregory d’Alessio 125 Bibliography . 129 Films for Television Use . 135 A Movie Cameraman Looks at Television . Irving Browning 140 Facing Television . Bob Hope 141 Publications Reporting Television . 142 Cover . Larry Tisdale Ralph Rockafellow, Editor