Broadcasters’ news bulletin (June-Dec 1931)

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August 1, 1931 RCA TELEVISION EQUIPMENT SFECIPIEE The filing of an application this week by the Rines Hotel Company, Portland Maine, owners and operators of station WCSH, requesting authority to erect a new experimental television station indicated that the proposed equipment would he manufactured hy RCA-Victor Company and include the results of the experiments which have been conducted by that organization at its Camden, N. J. laboratory for the past several months. According to the application filed with the Radio Supervisor at Boston by William L. Foss, chief engineer of the company, the proposed equipment will cost approximately $200,000 and it is declared the purpose of the application is "to further the art of television and establish a service in northern New England that does not now exist." The Ultra-high frequencies requested are 43,000 to 46,000 kc; 48,500 to 50,300 kc; and 60,000 to 80,000 kc. The power sought would range from 500 to 6,000 watts. It is planned to operate the station four hours daily. The appli¬ cation further brings out that images of vastly improved definition and quality are possible with the new RCA apparatus. The recognized standard of television transmission today constitutes pictures of 60 lines with 20 frames per second. The applicant claims this new equipment is capable of transmitting pictures 60, 120 and 240 lines, with 18, 22, 28 and 30 exposures a second. If pictures of 240 lines and 30 exposures a second can be achieved a long stride toward practical television will have been taken. The present applica¬ tion is the first of three to be filed by the applicant for use in New England. CHICAGO STATIONS PROTEST LICENSES The issuances of temporary licenses by the Commission to stations WENR, WGN and WLS of Chicago was protested this week, with the filing of appeals by the stations involved in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, The Comm ission has issued temporary licenses to the three stations, pending action on the high power hearings in which applications of other stations requesting the facilities of these stations were heard. The constitutionality and the authority of the Commission to issue tempor¬ ary licenses without hearing and prior notice, is questioned in each appeal. The insertion of a temporary clause in a license issued by the Commission, it is further argued, violates the requirements of the Fifth Amendment of the Consti¬ tution and is a deprivation of "liberty and property without due process of law.