Broadcasting (July - Dec 1938)

License for Television John Patt Honored Granted Zenith by FCC ZENITH RADIO Corp., Chicago, last month was authorized by the FCC to install an experimental television station to operate in the u 1 1 r a h i g h frequencies (42,000 to 56,000 and 60,000 to 86,000 kc.) with 1,000 watts power unlimited time. Holding the applicant legally, financially and technically qualified to construct the station, the Commission said Zenith has a program of research and experimentation "which indicates reasonable promise of substantial contribution to development of the television broadcast art." In discussing the desirability of operation of a transmitting station by a receiving set manufacturer, the Commission said it found that the television transmitter and receiver are the two "most intimately related parts of the terminal apparatus in a radio transmission, and that the receiver must have sufficient signal at all times to maintain the operating relation. "It is not believed that it will be an easy and certain possibility to perfect the design for a radio television receiver except under actual field conditions and tests to ascertain the effect of noise and other disturbances upon the propagating medium on the wide band frequencies." Toscanini to Tour ARTURO TOSCANINI will broadcast his first concert of the NBC Symphony Orchestra's second season on Oct. 15. During the year Toscanini will conduct at least 12 broadcasts beside taking the orchestra on tour. KfrT€ 250 WATTS 1420 KC JOHN F. PATT, vice-president and general manager of WGAR, on July 21 was elected president of the Cleveland Advertising Club, the first time a radio executive has attained that position in the 37 years of the club's history. Mr. Patt has been a member of the club since 19 3 1 and j has served as entertainJ^^H .. . J ment committee, ivir. i'att He was elected a trustee in 1936. He directed the presentation of the Ad Club's annual permormance last year and won the commendation of the organization for his work. Television Allocations Are Argued Before FCC THE future "birth" of television as a public service was discussed before the FCC in an oral argument July 25 on the allocation to services of the ultra-high frequencies between 60,000 kc. and 300,000 kc, slated to become effective next October. Frank W. Wozencraft, general solicitor for RCA, explained to the Commission that the proposed large allocations to television in the ultra-high spectrum were necessary not only for its development into a public service on a nationwide basis but to establish competition. Raymond N. Beebe, counsel for the International Business Machines Corp., which is seeking ether space for the development of radiotypewriters, contended assignment of 80 % of the nongovernment ultra-high spectrum to television was not justified because television had not proved it was ready for the public. He argued a large allocation to television would block valuable experimentation and operations of essential existing radio services, including the safety uses for shipping and aviation and the development of radiotelegraphy. LICHTIG & ENGLANDER, agent for motion picture artists in Hollywood, has opened a radio department to represent its movie and radio list and to produce programs. Sam Kerner, formerly with CBS and producer of the Olson & Johnson and Richfield programs, is in charge. Its first production will be a radio adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves. WCBS SEBRS n ME R RSSOCIRTED WITH THE ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD S T H T E t.No.s JOURNAL ILLINOIS 2nd MARKET RADIO AND SCHOOLS MORE THAN 75 Northwestern and Chicago University students of broadcasting attended a one-day radio "short course" in the WBBM-CBS Chicago studios July 27. The students are members of the radio classes conducted by Al Crews and Paul Reed of the Northwestern School of Speech, and the classes conducted by Parker Wheatley of the University Broadcasting Council. A 5% hour program, prepared by Mrs. Lavinia S. Schwartz, WBBM educational director, included talks by Henry Klein, radio director of BBDO ; Frank B. Falknor, CBS western division chief engineer ; Stan Thompson, WBBM assistant program director ; Paul Dowty, WBBM production department ; and Urban Johnson, chief of the WBBM sound effects department. FINAL summer session of the University Town Meeting, conducted Friday evenings over NBC-Blue by George V. Denny Jr. as moderator, will be carried from the University of California campus Aug. 5. Previous summer "meetings" were heard from Harvard, the Chautauqua Institution. Northwestern and Denver Universities. DR. JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL. director of education of NBC and former president of Tale, has accepted membership on the newly organized Council on International Publications headed by President Nicholas Murray Butler and Dr. James T. Shotwell, professor of international relations, of Columbia University. SYRACUSE University's summer course in radio broadcasting and continuity writing began a series of fi°ld trips recently with a visit to WSYR. Studios, however, were not entirely npw to the groun of teachers and students taking the short course, for Prof. Kenneth G. Bartlett. director of the university's radio activities, holds bis daily classes in the university's own new $5,000 studios. DEEMS TAYLOR. CBS music cmisultant. addressed Npw York Univprsity's Radio Workshnn July 21 on "The SWio'is Mi'sionl Program". On .Tnlv 26. Paul Whiteman spoke on "The Radio Orchestra". FIFTEENTH anniversary of the first religious broadcast was celebrated in New York Mav 23 at a dinner attended by church leaders, includ'"** Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes. Dr. Diniel A. Polinsr. and Dr. Ralnh W. Soekman, who laudpd NBC for its work in promoting rplisrious features. Soeeches at the pvpnt have been published under the title. The Church in the Sky. bv the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. JACK R. POPPELE, chief engineer of WOR, Newark, was princinal speaker July 26 at New York University's Radio Workshop, discussing the origin and assignment of call letters, allocations, various classes of radio service and coverage. FTC Stipulations THE Federal Trade Commission has issued a complaint against Devoe & Raynolds Co., New York (paint) for alleged unfair claims about its paint. Stipulations have been signed with the FTC by Standard Brands, New York, for Fleischmann's yeast; First National Television, Kansas City, for television courses; Philco Radio & Television Corp., Philadelphia, and Zenith Radio Corp., Chicago, for price of radio sets. SEVEN EDUCATIONAL CPs ARE SOUGHT SEVEN applications for construction permits for noncommercial educational broadcasting stations have been received by the FCC since late January when this new class of high-frequency stations was established. Of the seven applications, one has been granted, two were pending and four had been returned for technical corrections as of July 28. WBOE, to be operated by the City Board of Education of Cleveland, was granted a construction permit March 30 for operation on 41,500 kc. with 500 watts power, unlimited time. The Cleveland board of education is now seeking a site for the transmitter, but definite plans for construction of the new station have not yet been announced. Applications were received July 15 from the Board of Education of the City of New York for operation on 41,100 kc, 500 watts unlimited, and The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, at present operating WMBI, for 41,300 kc, 100 watts unlimited. Applications have been returned to the Minnesota Economic Foundation, Minneapolis, University of Tampa, University of Illinois and Florida Southern College, Lakeland, for revisions. The FCC has allocated 25 channels in the ultra-high frequency band between 41,000 and 42,000 kc. for assignment to noncommercial educational stations. Power of the stations will range from 100 to 1,000 watts, and they will give purely local service. It is estimated by the FCC that as many as 1,500 stations of this type could be accommodated on the 25 channels. ScriptWriters' Guild AMERICAN Script-Writers Guild Inc., has been formed in New York, with offices at 303 Lexington Ave. According to Michael Young, vice-president, the Guild was organized to protect its members' ideas, and to protect agencies and broadcasters from suits by "unscrupulous individuals". O ffi c e r s are: President, Mrs. Mary Derieux, formerly fiction editor of Delineator; treasurer, M. H. Avram, formerly of the faculty of New York University ; executive vice-president, Michael Young, president of Radio Adv. Corp. of America ; vicepresident, Irma Hopper, composer and writer; director, Donald Morris-Jones, formerly editor of Green Book Magazine and vice-president of Andrew Cone Adv. Agency; director, Frank C. Reilly, president of Frank C. Reilly Electrical Adv. Co.; secretary, Harold Greenwald, attorney. K'DYL Rohe aMost ^Popular Station SALT LAKE CITY National Representative JOHN BLAIR & CO. 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