Broadcasting (July - Dec 1939)

Television News Notes WESTERN ELECTRIC Co. has announced a new 1 kw. transmitter for I which WE claims "the efficiency of a ! 50-I:w. equipment and the accessibility of a breadboard model." Transmitter, I designed primarily for commercial broadcasting, includes such features as the Doherty high efficiency circuit, j the stabilized feedback principle and I an assembly of all components on a I vertical panel in such a way that no ! part of the circuit is obscured by any , ' other part, features not usually found I j in medium-powered transmitters. Cabinet, of modern design, was concieved by Henry Dreyfuss, industrial stylist. GARRARD SALES Corp., 296 Broadway. New York. American sales rep' resentative of Garrard Engineering & j Mfg. Co. Ltd., Swindon. England, I manufacturers of automatic recordj changing units and record players, has i j published a new 16-page catalog de1 j scribing and illustrating its new line i I of automatic record-changers, motors, j pickups and turntables. I ', I NEW portable lightweight transcripj j tion playback machine is currently being marketed by Charles Michelson Co.. New York, which is used to date by WDGY, WAVJ, WBIG, WJHL, !| WNAX, J. H. McGillvra in Canada, I' American Auto Insurance Co., New I York, and Maxon Inc., New York. The j machine weighs under 20 pounds, operates on 10 watts and contains all ]i standard equipment, according to Mr. J Michelson. The company has also is, sued a new set of its "Speedy-Q" sound I effects. I WIS, Columbia, S. C, recently puri '• chased, in addition to replacement material, new testing equipment for its transmitter, including an RCA 68-B : precision beat frequency oscillator, RCA 69-A distortion and noise meter, and a Crosley facsimile receiver kit, i I along with WE 23-A console type |ij speech input equipment. Ij NBC-Chicago is constructing a record I ] cabinet housing a minimum of three copies each of 1,000 sound effects re! cordings. The new cabinet uses pressed j| steel forms and a frame lock system. It is being designed and constructed by Tom Horan, sound effects supervisor of NBC-Chicago, and Irving Bickler, sounds effects engineer. CANADIAN Broadcasting Corp. nearly lost its $30,000 mobile recording ij unit down a 500-foot precipice in Cape 1 1 Breton National Park, Nova Scotia, ji July 25. The unit was en route to the I park to make sound sequences for the j CBC program Summer Over the Marij times, when the trailer with the equipI ment and Engineers Cliff Spear and Fred Wadsworth, slipped over the edge of the cliff. R. T. Bowman, CBC ' special events chief, driving the car, was able to stop in time so that the trailer was left hanging over the cliff I suspended by its rear axle. The two engineers rescued the records before they climbed out. With the help of I I nearby farmers the trailer after several hours was put back on the road. U/kat Station broadcasts the strongest signal to I the Great Smoky Mountains Na tl tional Park which drew 694,634 ] visitors from every state and many » foreign countries during 1938 ? j: Why III II A Y 1010 KC It's II n U A CBS 5000 W Day 1000 W Night KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE I Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. I Representative THE BRANHAM CO. Television and Movies IT WILL be several years before television blankets the country, and in the meantime the film industry is making provisions to meet the situation. So stated George W. Weeks, vice-president of Monogram Productions, in Hollywood in mid-July. He declared that the film industry will be able to overcome any obstacles arising from television and that the two mediums will be able to work in closer harmony than pictures and radio. "The film industry has no immediate worry or concern," he said. Unrest among exhibitors because of television will gradually disappear when the new "see-hear" medium swings into full operation, he said. He predicted a closer working arrangement between television and the theatre, with motion picture house screens being utilized for visualization for the big sponsored programs. Smallness of home screens, in his opinion, will cause people to take their television entertainment in theatres where a larger image can be offered. He also pointed out that television will be forced more or less to use films for broadcasting and that this too will necessitate a closer working arrangement. RCA Unit Described A TECHNICAL description of the television demonstration system employed by RCA in its exhibit building at the New York World's Fair, units of which are to be made available to broadcast stations for local demonstrations on a rental basis [Broadcasting, July 15] is carried in the July RCA Review published by RCA Institutes Technical Press, 75 Varick St., New York. Donald H. Castle of the NBC video facilities section is the author. The same issue carries an article on the application of motion picture film to television by E. W. Engstrom, G. L. Beers and A. V. Bedford, and on an Iconoscope pre-amplifier by Allen A. Barco. * * * KMBC Seeks Television MIDLAND Broadcasting Co., Kansas City, owners and operators of KMBC, applied July 24 to the FCC for a television construction permit. KMBC, through its subsidiary, Midland Television Inc., was a pioneer in developing the modern 441-line electronic system, as well as the outmoded disc-scanning method. Dr. Vladimir Zworykin, who developed the modern Iconoscope, in the early days of broadcasting and television was associated with Arthur B. Church, president of KMBC, in another venture. Mr. Church said that Midland hopes to go on the air this winter with television. Zenith Seeks Site ZENITH Radio Corp., first Chicago firm to be authorized to erect a television station, has been authorized by the FCC to operate a 50watt portable station on 45.25 mc. from Aug. 1 to 30 in order to make a site survey for its station, to be known as W9XZV. NBC Overhauls Studio NBC's August television schedule drops all evening telecasts of live talent, while the studio is overhauled for the winter season and while the staff vacations. Feature films will be broadcast three evenings weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 8:30 p.m., but the chief feature of the August programs will be the outdoor pickups of the mobile unit, just equipped with its second camera, on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoons, 4-5. The normal schedule of evening studio telecasts will be resumed Aug. 29. New GE Tubes BATTERY of four new 1 y p e water-cooled quartz mercury-arc units, containing 12 lamps with a light output equivalent to that of nearly 30,000 watts of incandescent light and at the same time giving off little heat, has been installed by GE engineers in the new General Electric television studios in Schenectady. The new mercury lamp radiates more than 2 1/3 times the light of an incandescent lamp of the same wattage. The 12 1,000-watt lamps used in the GE television studio have a total light output of 780,000 lumens, while the same wattage of incandescent lamps would give off only 330,000 lumens of light. Lehn & Fink Show LEHN & FINK PRODUCTS Corp., New York, on July 27 presented a ten minute television broadcast of "General Germ Gets a Jolt", cartoon film promoting Lysol disinfectant, on the NBC television station W2XBS. Lennen & Mitchell, New York, handles the account. Antennas for Amateurs FOLLOWING its recent move in placing television tubes and parts on sale for amateurs and experimenters who wish to build their own television receivers, RCA has also made three television receiving antennas available to this same group. The antennas are a double di-pole, for use where reflection and distortion are not problems; a double di-pole with reflector, for use where reflections from adjacent buildings might cause double images, and a double "V" wire antenna, for use in suburban areas where signal strength is good and reflections not encountered. KOWH in New Home NEW STUDIOS of KOWH, located on the top floor of the Omaha World-Herald Bldg., were formally dedicated July 23 with State, civic, religious and other notables headed by Gov. Roy L. Cochran participating. The station, recently acquired by purchase by the newspaper, planned dedication programs for the entire week. Among other speakers were Vernon H. (Bing) Smith, general manager, and J. M. Harding, assistant publisher of the newspaper. ASSOCIATED RECORDED PROGRAM SERVICE Quality Programs for Commercial and Sustaining Uses. 25 West 45th Street New York City ^) ne campaign three ways! Progressive concerns do just that when they broadcast in ITALIAN. JEWISH and POLISH over our station. It may seem unconventional, but outstanding so/es results prove it's practicall I! iT:rj 1DD0 UIHTTS WM. PENN BROADCASTING COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising August i, 1939 • Page 63