Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan - Mar 1951)

SALES Shipments Top 7 Million In 1950— RT MA SALES of TV receivers by manufacturers to dealers in 36 states and the District of Columbia totaled 7,068,000 units in 1950, more than double 1949 sales, according to Radio-Television Mfrs. Assn. [Broadcasting • Telecasting, Feb. 26]. This compares to RTMA's estimate of 7,463,800 TV sets produced by member and non-member factories in 1950, the s,atc difference resting in normal distribution delays. Tabulation of sales to dealers by counties for December and the year follows: State and Sets Shipped County Dec. 1950 ALABAMA Jefferson ARIZONA Maricopa CALIFORNIA Alameda Contra Costa Los Angeles 12,568 Orange 907 Sacramento 468 San Bernardino 721 San Diego 3,699 2,666 1,999 4,523 959 San Francisco San Joaquin San Mateo Santa Clara Solano CONNECTICUT Fairfield . . : Hartford New Haven New London DELAWARE New Castle DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. FLORIDA Dade Duval Hi'lsborough Pinellas GEORGIA DeKalb Fulton ILLINOIS Cook 37,422 6,856 622 981 2,036 609 4,305 4,665 9,547 611 2,171 3,337 3,678 1,157 446 7 255 3,943 Fulton Knox Madison McLean .... Peoria Rock Island St. Clair . . Tazewell . INDIANA Delaware Lake Madison Marion IOWA C'inton Polk Pottawattamie Scott KANSAS Wyandotte KENTUCKY Campbell Jefferson Kenton . . . LOUISIANA Orleans MARYLAND Baltimore City Baltimore County Montgomery .... Prince Georges . . MASSACHUSETTS Berkshire Bristol Essex Hampden Middlesex Norfolk Plymouth Suffolk Worcester MICHIGAN Calhoun Genesee Ingham Jackson Kalamazoo Kent Macomb Muskegon Oakland Saginaw 142 349 1,448 38 138 1,748 1,145 46 404 3,742 1,552 8,779 752 2,394 341 1,885 1,297 41 4,569 893 2,211 7,761 —192 433 210 1,624 3,151 6,390 3,416 6,747 2,392 1,743 3,676 6,429 1,137 1,369 1,295 608 2,342 3,359 1,283 3 1,995 543 916 Washtenaw Wayne 18,430 MINNESOTA Hennepin 7,755 Ramsey 2,127 Page 58 • March 5, 1951 23,487 8,823 47,931 8,455 430,394 19,810 3,215 14,835 41,339 55,274 4,176 1 1 ,670 16,755 4,379 39,129 31,988 52,925 2,411 23,479 95,756 23,737 10,777 1,783 35 6,385 54,422 473,727 661 1,656 10,206 419 1,740 8,782 10,752 296 2,889 30,376 7,649 57,962 2 194 11,139 3,435 9,459 10,856 5,667 38,586 12,304 33,214 87,824 32,908 8,954 2,303 8,109 31,885 52,681 8,932 77,167 26,019 11,584 146,894 33,811 5,086 9,350 9,158 3,644 10,657 21,862 8,948 3,366 25,975 2,939 7,046 244,129 55,043 30,221 Dec. 340 2,252 —52 State and County MISSOURI Buchanan Jackson Madison St. Louis 12,610 NEBRASKA Douglas 3,450 Lancaster 518 NEW JERSEY Atlantic 709 Bergen 2,428 Camden 1,300 Essex 5,284 Hudson 2,230 Mercer 2,418 Middlesex Monmouth Morris Passaic Union 1,235 1,114 499 2,181 1,899 NEW MEXICO Bernalillo 668 NEW YORK Albany 2,288 Bronx 2,305 Broome 1,659 Chautauqua 1,419 Erie 14,569 Kings 10,172 Monroe 4,050 Nassau 4,700 New York 15,796 Niagara Onondaga . Oneida Orange Queens Rensselaer . Richmond . . Schenectady Westchester 1,877 4,886 1,210 619 9,838 1,259 654 1 910 4,405 442 186 622 790 645 1,256 1,551 330 OHIO Butler 908 Clark 1,622 Cuyahoga 16,110 Franklin 5,043 Hami'ton 6,129 Lucas 5,562 Montgomery 2,445 NORTH CAROLINA Alamance Cabarrus Durham Forsyth Gas'on Guilford Mecklenburg . . . . Rowan Scioto Summit 462 3,990 City 105 1,798 1,801 OKLAHOMA Mus'-ogee Oklahoma Tu!sa . . . OREGON Marion Mulmomah PENNSYLVANIA Allegheny 23,574 Berks 2,861 Beaver 3,022 Blair 1,800 Cambria 2.165 Dauphin 1,393 Delaware 1.991 Erie 2,870 Fayette 1,644 Lackawanna 594 Lancaster 2.122 Lebanon 1,293 lehigh 2,807 Montgomery 2,382 Northampton 2,214 Philadelphia 14,796 Washington 2.084 Westmoreland 4,187 York 5,377 RHODE ISLAND Providence .... SOUTH CAROLINA York 6,593 248 TENNESSEE Davidson Shelby . . TEXAS Bexar . . . Dallas Galveston Harris . . Tarrant . . UTAH Salt Lake Weber . . 1,361 1,451 861 2,093 306 4,279 441 2,837 17 1950 2,583 36,997 1,291 126,912 26,868 3,095 9,519 34,673 21,000 106,166 56,065 21,117 21,525 17,625 9,412 32,463 33,838 4,896 21,400 45,644 10,493 5,933 106.934 245,553 62,012 53,549 290,964 15,417 45,119 20.561 7,620 113,975 18.836 11,322 12,789 41,630 1,953 1,900 1,195 2,850 3,024 5,362 8,940 1,525 13.794 10,195 171,228 64.282 99,693 41,392 57,176 1,991 37,051 703 13,995 10,986 141.165 23.390 13 074 4,364 13.774 9 990 25 969 22,283 9,001 1,974 17,961 5,624 16,584 26,226 12,025 247,834 11,107 18,823 14,753 60,426 1,258 14,053 33,042 22,961 44,177 1,639 38,464 22,180 20,758 437 State and Sets County Dec. VIRGINIA Arlington 449 Henrico 1,035 Norfo'k 1,633 Pittsylvania 232 Warwick 263 WASHINGTON Clarke 632 King 6,368 Pierce 1,471 WEST VIRGINIA Cabeil 1,059 Kanawha 428 WISCONSIN Milwaukee 7,565 Sub-Total 529,296 AREAS UNLISTED 161,704 GRAND TOTAL 691,000 Shipped 1950 10,103 19,266 25,522 523 4,257 966 24,309 6,410 9,143 3,369 83,111 6,061,222 1 ,006,778 7,068,000 NBC Gross (Continued from page 30) nual average profit of 5.6% after taxes. The year 1950 showed major increases in sales of video and radio receivers, records and record players, electron tubes and engineering products, the report stated, adding: "Television sales surpassed the record year of 1949 and, despite plant expansion and vastly increased production, it was impossible fully to meet the public demand for receiving sets." Because of shortages and government controls on materials at the yearend, "an intensified program was initiated to develop substitutes to conserve these scarce materials and to maintain production under current conditions." Preparing to meet government requirements for "research, development and manufacture of vital electronic equipment for the nation's defense program, a mobilization planning department was established almost immediately after President Truman declared a state of national emergency in December." Color TV Comment Major advances in color television, industrial television, radioelectronics and acoustics during the year were reported by RCA Labs. Commenting on color TV, the report said: Notwithstanding the adoption on Oct. 10 by the FCC of incompatible color television standards, RCA has continued the development of its compatible, all-electronic, high-definition system. RCA believes that the public interest can only be served by the broadcast of compatible color signals — those which can be received, as black-and-white pictures, on the nearly 12 million black-and-white receivers now in the hands of the public without any modification of those receivers. Ziv Signs Peach SIGNING of Kenneth Peach to direct photography in the production of several series of TV films by Ziv Television Productions at its Hollywood studios was announced last week. Mr. Peach, who signed a long-term contract, has been associated with Jerry Fairbanks Productions. Obviously giddy with the success of a performance by Jerry Lester, NBC-TV comedian, are (I to r) Mr. Lester, John T. Murphy, director of television operations for Crosley Broadcasting Corp., and Hal Friedman, producer of Mr. Lester's starring program, Broadway Open House. Mr. Lester made appearance at TV set exhibition in Cincinnati, sponsored by WLWT (TV). SET EXHIBIT Draws Large Attendance AN ESTIMATED 145,000 persons attended exhibitions of TV sets held in Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, by Crosley Broadcasting Corp. last month. WLWD (TV) Dayton sponsored the first display Feb. 2 and 3 at which 15 distributors showed their complete lines of TV sets. The Cincinnati exhibition was held Feb. 9-11 under sponsorship of WLWT (TV) Cincinnati, and that in Columbus Feb. 18-20 under the aegis of WLWC (TV) Columbus. Talent from all the stations performed at the set displays, and at Cincinnati Jerry Lester, NBC comedian, and his troupe made two personal appearances. The promotion cost a total of $90,000, Crosley said. KTTV Names Mullen FRANK E. MULLEN, television consultant and board chairman of Jerry Fairbanks Inc., has been retained as management consultant of KTTV (TV) Hollywood, according to Norman Chandler, president, Los Angeles Times, which owns and operates the station. Mr. Mullen will assist in formulation of future plans for KTTV, it was said. He has been acting as consultant to WPIX (TV) New York News station since 1949. Mr. Mullen was formerly NBC executive vice president and was at one time in charge of TV operations. Mr. Mullen Telecasting BROADCASTING 7