Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct - Dec 1952)

. . . AND ALREADY CENTRAL NEW YORK'S MOST POWERFUL TV STATION say "WHEN" Represented Nationally by the Katz Agency CBS • ABC • DUMONT ■•"••ffiKiHi WHEN TELEVISION A MEREDITH STATION county. New Mexico — Estimate gain of 23,000. New York — Registration high; has, quadrupled in some districts. Ohio — All-around gain of 20%. Pennsylvania — 20% in cities; good elsewhere. Rhode Island — 17.2% advance scored. South Carolina — 65,000 more registrants. South Dakota — Close to a 5% boost. Tennessee — Up around 5%. Utah — More than 80% of residents to vote. Washington — Up by 153,000 people. West Virginia — Gain around 10%. Wyoming — 10% increase. Gains have also been reported by NARTB chairmen in Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Virginia. PREPARING ias«--minute details for yesterday's (Sunday) debut of KBTV (TV) Denver [B • T, Sept. 22] are these executives: (! to r) Sain Worsham, production facilities manager; Jerry Lee, commercial manager, and Joseph Herold, station manager. Radio-TV Vote-Getting Lauded (Continued from page 90) promote local voting. Stations are shown how to serve as the voice for vote-getting projects of local merchants. Poll parties, testimonials, whispering voter contest stunt and "Rek-E-Lections" dramatizing great campaigns of the past are suggested. A wrap-up of activity by local stations is planned immediately after election day, according to Mr. Patt, and forms have been included in the final kit. In Mr. Patt's own area, Cleveland, a barrage of radio and TV announcements has brought registration to an all-time high of 775,0C0, representing 87% of the electorate (see story, this issue). NARTB's registration scoreboard will be brought uptodate when results of this week's telegraphic survey are computed. At the moment it stands like this: Arizona — Up more than 15%. Arkansas — Gain from 10 to 15%. California — Vote will be highest in history. Connecticut — Registration up 3V& times in capital. Delaware — Gain of 10,000 voters. Florida — Pick-up of 5% to date; 61,000 new voters. Indiana — 20% boost. Iowa — Looks like a 20% gain in registrations. Kansas — Already 2.9% with big push ahead. Maine — Gain averages 7,000 per county. Maryland — 140,000 more voters on rolls. Minnesota — Urban precincts up 35%. Mississippi — Up about 42,000. Missouri — Up 5%; exceeds political estimates. Montana — 10% gain. Nebraska — 10 to 15% above normal. Nevada— Up 14.8%. New Hampshire — 53% more voters in primary. New Jersey — 3,000 more voters per Stock Purchase OWEN MURPHY, president of Murphy Lillis Productions Inc., New York, TV film production firm, has purchased the stock interest of James M. Lillis and will continue the business under the name of Owen Murphy Productions Inc. NBC-TV Signs WFMJ WFMJ-TV Young^town, Ohio, will be an NBC affiliate when the uhf Channel 73 outlet s-oes on the air early next year, NBC Station Relations Director Sheldon B. Hickox announced last week. Mr. Hickox negotiated the affiliation agreement with Leonard E. Nasman, WFMJ sales manager, who represented William F. Maag, owner and publisher of the Youngstown Vindicator and owner of WFMJ. Mr. Nasman will supervise TV. KBTV (TV) STARTS Second Denver TV Outlet KBTV (TV) Denver, that city's second TV station, was scheduled to begin regular programming yesterday (Sunday) with CBS-TV and ABC-TV programs, and Station Manager Joe Herold reported a series of engineering test programs on the Channel 9 station the past week indicate service will extend a radius of 100 miles. Mr. Herold said KBTV, with an interim power of 12 kw, received reports during the tests of excellent reception at Cheyenne, Wyo., Colorado Springs and across the Continential Divide at Granby, Col., and many other points. This coverage, he said, is attributed to the ideal transmitter location on Lookout Mt., 2,500 ft. above Denver. TV service men report very little adjustment is needed in receivers and antennas to receive the KBTV signal, he declared. Set Ownership Soars Mr. Herold said the Rocky Mountain Electrical League, official industry source of set tabulations, estimated sets in the area at 57,964 on Oct. 1, which the KBTV manager said indicates the Denver market's enthusiasm for TV since KFEL-TV began operation three months ago. He said 100,000 sets are predicted for the area by Jan. 1, 1953. KBTV is licensed to Colorado Television Corp. and will operate with 12 kw to Nov. 30, when it will change to 24 kw ERP. On March 1, 1953, the station will operate with 240 kw visual and 120 kw aural [B*T, Sept. 22]. Financing Report REPORT on financing of large and small business ventures, and which "applies particularly to stations needing funds for new TV equipment," has been prepared by Alexander Eisemann Jr., president of Eisemann Industrial Corp., New York, and copies may be secured by addressing him at 888 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 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