Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1956)

MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL cording projector with case and features for business, industry, schools, and amateur movie makers. Company also reports improvements in its Soundstripe process of preparing 16mm film for magnetic recording. Improved signal response and higher gain for clearer voice and musical reproduction are claimed. Motorola Inc., Chicago, has installed new intracontinental service policy for automobile radios and will honor all warranty claims for receivers made in U. S. or Canada. Company reports phonograph sales rose 215% in 1955 over previous year, with high fidelity console among top products. General Electric Co., Schenectady, has introduced new high voltage rectifier tube that reportedly will cut tv set manufacturing costs and give longer life because of new filament construction. Ercona Corp., N. Y., is distributor for new lightweight, battery-operated magnetic tape recorder manufactured by Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. of England to reproduce high fidelity sound. E.M.I. Series L-2 weighs IW2 pounds and uses five-inch reels of tape. It is available in three models at 3%-, IV2 and 15inches-per-second speeds. Precision Apparatus Co. has issued catalog No. 23 describing Precision line of test instruments. Catalog is available free from company at 70-31 84th St., Glendale 27, L. I., N. Y. DuMont Television & Electronics Ltd., Montreal, and Canadian Aviation Electronics Ltd., that city, have concluded patent agreement making CAE administrator and licensing agent in Canada for all DuMont patents covering Canadian manufacture and sale of cathode-ray tubes, tv transmitters, electronic products and instruments. CAE continues as exclusive Canadian licensee for manufacture and sale of DuMont tv receivers. Clevite Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, has developed new magnetic recording and playback head capable of handling more than four million cycles a second at tape speed of 20 ft. per second. New tape, company says, will improve techniques of recording tv programs in addition to other technical uses. Brush Electronics, Clevite unit, will distribute new heads. Canadian Independents Seek License Fee Change INDEPENDENT CANADIAN radio and television stations have asked the Canadian government to change the annual transmitter license fee from the present system based on population coverage and power to a straight $100 annually. A brief presented to Transport Minister G. C. Marler pointed out that the present fee system represents unfair discrimination against the non-government broadcasting stations in that it imposes on them an extra tax not paid by any other media. In fact, the brief states, many other media receive substantial assistance in the reduction of costs, rather than having additional taxes imposed. The brief also asks that the transmitter license fee be retained by the Dept. of Transport; currently the license fee goes to support the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The brief was presented to the transport minister by lack Davidson and lim Allard, respectively president and executive vice president of the Canadian Assn. of Radio & Television Broadcasters. Royal Commission Schedules Public Hearings on Radio-Tv PUBLIC HEARINGS of the Royal Commission on Canadian Radio & Television Broadcasting will start in Ottawa, Ont., April 30, commission chairman R. M. Fowler announced. Written briefs will be accepted by the commission until April 15. Hearings have been scheduled for April 30 to give all interested parties adequate time to prepare submissions, the chairman stated. The commission hopes that hearings can be completed by the end of June. First hearings will be submissions of the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and the independent stations represented by the Canadian Assn. of Radio & Television Broadcasters. Both these organizations will be allowed to make supplementary submissions at the end of the public hearings. Fairchild Controls Corp., Electronics Div., Syosset, N. Y., has announced improved model of Freed-Eisemann "Educator" classroom am-fm radio set. Receiver features high power output, two or three times that of ordinary home receivers, for classroom or auditorium listening. Stanley F. Turner, manager of the company's educational products department, will supervise sales. Westinghouse Electric Corp. has new machine capable of packaging 200 receiving tubes a minute, in company's electronic tube plant in Elmira, N. Y. Company says hand operator can package only 375 tubes an hour. General Precision Laboratory Inc., Pleasantville, N. Y., has received orders from Canadian Bcstg. Co., for two more 16mm video recorders, it says, bringing total CBC recorder orders to 10. Other recent video recorder sales by GPL were to U. of Indiana, Bloomington, and educational stations WTTW (TV) Chicago and WOSU-TV Columbus, Ohio. ORRadio Industries Inc., Opelika, Ala., has introduced new 7-inch reel on its Irish Recording Tapes, featuring 32 square inches of indexing area. New reel offers four flat areas for crayon or label markings. Singer Tv Mfg. Co., L. A., has named Dage Television Div., Thompson Products Inc., Michigan City, Ind., for U. S. industrial distribution of projection equipment. Holloway Electronics Corp., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has introduced new antennas designed to eliminate interference in tv reception. Model Expo-I.R.I.S. (infinite rejection interference system) is claimed to eliminate co-channel, adjacent channel interference and ghosts. System, based on concept that interfering signal can be cancelled by opposing signal of equal amplitude but of opposite phase, consists of two antennas, one vertically disposed above other so that interfering signal is cancelled by rotating one of antennas. Raytheon Mfg. Co., Waltham, Mass., reports that for first half of its 1955-56 fiscal year, ending Nov. 30, 1955, it made net profit of $1,368,000 after federal taxes, on sales of $83,170,000. Company's current figures compare to a net profit of $2,396,000 on sales of $93,015,000 reported for corresponding half of 1954-55 fiscal year. Bell & Howell Co., Chicago, announces Model 302 of Filmosound 16mm optical-magnetic re Sylvania Electric Products Inc., N. Y., has issued new version of its "Tv Picture Tube Comparison Chart," to give current Sylvania picture tube information. Chart may be obtained free from Sylvania central advertising distribution department, 1100 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. Germans Produce 3 Million Radio Sets, 350,000 Tv RADIO SET manufacturers in Germany produced about 3 million sets in 1955, with 1.1 million exported to foreign countries. Portable set production was up by 5%, auto radio set production by 40%. Low-price table models were reported to have sold high above previous average, with sale of more expensive models slightly down. Console sales were up 30%. Rapidly increasing tv set sales did not influence radio set sales. In October, tv set manufacturers turned out 45,000 sets (against the 1955 summer low of 17,400). Tv set shipments to dealers were 51,800 in September. Total 1955 output is now estimated at 300,000 to 350,000 tv sets and the estimated 1956 total is 550,000 to 600,000 tv sets. Canadian Production Limited By Volume of U. S. Tv Shows INCREASING AMOUNT of U. S. network and film television programs on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. network tv stations have caused charges that not enough Canadian programs are being developed. A. D. Dunton, chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., said at Montreal that "it is *Sept.-Oct. Pulse -an old Cincinnati Habit: — listening to WCKY; 10 years of 24 hour a day music and news programming has created in Cincinnatians, the habit of tuning to WCKY for The Best in Music The Latest in News *21% of morning audience 22% of afternoon audience 21% of night time audience BUY WCKY Page 110 • January 9, 1956 Broadcasting • Telecasting