Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1956)

CBS FOR CENTRAL OHIO Ask John Blair The number one Pulse station covering 1,573,820 people with 2 Billion Dollars to spend. radio COLUMBUS, OHIO TRADE ASSNS. IRE CONVENTION EXPECTING 45,000 j Two miles of exhibits require 1,000,000 watts substation. Four-day program beginning today calls for 55 technical sessions. John V. L. Hogan to receive top IRE award. A RECORD turnout of more than 45,000 electronic scientists and engineers will gather from virtually every country on earth for the fourday Radio Engineering Show and Institute of Radio Engineers' annual convention which opens today (Monday) in New York. IRE officials said that it will be the largest assembly of engineering people ever amassed for a single event. Radio, television, color tv, and color-tv tape recording developments figure prominently among the 55 technical sessions scheduled to cover all the latest advances in 24 fields of electronics. Headquarters are the Kingsbridge Armory and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Sessions will be held at both places and also at the Belmont Plaza Hotel. The Radio Engineering Show, held annually in conjunction with the IRE convention, will be housed at the Armory and will consist of almost two miles of exhibits in some 715 booths. Officials said the exhibitors account for about 80% of the nation's productive output in electronics, and the value of equipment being shown was placed "in the millions of dollars." A million-Watt electrical substation has been installed at the armory to power the equipment being demonstrated — much of which will be shown for the first time. John V. L. Hogan, pioneer engineer and widely known in the broadcasting field, will receive the IRE's highest award, the Medal of Honor, and make the principal address at the annual banquet Wednesday evening at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mr. Hogan, one of IRE's three founders, was chosen for the top award in recognition of his long sequence of inventions in the communications art, notably facsimile. Four other principal awards will be presented at the dinner by IRE President Arthur V. Loughren, vice president of Hazeltine Corp. The institute's annual cocktail party gettogether is scheduled this evening (Monday), also at the Waldorf. The convention will open this morning with a business meeting at which John T. Henderson, director of the IRE Canadian region and principal research officer of the National Research Council of Canada, will be chief speaker. The technical sessions get under way at 2 p.m. today at the Waldorf, the Belmont Plaza and the Armory. AWRT Convention to Hear Four Broadcast Executives FOUR broadcast industry executives will be among the main speakers at the fifth national convention of American Women in Radio & Television, April 26-29, in Boston, the AWRT said last week. The general theme to be taken up during April 27's general session by speakers and panelists attending the convention will be "Women — The Unexploded Radio and Tv Active Bomb." Scheduled to address the delegates are, Oliver Treyz, president, Television Bureau of Advertising, New York; Norman Knight, executive vice president, Yankee Div., Page 58 • March 19, 1956 Broadcasting Telecasting