Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

I I get its system installed in as many homes as possible by next April. When the city council approved the financial terms offered the Dodgers, this insured the club's move to Los Angeles next year. If the city franchises are granted, the next step will be to negotiate a contract with Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. for installation of cables to carry the toll tv programs from points of origin to the homes of subscribers. The same situation applies in Oceanside, Calif., where Tele Movie's closed-circuit tv franchise became official Thursday, the end of the 60-day period following favorable action by the Los Angeles suburb. Harrison W. Hertzberg, attorney who has represented Tele Movie in its applications for closedcircuit toll tv franchises in some 50 communities throughout Southern California and elsewhere, including Milwaukee, said the company hopes to get into operation as quickly as possible but that the first step will, of necessity, be a contract with the telephone company. Tele Movie plans to install Telemeter coinbox decoders in the homes of subscribers in Oceanside and to make feature motion pictures the backbone of its program service. GAC-TV Executives Realigned Executive appointments for GAC-TV Inc., New York talent management firm handling artists for various major network programs, have been announced by L. W. Kanaga, president of the parent firm, General Artists Corp. Milton W. Krasny, who continues as vice president of General Artists Corp., becomes president of GAC-TV. Harry Anger, with the parent firm in various capacities, becomes GAC-TV vice president and general manaeer. Thomas G. Rockwell, who has been president of GACTV, recently became board chairman of the parent firm. TNT 9-Month Gross: $2.5 Million Theatre Network Television Inc. grossed $2,471,215 during the nine months ended Sept. 30, it has been announced by Nathan L. Halpern, TNT president. The company provided closed-circuit television services during the period to such companies as General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., General Electric Co., International Business Machines, NBC, AT&T and Westinghouse Bcstg. Co. Audio Devices Honors Toscanini Audio Devices Inc., New York, last week honored Walter Toscanini for "outstanding work ... in preserving and helping prepare for release recordings of the NBC Symphony concerts conducted by his father, the late Maestro Arturo Toscanini." Mr. Toscanini was presented with the 100,000th reel of new "low-print-through" master magnetic tape during a reception in his honor arranged by Audio Devices. The cape, made by Audio Devices, is being used by Mr. Toscanini and his associates in the course of their editing of the Toscanini recordings. LIVING SOUND captured at last in TV spot news on sou n pen APT 16mm MAGNA-STRIPE RAW STOCK You can now get Soundcraft Magna-Stripe (film with pre-applied magnetic sound track) in raw stock form! The availability of Magna-Stripe Raw Stock, and equipment for its use — now enables you easily to convert from optical to magnetic sound track— to achieve living sound for your TV spot news films! Only Soundcraft's Magna-Stripe provides *0scar-winning oxide formulation! Because optical developing processes cannot affect sound already recorded on Magna-Stripe, you can develop your films for maximum optical clarity. All the advantages of tape recording are yours with Magna-Stripe! First adopted in CBS-TV NewscastsMagna-Stripe has won viewer and critic plaudits for "live" sound quality in spot news broadcasts. To learn how easily you can convert to Magna-Stripe Raw Stock ...write Soundcraft today! *1953 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Award reeves SOUNDCRAFT corpo RATION 10 E. 52nd St., New York 22, N. Y. • West Coast: 338 N. La Brea, L. A. 36, California WORLD'S LEADING MANUFACTURER OF RECORDING FILMS Broadcasting