Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

TRADE ASSNS. continued MEMBERS of NARTB's Engineering Advisory Committee (I to r): seated, William B. Honeycutt, KRLD-AM-TV Dallas; Frank Marx, ABC; Jay W. Wright, KSL-AM-TV Salt Lake City (chairman); A. Prose Walker, NARTB engineering department manager, and Lester Learned, MBS. Standing: Andrew L. Hammerschmidt, NBC; Ross H. Beville, WWDC-AM-FM Washington; Ralph N. Harmon, Westinghouse stations; James D. Parker, CBS; Carlton G. Nopper, WMAR-TV Baltimore; John Shay, WTVJ (TV) Miami, and Philip Hedrick, WSJS-AM-TV Winston-Salem, N. C. FM Association Formed In Southern California A decision to incorporate a new broadcasters association, the FM Broadcasters of Southern California, as a non-profit corporation was reached last week at a meeting of seven representatives of fm stations in that area. The seven incorporators of the new association included Jack Kiefer, KMLA (FM) Los Angeles; A. A. Crawford, KCBH (FM) Beverly Hills; E. A. Schwartz, KBMS (FM) Glendale; M. D. Buchen, KGLA (FM) Los Angeles; Phil Brastoff, KFMU (FM) Glendale; Harry Maizlish, KRHM (FM) Los Angeles, and Saul Levine, who holds permits for KCBA (FM) Beverly Hills and KBCA (FM) San Francisco. Mr. Kiefer, chairman of a committee named Oct. 25 at a luncheon meeting of 31 fm broadcasters to consider formation of the association [Trade Assns., Nov. 4], was elected permanent chairman of the group. Mr. Levine, an attorney, will draw up the incorporation papers of the new organization. Two other members of the original committee, who were unable to attend last week's meeting, were Mason Ingram, KFSD-FM San Diego, and Bill Taylor, KWIZ-FM Santa Ana. The fm committee also approved in principle a proposal that each member station of the new association contribute 10 spots a day to promote the sale of TeleVerters, a device which, when attached to a tv receiver, permits the reception of fm programming through the tv set's speaker. In exchange for these announcements, the association (not the individual stations) is to receive $1 for each TeleVerter sold in Southern California from Scope Distributors Inc., which handles distribution of the device in that territory. The unit retails for $19.95. World Access Right Asserted By RTNDA in Convention Move The Radio Television News Directors Assn. called on public officials to recognize "the inherent right of American newsmen to obtain news anywhere in the world" at closing sessions of its Miami, Fla., convention [Trade Assns., Nov. 12]. Newsmen referred specifically to the State Dept. ban on travel in Red China, a New York City council prohibition of broadcasts of its sessions and U. S. government classification of material "which has no relation to military security." The resolution asked a chance for broadcasters to demonstrate techniques of broadcast courtroom coverage before the American Bar Assn. House of Delegates. Other resolutions supported free access to 1960 Olympic games in Rome, deplored use of news style in radio-tv commercials, appealed to the International Assn. of Fire Chiefs to abandon the idea of asking the FCC to require a 15-minute delay in broadcasting disaster news and expressed gratitude to outgoing RTNDA President Ted Koop of CBS, Washington, and to those who arranged the Miami meeting. NARTB Unit Seeks Data On New CSSB System Compatible single side band broadcasting for am stations holds so much promise that NARTB's Engineering Advisory Committee last week asked all radio stations experimenting with this new system to forward their findings to NARTB's engineering department. The engineering committee met last Thursday in an all-day session in Washington, under the chairmanship of Jay W. Wright, KSL-AM-TV Salt Lake City. The next meeting of the advisory group is Jan. 10, also in Washington. Compatible single side band broadcasting is a new development which holds promise of higher fidelity in standard broadcasting, plus reduction of fading and interference caused by co-channel and adjacent channel signals. It also reportedly has a potential of doubling the am band. In CSSB transmission, a standard broadcast station transmits only the lower side of the standard transmission. The upper side is filtered out. This broadcast can be received by regular radio receivers, without modification, simply by detuning from the center of the carrier frequency by 1.5 kc to 2 kc. The system was developed by Kahn Research Labs., Freeport, L. I. CSSB tests were conducted earlier this year by WMGM New York [Manufacturing, March 25]. They now are underway on WABC New York and are planned by WSM Nashville, Tenn. The engineering committee also appointed a subcommittee to prepare a questionnaire to be sent to all radio stations regarding program line service furnished by common carriers. This was at the request of NARTB's Radio Transmission Tariffs Committee. Ralph N. Harmon, Westinghouse stations, was named chairman. A resolution was passed acknowledging the usefulness of ty boosters, satellites, repeaters, etc., but declaring that these should be regulated by the FCC because of their possible "serious" interference to tv viewers. A joint industry-government committee was suggested to look into the question of interference to radio reception from overhead power lines. NARTB Film Unit Members Named, Meeting Scheduled for Dec. 5 NARTB's 1957-58 film committee will meet in Washington Dec. 5, according to President Harold E. Fellows who also announced appointments to the new committee. The group will look into current problems in the tv film field and receive a report on the final draft of this year's NARTB film manual. Committee chairman is Harold P. See, general manager of KRON-TV San Francisco. Members are Kenneth Tredwell Jr., vice president and managing director, WBTV (TV) Charlotte, N. C; Joseph L. Floyd, president, KELO-TV Sioux Falls, S. D.; Frederick S. Houwink, general manager, WMAL-TV Washington; Glenn C. Jackson, managing director, WAGA-TV Atlanta; Lee Ruwitch, executive vice president and general manager, WTVJ (TV) Miami, Fla., and Miss Lynn Trammell, film program manager, WBAP-TV Fort Worth, Tex. RAB Executive Post to Hornsby Len Hornsby, general manager of WVDA Boston, last week was appointed to the staff of the Radio Advertising Bureau as grocery ^^^■■■■■■■1 products sales mana^pPMHHQ£{k ger. effective Dec. 9. In this post, he will m Wm head a group of Mb ;v f RAB national ac ■■Bf^ count executives who will sell the concept of radio advertising to the food industry. Mr. Hornsby has been with WVDA since 1953 and earlier had been with MR. HORNSBY WNAC Boston and in the advertising agency business for himself in that city. Page 74 • November 18, 1957 Broadcasting