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chase of WTVP [TV] Decatur, 111. pending FCC approval). Mr. Wrather in addition to his Muzak holdings is a principal stockholder of Transcontinent Television Corp., which owns WGR-AM-TV Buffalo, WROCTV Rochester, both New York; KFMBAM-FM-TV San Diego. KERO-TV Bakersfield. both California, and 60% of WNEP-TV Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Jack Wrather Organization also owns radio and tv programs, The Lone Ranger, Lassie and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, as well as interests in the oil and gas industries. Jerrold specializes in the design, manufacture and installation of tv distribution systems. It reported net sales and service revenues as of Feb. 28, 1959 at $7,658,371 and net income after taxes of $397,656 (36^ per share). The company's total assets for the same period were listed at $5.8 million. The company owns and operates cable companies in Ukiah, Calif.; Ventnor, N.J.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Pocatello. Idaho; Dubuque, Iowa; Wenatchee, Richland, Walla Walla, all Washington, and Muscle Shoals, Ala. They service about 30,000 subscribers. Last year Jerrold sold its Key West, Fla., cable company to John M. Spottswood and associates. • Technical topics Expansion • Ground has been broken for a new Glendore, Calif., plant for Conrac, manufacturer of Fleetwood tv receivers for the home and video monitors for tv stations and industrial closed circuit tv. With total floor space of 35,000 square feet, the new Conrac building will be 50% larger than the previous one, which was destroyed by fire last summer. It is scheduled for completion May 15. Wide angle optics • Traid Corp., Encino, Calif., has developed a lens with 165° field of view, designed especially for mating with the Photo-Sonics 16mm1B high-speed camera. The Traid 120 is available for applications where up to 1,000 frames per second are desired with wide angle. According to the company, wide-angle optics were hitherto limited in use to cameras with a speed of 200 frames per second or less. Fm hits the road • An fm tuner for automobiles which operates in any car with a 12-volt battery through any regular am car radio and speaker is manufactured by Eric Engineering, Santa Monica, Calif. Although it will operate through any am aerial set at 30 inches, an accessory fm antenna of that length is available. The unit is compact and is claimed to combine high sensitivity with low noise. Price: $79.95. Storage units • Neumade Products Corp., N.Y., manufacturer of standard film storage units now in use in both theatres and tv stations, offers a new line of tv tape storage units for 6-, 8-, 12V2 and 14-inch tape reels. Facilities for library storage, transient editing and "on-the-air" program filing are included. Tables and graphs • Allied Record Mfg. Co., Hollywood, has issued a brochure, "The Latest Technical Data on Professional Master Recording." It contains tables and graphs to show recording data for master discs, both monaural and stereophonic. Copies are available from Allied at 1041 N. Las Palmas Ave., Hollywood 28. Book-size recorder • American Electronics Inc., American Concertone Div., 9449 W. Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, Calif., announces new book-size portable tape recorder weighing under 4 lbs. that operates from its own batteries, 110 v AC or from cigarette lighter receptacle of a car. Transistorized dual speed-half track recorder features VU meter, uses standard tape, reels and batteries. Price: $199.50. UPPER STRATA STRATEGY! Friend of ours who always attends the sessions in the lecture halls, starts on the Fourth Floor with Production Items . . . and works his way down to Components on the First Floor. Says his feet tell him it's easier to come down than to go up! And he never misses a trick this way. Sounds like good engineering logic. Why don't you join him this year . . . and see if it doesn't work for you! Show Manager ON DISPLAY FOR YOU NEW IDEAS in RADIO-ELECTRONICS Year after year, the IRE NATIONAL CONVENTION AND RADIO ENGINEERING SHOW gets bigger! That's because you and your gigantic radio-electronics industry are surging ahead with NEW IDEAS and remarkable speed to make the Space Age the most exciting time in which to live. That's why it takes all 4 floors of New York's great Coliseum to show what your industry is doing. Takes 950 exhibitors... takes over 200 papers... takes over 60,000 of your co-workers to view the impressive sight. If you're not at the IRE CONVENTION AND SHOW this year you'll miss a once-a-year apparel tunity unequalled in your industry to see progress 9) in action. Plan to be at the Coliseum to see... to $ hear about... the NEW IDEAS IN RADIOELECTRONICS, 1960! The IRE NATIONAL CONVENTION Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and The RADIO ENGINEERING SHOW ;» rhf Coliseum, New York City MARCH 21, 22, 23, 24 The Institute of Radio Engineers 1 East 79th St., New York 21, N. Y. BROADCASTING, February 8, 1960 79