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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
n/8/50
TRADE NOTES
TV picture tubes 16 inches and larger constituted 87 percent of sales to television receiver manufacturers in September, the Radio-Television Manufacturers' Association reported last Friday.
Besides the pronounced trend to larger TV screens, September sales to manufacturers showed rectangular tubes amounted to 56 per¬ cent of total tubes sold.
September TV tube sales to set manufacturers amounted to 764,913 units valued at $20,423,353 compared with 767*051 tubes valu¬ ed at $20,335,873 in August.
Custom-built test systems which provide complete facilities for mass-production test and alignment of television receivers are described in a new brochure available to television manufacturers from the Equipment Sales Section of the RCA Tube Department.
Based on equipment and methods now in use in plants of the RCA Victor Division, the RCA custom-built test systems are the re¬ sult of coordinated research by the company's transmitter, receiver, and test equipment engineers. The system is designed to speed up production, reduce manufacturing costs, and assure the accuracy of tests essential to the manufacture of television receivers of high uniform quality.
The Frederic W. Ziv Company, which produces radio and tele¬ vision shows, has appointed Herbert Gordon Vice President in Charge of Production. M. J.Rifkin was named Vice President in Charge of Sales of Ziv Television Programs, Inc., and Joseph L. Moore was named Treasurer of Frederic W.Ziv Company.
The Columbia Broadcasting System has completed contracts with Station WSM-TV, Nashville, Tenn., which now becomes the 6lst affiliate of the C3S-TV Network.
United Pressed Products Co., 415 South Aberdeen St., Chicago, and its officers have been ordered by the FederalTrade Commission to discontinue misrepresenting the reception range of crystal radio sets.
They are required to stop advertising that under ordinary conditions the sets have a receiving range of from 25 to 50 miles or more, or that their usual range is in excess of their actual capacity to provide reception only for powerful local b roadcasting stations.
The order also prohibits claims that the sets will afford increased selectivity by use of a condenser.
The RTMA last week took steps to safeguard the interests of radio-television manufacturers in connection with proposed excess profits tax legislation expected to be considered at a special ses¬ sion of Congress following the elections. Hearings on the tax legis¬ lation are scheduled to commence Nov. 15 before the House Ways and Means Committee.
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