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TELEVISION LOOMS AS BIO QUESTION MA^K OP 1$37
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With the entire radio industry manufacturers as well as broadcasters ending what is expected to be the most prosper¬ ous year in the trade’s brief history, all eyes are turning to 1937 in expectation of even greater things.
As the industrial upswing gains momentum weekly there is every indication that the industry will continue to cropper and probably establish new records in the new year. The field of speculation consequently shifts to the technical aspects of broad¬ casting with television standing forth as the big question mark of 1937.
While the maj :rity of leaders in the industry take the position that technical developments are not yet ripe for public reception of television, there are indications that one or more experimenter will try to jump the gun in 1957 even though owner¬ ship of televisors would be limited to the luxury class.
The Federal Communications Commission, however, holds the television strings by restricting the art to the experimental field, and its engineers hold that neither the public nor the industry is ready for the new form of transmission.
Public interest is daily growing stronger in television, however, because of developments abroad, especially the regular f ‘ service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the private demonstrations in this country, all duly reported in the press.
Consequently the demand for some public exhibition of visual broadcasting may exert sufficient pressure both on the industry and the FCC to bring te levision into being as a play¬ thing just as radio reception was in the days of the crystal set.
Next to television facsimile broadcasting attracts the most speculative interest because of the possibilities it suggests even to the layman's mind.
While much less interesting to the public, technical developments in the ultra short-wave bands, the attitude of the FCC toward super-power broadcasting, pr cserva tion of clear channels, and. the economic rights of broadcasters will be watched with vital concern.
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