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12/20/44
appears that 100,000 to 150,000 receivers will be needed to support efficient commercial broadcasting stations,
•'Once television receivers are brought within the buying reach of great numbers, advertisers will be attracted and the resulting revenue will finance programs equivalent in value to radio and motion picture entertainment and education. '•
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MACKAY RADIO "STATION 25" DELIVERS THE GOODS FOR PATTON
Mackay Radio "Station 25" which has followed the battlefront all the way from the Norroandy beachhead to Germany, continues to pump a steady stream of messages from directly behind the fight¬ ing front in Europe across the Atlantic to New York after ooening the first radio telegraph service with i^rance at the 'time of the Normandy invasion. Tlie man responsible for opening the circuit on the beachhead and keeping it open while crashing through France with Lieutenant General Patton's lightning Third Array is L. F. Spangenberg, Assistant Vice President and a Director of Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company, who has recently returned to this country.
Long before the invasion, Mackay Radio, an affiliate of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, undertook the assignment of providing a complete radio station for the new Western Front. To Federal Telephone and Radio Co rt^o ration, manufacturing affiliate of I, T. & T, , was assigned the task of building a 15-kilo¬ watt transmitter. Countless associated items, such as sectional antenna masts, insulators, wire and complete power plants, and a vast amount of miscellaneous equipment were gathered together and shipped to Great Britain, there to await transshipment to France.
With these materials went a goodly supply of other equipment to meet emergencies over a long future period.
The station, before being shipped to England, was assembled at a point on Long Island and given thorough trials before being broken domn and crated for the ocean voyage. Its crew was made up of carefully selected Mackay engineers, technicians and operators, chosen from the more seasoned of Mackay Radio's long-time employees. They were men who could be relied upon to know and do a Job quickly and carefully, even under enemy fire. Transported to England, they underwent battle training there while waiting for D-Day to arrive.
When General Eisenhower's vast armade moved across the English Channel for the Normandy beaches, the crew was alerted for the moment when our Army should reach "X" spot, the point selected for erection of the station. Hardly had "X" spot been captured when all the men and equipment were on the move to it.
At the last minute a change in plans obliged them to leave behind the Federal-built equipment and adapt a one-kilowatt, station¬ ary Army set for mobile service direct to the Mackay home office at 67 Broad Street, New York City. Without the equipment with which