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COLUMBIA SEEKS TO TRY TELEVISION TESTS
The Columbia Broadcasting System is eager to enter the experimental television field so that it will be prepared to compete with others when visual broadcasting is developed sufficiently to permit its use on a commercial basis, witnesses told the Federal Radio Commission October 3rd at a hearing on the application of the Atlantic Broadcasting Company, CBS subsidiary, for a new tele¬ vision station in New York City,
Harry C. Butcher, Director of the Washington office of Columbia, cited the alliance between the Paramount-Publix motion picture corporation and the Columbia System and emphasized the need of his organization to be prepared for the next step in the enter¬ tainment field.
After testimony had been offered that RCA-Victor Corpora¬ tion apparatus would be used, Gerald C. Gross, Commission engineer, expressed the opinion that the CBS experiments would merely dupli¬ cate those now being conducted by the National Broadcasting Company in the New York area. This would be unwise, he said, because of the scarcity of television channels.
Paul M. Segal, as counsel for the applicants, contended that even though the same apparatus would be employed by the com¬ petitive companies at the outset, the competition would make for progress. He said Columbia has its own competent technical staff which will continue research once the preliminary details are obtained from the RCA-Victor Company.
Declaring that there are only four full time channels for television available to the United States, Mr. Gross pointed out that 27 licensed experimenters are assigned to them. Any increase in the number of television experimenters on any of these bands, he asserted, will result in increased interference.
M. A. Trainer, television engineer of the RCA-Victor Corporation, explained that he had been detailed the assignment of installing the television apparatus for Atlantic if the Commission grants the application.
Questioned by Ben S. Fisher, Assistant General Counsel of the Commission, Mr. Trainer said that television "is still in the experimental stage. "
E. K. Cohan, Technical Director of Columbia, explained, that all the technical resources of that organization will be avail¬ able to the Atlantic Corporation in connection with television. Moreover, he said, ,rall of the talent and experience of the ParamountPublix Corporation will be available for visual purposes."
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