Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1946)

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Heinl Radio News Service 6/5/46 It is not, of course, intended as entertainment for view¬ ers, who already possess television receivers, but, despite this, the film will have very considerable entertainment value in that it takes the audience back-stage at Alexandra Palace and at outside broadcasts, and also gives them a pot-pourri of some of the main types of television program both past and future. .411 the members of the production were in the Services during the mr. Miss Winifred Shotter, who has been appointed as the new BBC Television woman announcer, was chosen from among 119 applicants who underwent camera tests. Miss Ja.smine Bligh, pre-war television announcer, is resuming her work as before. The 119 applicants were selected from nearly 600 people of both sexes. Twenty-one twelve of them women and nine men were given a second camera test, and, of those, four women and five men were picked for the third and lest round. Miss Shotter has playe pleading lady in many London stage shows, and has also acted in films, both in British studios and in Hollywood. Outlining the British television plans in London Calling, Maurice Corham, head of the Television Service said: "We mean to give increased emphasis to actuality broadcast¬ ing. We are assembling our two mobile units each made up of four vehicles carrying transmitter, generator, aerial, and scanning apparatus and with their aid we hope to take into viewers1 homes every event of importance in the London area.* * * And we shall make full use, too, of the resources of film an indispensable ingredient of the television service using it not necessarily as an alterna¬ tive to "live” production, but as its complement and supplement.* * * "The main programme transmissions will be in the afternoon and evening two periods each of ninety minutes in length. "The television mast at Alexandra Palace, 600 feet above sea level, looks over London, sprawling massively, endlessly, away from the foot of the hill. Soon, maybe, the H-like aerials that television requires will be sprouting in uncountable number all over that ragged panorama of London’s roofs. And to see beyond the London area. . . That is both a duty of today and a hope of the future. " XXXXXXXXXX Recordings of the Columbia network broadcast of the histor¬ ic ceremonies returning the Magna Gna rta to England have been pre¬ sented by WTOP-CBS, Washington, D. C. to 400 schools in WTOP’s pri¬ mary listening area. The first album was presented by Carl J. 3urkland, General Manager, to Dr. Hobart M. Corning, District of Columbia Superintendent of Schools. The great charter, exacted of King John at Runnymede near Windsor, England, in the Summer of 1215, was kept in the Library of Congress for safekeeping throughout the war. XXXXXXXXXX