Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1946)

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He ini Radio News Services 6/12/46 Philco has largely overcome the critical shortage of cabinet woods for radio receivers and radio phonographs by acquir¬ ing approximately 22,000 acres of standing timber in North and South Carolina. Adjacent logging and sawmill facilities have al¬ ready been established, the Company advises, and operations are now underway. The "Standing Room Only" sign soon will again confront network radio advertisers, following the recent flow of new accounts signed on the Columbia Broadcasting System, William C. G-ittinger, CBS Vice-President in Charge of Sales, predicted last week, "Within the last month, CBS has signed three half-hour periods and one quarter hour period, all scheduled to start new broadcast series within sixty days", Mr. Gittinger said. Dance rFit zge rald-Sample , Inc., has filed for incorpora¬ tion of its radio department as a separate entity under the name of Features Productions, Inc. Those in the operation will be the present radio department of DancerFit zge raidSample and addition¬ al creative show talent. The principal office will be in the agency1 s quarters at 247 Park Avenue, New York, New York. A four weeks' course in television theory and operation, designed expressly for engineers of broadcasting stations, will be conducted this Summer by RCA Institutes, Inc., in cooperation with the National Broadcasting Company and the RCA Victor Division, The course opened June 3rd and will continue in session five days a week until June 28th. It is a repetition of similar courses instituted in 1944 and 1945. Col. Jonn A. Holman has been appointed Business Director of Westinghouse Stratovision, the new system of airborne television and FM radio transmission which the Company has under development. Colonel Holman is a veteran radio executive who assisted in organ¬ izing the present NBC network more than 20 years ago. Intra-store television made its initial appearance in the Mid-South during the Memphis Cotton Week Festival, when the B. Lowenstein and Brother Department Store, in cooperation with the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America, presented a series of television shows which were seen during the week by an audience estimated at 75,000, Television, broadcast from the Eiffel Tower, was a strik¬ ing and popular feature of the Paris Exposition of 1937. I, T. & T. ' s French associate, whose earlier pioneering of microwaves helped lay the groundwork for television, designed and installed the world's largest television station in the Eiffel Tower. The equip¬ ment has been modernized recently for high definition 1000-line television. A special coaxial cable 3 inches in diameter was de¬ signed and installed to link the transmitting apparatus at the base with the antenna at the top of the tower. XXXXXXXXX 16