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ceca A DISCUSSION OF KINESCOPE RECORDING AS IT AFFECTS THE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION STATION
By EA. Hungerford, Jr., Consultant, Joint Committee on Educational Television for The First National Conference on Educational Television Washington, D.C. == May lh, 1953
FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY--103:00 a.m.
It is now apparent that the first educational television stations will be widely separated one from the other. This was to be expected because the basic emphasis in the past year has been to bchavest each state in making its first steps toward the use of television for education. Since this is true, some method must be devised to allow each station throughout the country to make use of the better programs produced by each of the other stations»
In the early days of commercial television broadcasting the program hours were very few. Not many of them would be described as good programs in light of what has been done since» The reasons are obviouse There were just a handful of stations and each had to produce their entire program schedule without the cooperation of any other station. Today it is recognized that stations even in the big markets could not exist if it were not for their connection to the major networks with the tremendous program resources of New York, Hollywood, Chicago and a few other centerse In fact some of the present day commercial stations still do not own a television camera and rely entirely upon film and network servicese
The first commercial network programs originated in New York and were fed to Philadelphia. This was back in 190. WRGB in Schenectady, using a highly sensitive apparatus on a mountain near Albany, was able to receive the New York NBC transmitter and relay those programs to the Albany=Schenectady area. This was the second network station. Soon thereafter Washington was added and then came World War II.
It was not until after the War vik the electronic industry was released for civilian work that the network idea began to spread to a point where a single program could reach an appreciable percentage of our nation's population. With this networking came the big television programs of today and now network service is on a coast
to coast basiso