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- 2 - TELEVISION'TOPICS RESTR ICTIONS ON THE U SE OF TELEVISION FILM S have been demanded by the A-Frof-L Screen Actors Guild. They fear the new medium may turn into what they call a Frankenstein monster. The Guild says thousands of TV movies would cut acting wages and reduce employment of actors unless their use is regulated by collective bargaining contract. TELEVISION STATION U-H-E^N BEGAN BROADCASTS NOVEMBER 29 . Owned by the Meredith Engineering Company WHEN-TV is directed by Captain W, C, Eddy, television pioneer. AN ESTE ATED TUP -MILLION PERSONS SAU TE E OPENING N IGHT. PRESErEATIOJT pF.lLQTBII,E n broadcasting from the Metropolitan Opera House by ABC over the company’s East Coast Network. Black and white version failed to catch the glitter of colorful costumes, but viewers, thousands of them for the first time, not only saw opera but had an intimate backstage glimpse of interviews with Met artists and officials denied to the celebrity studded audience out front. Illumination was by "black light." Music came through brilliantly. Met officials expressed the belief TV would popularize opera the way radio did concerts. 1QQQ TV STATIO NS in 7 to 12 Y EA RS IS THE PREDICTION OF FCC CHAIR MAN COY. In 1946 there were 6 TV stations and 6500 TV receivers. In 1948 there are 42 TV stations and 718,000 TV receivers in use. The FCC expects 400 TV stations to be on the air in 1950, and a coast-to-coast TV network in operation by 1952. Estimates of 1949 TV receiver production range from 2,500,000 to 4j000,000. TELEVISION STATION UBKB MILL START A NEW TYPE M R/S PROGRAM. SOON presenting Associated Press news directly on the screen as it is received on a new type ticker printer. ■ - Printed tape will be dravm across the TV screen, unaccompanied by sound initially,; - Later system of bells to denote stories varying in importance will accompany visual ^ presentation of news. Up to now-news has been presented by means of off-the-screen voice reading while still pictures or blank screen confronted viewer. However, TV watchers state they prefer to read news themselves. TV A TOOL OF TI LE RI CH?? A warning that television, which may wipe out sound radio, is likely to land in the laps of millionaires, came from Morris L. Ernst, N.Y. attorney, who laid the matter before the House Small Business Committee recently as one for ser¬ ious consideration. "Let’s take a look at television," he said, during his rambling dissertaion as witness. "It may^ipe out everything else in the field of radio and otherwise. There may be 1000/stations in America ultimately." "You know how much it costs? You'must have a million dollars. And it is that medium that is going to control ultimately what I think may be the transmission by either of the spot news and opinion of America." "I don’t believe that it is going to take the place of films, in the sense of feature pictures. But who is going to own those 1,000 pipelines? How many people and how much diversity can there be—whon we are speaking of people in America who have millions of dollars?" "Take a look at the people who are in there. They are not evil. But they are- the people with a million dollarsj that is all."--VARIETY