NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1937)

NBC TRANSMITTER VOL. 5 JULY I, n)r,7 NO. 7 RCA-NBC Exhibit for 1939 World’s Fair NBC OFFICIALS IN EUROPE TO STUDY TELEVISION Three NBC officials sailed for Europe aboard the S. S. Hamburg on June 5 to view television in various countries. They were C. W. Farrier, co-ordinator of NBC’s television activities, William S. Rainey, head of the Production Division, and Robert E. Shelby, television supervisor of the Engineering Department. Mrs. Rainey accompanied her husband. Included in the itinerary of this NBC “television expedition” are London, Paris and Amsterdam, where they will acquaint themselves with the technical and program experiments in television being con ducted by the British Broadcasting Company, the French broadcasting system, and the Phillips Manufacturing Company, respectively. Our representatives will also visit the television exhibit at the Paris Exposition. Messrs. Rainey, Farrier and Shelby are expected back in New York on July 9. In his absence Mr. Rainey’s post is being filled by his assistant, Thomas H. Hutchinson. BOYD APPOINTED HEAD OF N. Y. LOCAL SALES Maurice M. Boyd, salesman, was appointed head of the New York Local Sales Division on June 22 to succeed F. E. Spencer who resigned, effective July 1, to become vice-president and general manager of the New York division of Craig and Hollingbery, Inc. Mr. Spencer’s secretary, Miss Natalie M. Tait who joined NBC four years ago also resigned to continue as his secretary in his new position. Mr. Boyd, a native of the Hoosier State and a graduate of Purdue University with a B. S. E. E. degree. came to our Sales Department in January 1933. He started his career as a salesman immediately after leaving college when he joined the student training sales corps of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Following a short period with station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse sent him to the sales promotion department of its stations in Boston and Springfield, WBZ and WBZA, where he remained until he came to NBC. Ill Send your vacation pictures with complete captions to the Photo Contest before July 17. David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, and Grover Whalen, president of the New YOrk World's Fair of 1939, signed an agreement on June 17 whereby public demonstrations of every aspect of radio and television— the modern world’s and the future world’s most effective means of communication and entertainment — will be given by the Radio Corporation of America and the National Broadcasting Company at the coming World’s Fair. The ceremony was televised in the television studio of NBC in the RCA Building where representatives of the press both saw and heard the major participants, Mr. Sarnoff. Mr. Whalen and Lenox R. Lohr, president of the National Broadcasting Company. By terms of the agreement, RCA will construct on the Fair Ground in New York City an ultra-modern building which will house a complete exhibition of all branches of the radio art and its developments. Facilities will be provided for practical demonstration of all aspects of modern radio and television. This building, linked with the NBC television transmitter on the Empire State Building, will televise outstanding World’s Fair events, and will bring to visitors, for the first time in radio history, joint demonstrations of the marvels of sound and sight broadcasting. The complete story of radio will be told to Fair visitors, Mr. Sarnoff declared at the ceremony which was broadcast over NBC’s networks. Mr. Sarnoff appointed Mr. Lohr to take charge of the RCA-NBC exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair. Mr. Sarnoff said: “In addition to his duties as president of the NBC, I have delegated Mr. Lohr to take charge of the RCA Family’s participation in this great fair. His successful experience as head of the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition admirably qualifies him for this important assignment. As a member of the RCA Family the NBC will not only conduct the television demonstrations at the fair, but its networks will also carry the story of the exposition to our world-wide radio audience.” The introductory speech at the ceremony was made by Mr. Lohr, who said: “We welcome you this afternoon to our National Broadcasting Company television studio where in a brief ceremony history is to be made. Over a period of years, RCA has developed television. In the last year television has been turned over to {Continued on Page 11) A'fiC Photo by V'm. Haussler Television was assured an important role in the 1939 New York World’s Fair when David Sarnoff, president of RCA and Grover Whalen, president of the World’s Fair Corporation, signed a contract for extensive RCA and NBC participation in the Fair. Taking part in the ceremony in the NBC television studio in the RCA Building, the first of its kind ever to be televised, were, left to right: Betty Goodwin, NBC fashion editor and television announcer; Lenox R. Lohr, president of NBC; Mr. Sarnoff and Mr. Whalen. Engineer A. W. Protzman is operating the Iconoscope camera.