NBC transmitter (Jan 1943-Sept 1944)

April 1944 COAXIAL CALENDAR Approximate dates" on which coaxial cable circuits planned by the Bell System should be completed, assuming labor and materials are available. 1945 — New York— Washington 1946 — New York— Boston Washington— Charlotte Chicago— Terre Haute— St. Louis Los Angeles— Phoenix 1947 — Chicago — Toledo — Cleveland —Buffalo Southern Transcontinental Route (a large part) Will include Charlotte— Columbia— Atlanta — Birmingham — Jackson — Dallas — El Paso — Tucson — Phoenix 1948-1950 — Southern Transcontinental (complete) Washington— Pittsburgh— Cleveland St. Louis — Memphis — New Orleans Kansas City— Omaha Des Moines— Minneapolis Atlanta— Jacksonville— Miami Los Angeles— San Francisco * This table was read to the NBC War Clinics by Niles Trammell, network president , in conjunction with his talk, printed , in part, on page 3. NBC Sight Unit Offers Official War Filmings NEW YORK.— NBC Television Station WNBT on February 21 featured the first in a series of battle films under the title, “See the War as It Happens.” Arrangements to carry these up-to-theminute records of military operations were made in cooperation with the War Department, through its Bureau of Public Relations, and with the United States Signal Corps and the Army Air Forces. The first television program presented official films taken by government camera men at the Anzio beachhead in Italy, air views of the bombings of German industrial centers, views of our troops in the India theater of war, and of Lord Louis Mountbatten in an inspection of Allied flyers in the Orient. NBC assembles the special program from film subjects released by the several government agencies. Ben Grauer, NBC announcer, acts as commentator. Television Station WRGB. Schenectady, re-telecasts the programs by direct pickup from WNBT. U. S. Hospitals Get 45 More NBC, RCA and GE Video Sets NEW YORK.— NBC and RCA, in cooperation with the General Electric Company, have begun the installation of 45 additional television receivers in hospitals established in the metropolitan area for wounded service men. These instruments are in addition to the 10 RCA receivers which have been in operation in six hospitals since November, 1943. Of the sets newly assigned for this purpose, the General Electric Company is supplying 25. Plans for the installation of the original television sets were worked out last October by NBC and RCA in cooperation with Army and Navy medical authorities. At the same time, NBC announced the expansion of its television programs to include frequent pickups of sports contests and other events from Madison Square Garden for the entertainment of the hospitalized veterans. Response to these special programs from the men and their commanding officers was so favorable that NBC. RCA and GE decided to install additional receivers in the same hospitals and in one other. Television sets have not been manufactured since 1942 but company officials turned in some of the needed instruments and the remainder of the RCA-NBC allotment were reclaimed from New York’s police precinct houses where they had been used for two years to instruct air wardens and fire guards. Hospitals which will obtain receivers and the number assigned to each institution are as follows: Halloran General Hospital, Staten Island— 15 sets. United States Naval Hospital, St. Albans— 11 sets. Tilton General Hospital. Fort Dix, N. J.— 4 sets. United States Naval Hospital. Brooklyn Navy Yard— 10 sets. Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City— 1 set. Mason General Hospital. Rrentwood. L. I.— 4 sets. Equipment allotted to the United States Navy Convalescent Hospital, Harriman, New York, was installed some time ago. The men who have been able to witness the programs have expressed their appreciation for the special service made available through NBC’s television schedule and the donations of the receivers. VIRGINIA VISION RICHMOND, VA. A lull-page advertisement in The Richmond News Leader of March 7 was the rousing response of Wilbur M. Havens, owner-manager of WMBG, and Robert E. Mitchell, director of national sales and promotion at the station, when they returned from NBC’s War Clinic in New York at which Niles Trammell, president of NBC, discussed the vital issue of “What About Television? WMBG is the first Virginia station to file application for television and frequency modulation. The ad included plans for a studio and office building to house it and a complete mobile unit. The proposed projection studio will have a control room, projector room and combined film vault and editing room. The television mobile unit will contain the equivalent of the studio control room and a radio transmitter used to relay signals for rebroadcast on the main transmitter. NBC TELEVISION POLICY ( Continued from page 3) necting with San Francisco and graduallv extending to other important points. These regional networks will graduallv stretch out over wider areas, and will themselves become linked together. Thus, city after city, across the continent will be brought into network operation, until finally complete nationwide networks will become a reality. Television is as great a forward stride in the field of communication as aviation has proved to be in the realm of transportation. Accordingly, the networking of television programs on a nationwide basis, when this can be achieved, w ill be one of the major services of the 20th century to the American people. Despite the problems and the risks which confront the broadcasting industry, the National Broadcasting Company believes that television service should be brought as soon as possible into ever) American home, and that this is and should remain the task of private enterprise.