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TV and Radio Plan ('onvcnrion C^ovcniye t/iW By William R. McAndrew Director oj Publk Ajjuirs 'Iflerision Diiision. NMinnal Broadciisting Co. T HIS July millions of Americans will have a time- honored political custom, the national conventions, laid bare in their living riwms. Through television and radio the deliberations and sometimes the antics of these great quadrennial gatherings will be seen and heard coast-to- co.ist for the first time. The effect of these two mediums of communications upon the electorate and the traditional system of political campaigns is unpredictable. Such a widely read colum- nist as Walter l.ippmann wonders if it might not be a change in the whole method of national campaigns, l.ippmann suggests that candidates for national office may have to confine themselves to TV campaigns in the last few days or weeks before election rather than make frequent nationwide personal appearances. Certainly, the preparations going into television coverage of the conventions indicates that they will be the best covered events in the history of the epoch- making industry. This can be understood when some of the facts and figures of NBC convention coverage are considered. NBC will move more than two hundred people to Chicago for a period of two to four weeks. More than $1,500,000 worth of equipment will be utilized. Miles of cable will be installed. Two television studios, capable of holding from twenty-five to fifty people will be built in the Intcrn.itional Amphitheatre, on Chicago's south side, the site of both conventions. Teletype print- ers of the three major press associations will be installed in the network's combined radio and TV newsroom. Office furniture, typewriters, paper, pencils, even paper clips, must be obtained for the use of more than fifty comment.uors and reporters who will cover for NBC. A full-time 24-hour news desk will be manned to service the various regular news programs, which will originate from the convention city. A complete film developing plant will be leased. Motorcycle messengers will trans- port film from camera to developer and b-ick to the studios for projection. Two private NBC telephone switchboards will be set up. Direct telephone lines from the convention hall back to New York must be installed for instantaneous communication with NBC head- quarters in Radio City. A special teletyp>e circuit will connect all television stations taking NBC service to keep them informed of last minute changes in the con- RCA's TV "Wolkie-Lookie," shown in action at left, is examined below by NBC's William F. Brooks, Bill Henry, O. B. Hanson and William McAndrew. wmm