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NBC Studio 5H at opening in December. Technicians man console while broadcast coordina- tor occupies glass-paneled booth at left, facing large monitor panel at right of picture. New Flexibility for TV in NBC Studio 5H By Leonard Hole Director of Production, National Broadcasting Company P JL OR the first time in television history, the National Broadcasting Company last month placed at the finger- tips of one man the ability to weave into a unified pro- gram the fast-breaking elements of a news story or major public event involving widely scattered locations through- out the country, and to break into any outgoing television program with news bulletins or emergency announce- ments. The revolutionary control is built into a compact suite known as TV Coordinating Studio 5H at the heart of the NBC television complex in Radio City, New York. Its entry into service solves a combination of needs that had become apparent to the NBC broadcast operations and engineering staffs over the past few years. From the standpoint of news coverage, for example, the facilities of Studio 5H embody lessons learned in television treat- ment of the political conventions and the election cam- paign of 1952, when rapidly shifting action underlined the need for a central point at which a single coordinator might view material picked up by various cameras and switch the outgoing program from one to another to keep pace with developments of greatest interest. Fre- quently, too, important news flashes were delayed by the somewhat complicated job of cutting into studio pro- grams being broadcast over automatically pre-set circuits. The solution to these two problems, among others, has been built into Studio 5H. The result for the tele- vision viewer will be more rapid handling of important news flashes, more complete and smoother presentation of major news events, conventions and campaigns, sports roundups and other far-flung features calling for simul- taneous coverage in several widely separated areas. For the future, it will make a practical reality of program concepts that have been up to now only a planner's dream. Originally Planned as a Film Studio The finished studio was several years in the making. Originally, 5H was planned principally as an additional television film studio to cope with increased program schedules. Before the NBC staff had finished with its planning, however, the project had grown into a complex S375,000 unit capable of originating film programs and integrating film with live programs, originating substitute film programs in case of scheduled program failure, broadcasting network identifications, local spot commer- cials and apology announcements when necessary, orig- inating spot news bulletins or emergency announce- ments, combining incoming programs from sources outside Radio City, and coordinating all broadcast trans- mission so that emergency changes in program routine could be handled swiftly and smoothly. The circuits through which these processes are accomplished are 24 RADIO AGE