Radio annual and television yearbook (1946)

TELEVISI0I1 HIGHLIGHTS— 1945 (From the Files of RADIO DAILY) A review of the past year's television events indicates the tremendous possibilities of the sight-and-sound medium. Increasing momentum is evident from the upward surge of activity reported in the columns of Radio Daily. JANUARY 10 — Keen interest in television as an important factor in displaying and merchandising goods as leaders in the industry discussed its various phases at the National Retail Dry Goods Association convention in New York. 12 — A last minute request for permission to televise the inauguration of President Roosevelt was turned down by the White House because arrangements for press, radio and pix coverage had already been worked out. 16 — Slicing by one-third the number of sixmegacycle channels for television, the FCC announced that it believed the current monochrome service should not be scrapped en the promise that a new color tele system would someday be ready. Instead of the present 18 channels below 294 megacycles, there would be 12 according to the allocation system announced by the commission. These channels would be shared with noninterfering services. 17 — Approval of the action by the FCC in its ''decision favoring the continuance of commerical television in that portion of the spectrum currently used by television broadcasters" was voiced by J. R. Pcppele, president of Television Broadcasters Association. 22 — Tele and FM applications will not be served on a "first come, first served" basis, FCC Chairman Paul A. Porter told the FCC Bar Association. 26 — Robert L. Gibson, vice-president and member of the board of directors of TBA resigned because his firm, GE, had shifted him to another department in the company. F. J. Bingley, chief television engineer for Philco, and a TBA board member was elected to the post of vice-president. The board vacancy was not filled. 30 — At a meeting of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. governors, Dr. Augustin Frigon, general manager, in discussing television prospects in Canada, said that CBC had obtained a site in Toronto for the purpose of building a television station and, he added, that other stations would be established across Canada in due time. FEBRUARY 2 — Juan Trippe, Pan-American World Airways president announced the sponsorship of a new 15-minute world-travelogue television show titled, "Wings of Democracy." 7 — Forecasting the possibilities of subscription television as a method of creating "boxoffice" for video, Arthur Levey, president fo Scophony Corp. of America, announced that SCA was contemplating production of home tele receivers for that purpose. 9 — Technical employers of CBS were accorded the privilege of attending a special 60-week course in the operation of television studio and transmitter equipment beginning Feb. 12. Arranged in three 20-week segments, the tripartite course was given by the Division of General Education and College of Engineering of NYU under the direction of Dr. Peter Goldmark, CBS director of engineering research and development department, and Robert Serrell, member of CBS' television engineering operations, assisted by Mason Escher, technical staffer representing the IBEW. 14 — Development of a new television technique known as "Tele-Minicatures" affording greater speed in production and increased economy, was announced by Patrick Michael Cunning, head of P. M. Cunning Tele. Products. 19 — Newsreels and television were on an equal footing insofar as release dates of footage from the War Department was concerned. Only reason the tele pool received War Department footage later than the newsreel pool was that the department, in order to speed handling, did not copy the film itself. 20 — Television, discontinued in Great Britain shortly after the start of the war, was resumed on a private-showing basis. 23 — Maintaining their position that only the use of wide bands in the higher frequencies could provide television pictures with twice 999