The radio annual (1947)

1 — Acting FCC Chairman Charles Denny said that New York City would have to wait until other cities receive television service before hearings are held to fill its remaining channels. 4 — All television stations throughout the U. S., with the exception of General Electrics WRGB, Schenectady, went off the air at midnight (March 1) for short periods to reconvert transmitters in accordance with new frequency allocations set down by the FCC last fall. 4 — Frank Stanton, president of CBS revealed the findings of a "scientific study which tested the reactions of present television set owners, chosen at random from the N. Y. area after witnessing a color television broadcast." According to the study a "clear mandate" for color television was indicated. 5 — One of the first demonstrations of television as a vehicle for presenting a sales and merchandising program to company officials was held last week by the RCA tube department, utilizing NBC's video facilities to present to top management executives of RCA Victor its plans for production, merchandising and advertising. 7 — NBC issued a brochure outlining production procedure and establishing charges for the use of its television facilities in a direct invitation to advertising agencies and clients to actively participate in commercial video broadcasting. 7 — First licenses to embody CBS ultra-high frequency color inventions in television receivers and studio apparatus were granted to the Westinghouse Electric Corp. Arrangements are on a patent royalty basis, extend for five years and provide for renewal. 7 — Television's educational value was cited when the N. Y. Fire Dept. requested permission to use CBS' tele newsreel of a recent two-alarm $100,000 fire that occurred on lower Broadway. Hailed as the "best film of actual firefighting" it will be used in training of rookies. 8 — NBC, Bamberger and the Evening Star Broadcasting Co. were granted the Washington, D. C. television channels by the FCC. 11—WPTZ, Philadelphia, the Philco television station returned to the air on new Channel 3 (60-66 mc.) 12— NBC will return to daytime television on regularly scheduled basis with a threetimes weekly program when WNBT resumes normal operations next month. 13 — The British Broadcasting Corp. revealed its video plans at the closing session of the annual Radio Conference of the University of Oklahoma. Television was the paramount topic of the final session. 15 — DuMont's television studio in the John Wanamaker Dept. Store in N. Y. will be officially opened on the evening of April 15, it was announced by Leonard F. Cramer, executive vice-president of Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc. 20 — George L. Moscovics, commercial manager of CBS television station WCBW, N. Y. declared at luncheon meeting of the Advertising Club that color television can be brought to the public within a year, "if the industry as a whole will get behind high-frequency color." 20 — Television plans for coverage of the atomic bomb test in the Bikini Islands in May were announced by six major television companies; ABC; CBS (WCBW); NBC (WNBT); Balaban & Katz, Chicago (WBKB); Allen B. DuMont Laboratories (WABD) and Philco (WPTZ) Philadelphia. 22 — Revolutionary television news coverage over long and short distances, from land, sea and air, is foreseen as one of many possibilities opened by two systems of airborne tele revealed for the first time in a joint Navy-RCA demonstration at the Naval Air Station at Anaeosta, D. C. Classified by the Navy as "Block" and "Ring," the systems were developed during the war. 22 — In the opinion of C. E. Nobles of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Baltimore, Md.» the time required for the "build-up" of cross country television network service can be reduced appreciably by acceptance of Stratovision, the proposed plan of broadcasting television programs from high flying planes. 22— Stating that he was "deeply shocked" by the FCC's decision in the Washington television grants, John Ballantyne, president of Philco Products requested that the company's application be withdrawn. 25 — NBC sent out invitations to the special television broadcast of the opening of the UN session at Hunter College in New York City. Proceedings were picked up direct from the conference room and transmitted to receivers installed in Studio 8G in the RCA Building. Ben Grauer, NBC announcer handled the program from Hunter College. 26 — Gimbel Bros., Philadelphia signed for a series of tele programs. It was the first department store in that city to sign and recently staged an intra-store tele demonstration with RCA 1018