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TV STATION ROLL-CALL — 1948-1949
James C. Hanrahan V.P. & Gen. Mgr.
WEWS, Cleveland, Ohio
WEWS began operations from their three studios in downtown Cleveland on December 17, 1947. At the present time their projection equipment consists of two 16 mm film projectors, one 35 mm film strip projector, one 35 mm slide projector and one balopticon. The station also has three dual image orthicon chains and one iconoscope projection chain, and complete facilities for remote pick-ups.
Five 16 mm cameramen, one film lab technician, six silent 16 mm cameras, one Houston 16 mm processing machine with one Bell & Howell 16 mm printer on hand to take care of the 5!/2 hours of film casting for the station. This, plus IOV2 hours of local live entertainment, 19 hours of network telecasting, and 5 hours of remote pickups makes up an average 40 hours of programming per week.
KNBU, Hollywood, Calif.
Hollywood's NBC television station went on the air on January 16, 1949. The broadcast originated from Studio F of NBC's Hollywood Radio City, which has been converted into a 50 x 100 foot television studio.
In the NBC owned building at the corner of Selma and Vine Streets 10,000 square feet of space has been remodeled for the use of production facilities department and the various field units. The TT-5A type RCA antenna is located on Mt. Wilson at 5,700 feet above sea level. Equipment includes 3 RCA orthicon cameras, two 35 mm and two 16 mm sound projectors, one balopticon unit and one complete mobile unit equipped with generator and three image orthicon cameras. All equipment is RCA.
Harold J. Bock
Mgr., Wstn. Div.
WNBW, Washington, D. C.
WNBW is owned and operated by NBC. It first went on the air June 27, 1947, with studio and transmitter at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D. C. The station was the 11th on the air nationally and the seventh to receive a commercial license — the first post-war commercial license issued by the FCC. The transmitter is an RCA TT5-A, the first post-war transmitter built and installed by RCA. The tower is 350 feet above sea level. The station operates with an effective radiated power of 20.7 KW. WNBW has the most modern television studios operating in the Capital. The equipment includes five image orthicon camera chains, and a mobile unit utilizing two image orthicon chains.
W. R. McAndrew Operating Dir.
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