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TV STATION ROLL-CALL
1948-1949
KPIX, San Francisco, Calif.
KPIX transmitted its initial test pattern on December 13, 1948. Five days later it released the first regular program, with an effective radiated power of 30 kw. Construction permit was granted October 17, 1946, but actual construction was begun two years later, when the erection of the antenna was started, followed immediately by the installation of other equipment.
The transmitter is located on the top floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel. The five-bay antenna stands 100 feet above the top of the hotel's tower roof. Specially constructed studios for KPIX are combined with the KFSO studio and office building, erected within the past five years, adjoining the Mark Hopkins Hotel. KPIX's studio is 27 x 40 ft., double height ceiling and control rooms located on the second floor for perfect visibility.
Philip G. Lasky Gen. Mgr.
WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, Pa.
WFIL-TV went on the air commercially September 13, 1947, three months after the first shipment of equipment for the station had been delivered. On February 1, 1948, the station moved from its temporary quarters into its new studios constructed expressly for the accommodation of a complete television station. WFIL-TV's television newsreel, among the first daily motion picture newsreels in the industry, was awarded the only National Headliner's Club medal ever given to a television news program on March 19, 1948.
On January 1, 1949, it was announced that the station's transmitter would be moved some time this year from its present Widener Building location to a new site on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
Roger W. Clipp Gen. Mgr.
Walter Compton Gen. Mgr.
pickup cameras.
and associated equipment.
WTTG, Washington, D. C.
WTTG, owned and operated by Allen B. DuMont Labs., Inc. first went into operation on Channel five as W3XWT under an experimental license on June 25, 1945. STA for commercial operation was granted on November 29, 1946. WTTG is key station in Washington for the DuMont Television Network and is on the air 67 hours per week (50 hours programming, 17 hours Test Pattern) .
Facilities for studio (20 x 40 ft.) in the Harrington
Hotel include two image orthicon turret cameras and
two 16mm film projectors with associated iconoscope
Remote facilities include four image orthicon cameras
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