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TV STATION ROLL-CALL — 1948-1949
WAVE-TV, Louisville, Ky.
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WAVE-TV started regular commercial broadcasting on November 24, 1948. It operates on a five-day-a-week schedule averaging about 20 hours per week. Equipment and facilities include a 570-ft. tower located atop the main studios, a completely equipped mobile operation bus, two 16mm projectors and cameras, two studio cameras, two remote cameras and a monoseope. The main studio fluorescent lighting is adjustable and is augmented by a series of movable spots; the basic scenery, which has self-supporting walls, includes working doors, fireplace, French windows, frame window, 40-ft. landscape and a
street scene.
As of January 1, 1949 ,the number of television receivers in the Louisville
area is estimated at 3,000, 212 of which are in public places.
Nathan Lord Gen. Mgr.
WMAL-TV, Washington, D. C.
WMAL-TV, channel 7, the Evening Star Broadcasting Co.'s television station and ABC outlet in Washington, was the first television station to advertise and maintain a seven-nights-a-week schedule of television programs. The station went the air October 3, 1947, and established a record for 27 days' time between delivery of transmitter and going on the air. Station is the most powerful in the city with video of 27.7 kw and aural of 13.9 kw. Antenna is 517 feet above the average terrain.
Firsts for the station include obtaining permission for the first White House telecast ; the first Senate and House Committee telecasts while in session ; the first showing of the constellation by attaching cameras to the large telescope at the Naval Observatory.
K. H. Berkeley V.P. & Gen. Mgr.
JKFI-TV, Los Angeles, Calif.
KFI-TV went on the air with test pattern transmission on June 21, 1948. A period of experimental programming began on August 25, followed six weeks later by a regular schedule of commercial operation, telecasting about 15 hours per week with studio and remote programming. The station transmits from its Mt. Wilson transmitter with an effective radiated power of 29.7 kw. video, 15 kw audio.
KFI-TV's audience response to "Television Talent Test" on New Year's night brought over 9,000 individual telephone calls in a three-hour period recording more than 17,000 vote preferences for talent contestants on the air.
William B. Ryan Gen. Mgr.
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