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TV STATION ROLL-CALL — 1948-1949
WAGA-TV, Atlanta, Ga.
WAGA-TV, Atlanta's second television station began |pl| operation on March 8, 1949. Test patterns were started
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(^ '^Hfc 7 P-M and featured Previews of both WAGA-TV's local
BIS shows and network features. Regular programming is
1HM i on a seven day a week schedule for a total of 21 hours.
The station's main studio is located at 1032 West
George b. Storer, Jr. Peachtree St., and arrangements have been made for a
Manager remote studio located in the Tower Theater Building.
Mobile equipment consists of a special events truck with two field cameras.
The station is equipped with two 16mm projectors.
WATV, Newark, N. J.
WATV, one of the seven stations allocated to the North-East New Jersey area became the 26th television station in America to go on the air when it began operations on May 15, 1948.
Although located in New Jersey, its signal strength is such that it provides entertainment for some 13 million residents of the great metropolitan area. Situated in Newark at the station-owned Television Center, a seven-story building housing a ballroom which accommodates 1500 and a theater seating 3500, WATV's facilities also include, in addition to two smaller studios, a main studio (82 x 84 feet) equipped with elaborate lighting and sets, to gether with galleries for both sponsors and audience.
[rving R. Rosenhous Pres. & Gen. Mgr.
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KTLA, Hollywood, Calif.
KTLA, has been on the air in Los Angeles almost continuously since Sept. 1942. First licensed experimentally as W6XYZ, it carried on extensive technical research and modest programming through the war years.
Studios are adjacent to the Paramount Pictures Studio. They consist of two sound stages. One 22' x 36' is equipped with three studio orthicon cameras, dolly mounted, microphone boom and fixed microphones as required, internal reflector lighting units and spotlights. The other studio, 36' x 46', is equipped with three studio orthicon cameras, dolly mounted, adjustable lighting units individually controlled. Film studios are equipped to handle both 16 and 35 mm sound or silent pictures.
Klaus Landsberg Gen. Mgr.
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