Radio annual (1949)

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Television Highlights 24 — A. T. & TVs new rates for its coaxial cable and relay, scheduled to go into effect on May | will be filed with the FCC next week, it was announced yesterday by Bartlett T. Miller, veepee. Proposed rates will cost the broadcasters $35 a month per airline mile. 29 — London — Expected flare-up between musicians and performers here and the BBC regarding television contracts has resulted in a ban on union members in the medium after May 31, it was announced last week after a joint meeting of Equity, Variety Artists Federation and the Musicians Union. APRIL 6 — New York City Government is making an all-out effort to pave the way for TV expansion as one of the town's potentially greatest industries — and making certain TV won't go west the way films did 20 years ago. 13 — Hitherto unexplored facet of television's ability to do a public relations selling job will be tested for the first time on a large scale by a major industrial organization tonight via a nine-city campaign undertaken by the Union Oil Company of Los Angeles, Calif. 16 — FCC chairman Wayne Coy this week declared the television industry is currently "booming," and predicted that the present rate of its development will mean that over 400 stations will have been granted by the end of this year. 20 — DuMont network is prepared to make its video fare available to motion picture theaters when and if film distributors reciprocate by providing the web use of feature pictures, Dr. Allen B. DuMont revealed yesterday. tion in March. Exceptions are to be filed by May 28. 12 — NBC and RKO-Pathe yesterday signed a fiveyear pact whereby the network leases three sound studios and an entire floor of office space in the film company's studio building at 106th Streeet and Park Avenue, in Manhattan. Pact gives NBC a totil of five studios in N. Y. C. alone. 18 — Video looms as a definite threat for theater box-office and its power to keep people at home more than ever is already reflected in curbed movie attendance, a survey made recently by Foote, Cone & Belding (N. Y.) revealed. 19 — CBC board of governors announced yesterday its policy on television and emphasized that in view of the limited number of frequencies likely to be available, it will "exercise great care in recommendations regarding applications from individuals or private companies for television licenses." 25 — FCC announced this week a new policy on hearings of television applications— designed to fit in with the new allocation plan outlined early this month — which is expected to result in a delay of further hearings for new stations in most large cities. ~>.6 — British press, pointedly indifferent toward the development of television in the United Kingdom since the end of the war, recently executed an about face which is interpreted in trade sources as indicating serious concern over the medium's progress in the UK, in comparison with television in the United States. Jt/iVE 23 — Major set manufacturers, long nettled over continued price-cutting and other "malpractices" on part of dealers in eastern cities, and particularly New York where traffic is heaviest, have been forced to take the drastic step in recent weeks — outright withdrawal of franchises. 27— The TBA told the FCC over the week-end that television relay rates filed with the Commission this winter by AT&T are "discriminatory, excessive and unreasonable," and asked a hearing before the Commission on the schedule. MAY 8 — FCC over the weekend proposed a new rule on the minimum time limit on the air for video stations patterned after suggestions filed by the Television Broadcasters Associa 3 — RCA has developed a new 500-watts video transmitter which will facilitate the extension of TV service to cities of 50,000 population and enable smaller station to act as network outlets or to originate their own programs, it was announced yesterday. 9 — Formal dedication of Westinghouse Television station WBZ-TV marked by a substantial expansion of programming, and featuring religious, government and business leaders of the community will be held in Boston tonight. 10 — Initial results of the first comprehensive study of the growth, impact and effect of television on a typical American community on a continuing basis were revealed yesterday by the Newell-Emmett Company, one of the major ad agencies active in video at the moment. 1108