Radio daily (Apr-June 1937)

Friday. May 21. 1937 RADIO DAILY: STATION-STUDIO and TRANSMITTER EQUIPMENT NEW DEVICES and IMPROVEMENTS Latest Technical Developments and Activities in Radio and Television Five-Program Facilities Are Installed by WBNS Columbus — New facilities installed at WBNS make possible the feeding of five individual programs to stations simultaneously. The equipment, furnished by Collins Radio Co., enables feeding 28 loudspeaker circuits at the same time. There is unlimited remote control and network termination facilities, new type volume indicator, new console, new loudspeaker cabinets of the "base-reflex" type, special switching control panel with duplicate amplifier and operating equipment on the sides, etc. New equipment covers frequency range of 30 to 15,000 cycles with a distortion of less than one tenth of one per cent. Station Improvements Dodge City, Kas. — KGNO has asked the FCC for permit to install a new transmitter and erect a vertical antenna, along with increase in power to 1 kw. Walla Walla, Wash. — Changes in equipment, erection of a new vertical antenna and move of transmitter site are planned by KUJ, together with power increase to 250 watts. Bismarck, N. D. — KFYR has applied to the FCC for authority to install new automatic frequency control equipment. Auburn, N. Y. — License to cover construction permit for a new transmitter and antenna, increase in power and move of transmitter, has been requested by WMBO from the FCC. Lubcke's Television Talk West Coast Bureau. RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Harry R. Lubcke, Don Lee television chief, will talk to 600 delegates to the annual convention of Pacific Coast Electrical Ass'n at Hotel Huntington, Pasadena this weekend, on "Processes and Progress in Television." During the three-day session, he will broadcast (sight only) in a series of demonstrations which will be sent from the Don Lee image transmitter at Seventh and Bixel Streets, to Pasadena, more than eight miles away. Private Brand Sets Springfield. Mass. — United American Bosch Corp. is discontinuing the production of trade mark radio receiving sets on lune 1 and will make only private brand sets in future. There has been a morked increase in demand lor private brand sets, the company states. Get Used to Old Radio Sets Speaking at the RCAVictor soles convention in Chicago this week, David Sarnoff said: "Though radio has made America more musically appreciative, it has also given us millions of tin ears. People get so used to their own radios that even after the sets are five years old or older the owners maintain they sound better than the finest new receivers. But if you can get new sets into the homes for a few days, the family will get accustomed to the fuller toned radios and will be willing to discard obsolete sets." Scophony Demonstrates Big Screen Television London — Designed chiefly for reception and transmission of fllms, television apparatus employing a screen 5x4 feet has been successfully demonstrated by Scophony, Limited. Test was directed by Solomon Sagall, managing director. Brilliance and definition were so good that viewers believed they were watching the actual screening of a movie. Soviet government has bought similar apparatus for its new Moscow television plant. Joins NBC Engineer Staff Harry E. Hiller was added to the NBC studio engineering staff in New York this week. Hiller's experience in the sound engineering field was gained by long association with such leading New York theaters as the Radio City Music Hall, Center Theater, Capitol, Roxy and others. This is his first connection with NBC. KTSA Air Conditioning San Antonio — Executive offices of KTSA atop the Plaza Hotel are being air-conditioned throughout. Station Manager H. C. Burke has his temporary office on the third floor of the same hotel building. L. M. Treet, Hearst radio field technical representative, has been here on a business visit. Recording Studios Damaged West Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY Los Angeles — Fire spreading from an adjoining cafe burned off the roof and damaged studios of Recordings Inc. on Wednesday night. With equipment unharmed. Manager Larry Pfeiffer cleared away much recorded disks for Radioaids. Company will continue activity during repair work. WMAZ Adding Space Macon, Ga. — To accommodate additional auxiliary equipment now being installed, WMAZ is taking 200 square feet of floor space in another room of its transmitter building. New WBS Chi. Studios Are Opening Tomorrow Chicago — World Broadcasting System will open its new $200,000 studios at 301 E. Erie street tomorrow. Plant, a one story structure has three studios and an audition room. Opening of the new studios will enable World to do its processing here. Henceforth test pressings will be available here, greatly speeding up the service to advertisers. A. J. Kendrick is local manager and Read Wight is sales chief. 1938 Jobbers' Display Portland, Me. — Representatives of nine Maine radio jobbers have voted to hold a showing of 1938 radio models for dealers of Maine and Northern New Hampshire on June 29-30 in the Lafayette Hotel. Arrangements are by H. C. Merrill of the James Bailey Co., Christian Olson of the Farrar-Brown Co. and W. J. Hill of the Hub Cycle & Radio Co., all of Portland. P. C. Tuttle at WHK-WJAY Cleveland— p. C. Tuttle has been added to the engineering staff of WHK-WJAY. He was with American Telephone & Telegraph for eight years, and last year he aided P. J. Eubanks, WHK-WJAY engineer, in building the studio equipment for WJAY's Carnegie Hall studios prior to the move to the Terminal Tower. Installing Audition Eguipment National Recording Co. has signed a contract with Air Features Inc. to equip the latter with a complete sound and play-back system. With new equipment installed, it will be possible to pipe auditions, etc., to each office individually through the aid of amplifiers, microphones and loud speakers. Zenith Radio Earnings Up Chicago — Zenith Radio Corp. net receipts for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1937, totaled $1,825,000, equal to $3.70 a share, compared to $2.46 a share earned the year before. New Transmitter Plant Is Completed by WGH Newport News, Va.— WGH, Tidewater Virginia station, has completed construction of new quarter-wave vertical radiator, and transmitter plant. Due to its location at the immediate edge of Hampton Roads, the Newport News set-up is considered one of best in the country. Salt water acts as conductor in throwing signal over the historic countryside. International Derrick Co. furnished the tower, the entire construction campaign being supervised by Chief Engineer Horace E. Slone. W. E. Band Pass Filter Now that both radio beacon signals and weather reports are put on the air simultaneously by Department of Commerce airway stations, a new unit has been devised which enables a pilot to listen exclusively to one or the other. This unit is being introduced by Western Electric for use with existing airplane radio receivers. It is known as a band pass filter and it operates by filtering out the frequencies of either the beacon signal or the weather report, permitting only one or the other to enter the receiver. Sound Effects Gadgets Chicago — Electric rain machine which NBC sound men recently built has been such a wow that they are turning out a new device to reproduce sounds of cars, motorboats, airplanes and such. It's great for points of broadcast outside studios, being easily portable. KYA Transmitter Near Ready San Francisco — KYA's new 5,000 watt transmitter at Candle-stick Point will be operating by the end of the month, according to Paul Schulz, chief engineer. KMJ on 1.000 Watts Full Time Fresno— KMJ, the McClatchy station here, last night increased its power output to 1,000 watts full time. Station has been operating on 1,000 watts daytime, 500 night. MOTION PICTURE LIGHTING AND EQUIPMENT CORP. WE FURNISH Electrical Liqhiiiin luiuifnu iit of Any Kind FOR RADIO STATIONS 244-250 WEST 49th STREET New York City Tel. CHic. 4-2074