Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

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Section of RADIO DAILY, Friday. October 21, 1949 — TELEVISION DAILY is fully protected by register and copyright PHILCO AND DuMONT AIDING C.T.I. TELE TOPICS /"\NCE AGAIN we doff our lid to ABC for giving a top-notch writer a free hand in building a TV series — a step which the other webs seem reluctant to take. Several months ago it was Wyllis Cooper's exciting "Volume 1, Numbers 1-6," and now Arch Oboler has come along with his Comedy Theater. We think Cooper's series made several important contributions to the maturity of TV drama; we hope he'll return very soon. After seeing one of Oboler's initial efforts Tuesday nite, we feel that he too is a man the medium sorely needs. . . . "Love, Love, Love" was the title of the Oboler play this week. Beginning with a lecture by an elderly professor on the various definitions of love, program showed the day-dreamed interpretations of these varied meanings by several students. There were six such sequences; one was hilarious, one was very funny, one was funny and the other three continued the descending progression. Oboler was at his best when writing about Hollywood and its people, the funniest sequence being an excellent broad satire on a movie love scene. The honeymoon of two movie stars was next best, we thought, followed by a Tin Pan Alley interpretation, sung by Benny Rubin. ... An MCA package, program originates in Los Angeles and is seen here on recording, quality of which is as bad as all the other off-the-tube footage. • THE FOLLOWING LETTER was re' ceived yesterday from John V. L. Hogan, and we are printing it here to obtain the reaction of the rest of our readers to Mr. Hogan's suggestion. "I note in your column, and elsewhere in RADIO DAILY," he writes, "an increasing tendency to contrast 'Video' (or TV) against 'Radio' (meaning AM or FM sound radio). Remembering your efforts to find a good name for sound-on-film recordings of TV programs, I think you might be interested in straightening out the confusion that such use of the terms 'Video' and 'Radio' is bound to cause. Television is radio, just as much as AM or FM is; without radio transmission of sound and pictures, we could not have TV. If you want a different word for AM-FM sound alone, and a term to contrast against 'Video,' why not adopt the good old word, 'Audio?" • A LTHOUGH BUICK IS CANCELLING ■** the Olsen b Johnson show after next week's airer, it still is committed for the time on NBC but is trying to get out of it. . . . Faye Emerson begins a chatter and interview show on WCBS-TV Monday nite for Ansonia, in the seg Diana Barrymore was supposed to have started last week. . . . Leonard Hole, formerly with DuMont and CBS, departed this week for a vacation in Cuba and Jamaica and will announce his future plans when he returns in three or four weeks. Short-Neck 16 Tube Developed By RCA Harrison, N. J. — New 16" metal picture tube five and one half inches shorter than present kinescopes for 16 inch sets was announced yesterday by the tube department of RCA. The new kinescope, which will for the first time utilize an RCA "filterglass," face plate for greater picture contrast, is expected to make possible more compact chassis and more flexible cabinet design in receivers that will be available next year. The new tube designated the RCA16GP4, will be supplied in limited quantities to makers of receivers in December. Appreciable quantities will be available early next year, company officials revealed. The new tube, is 17 and 1/8 inches long, which compares to 22 V2 inches of the present 16-inch tube and 18 inches of the widely used 10-inch utbe. American Oil To Sponsor Navy-Notre Dame On CBS The American Oil Company, Baltimore, will sponsor CBS coverage of the Navy-Notre Dame game from Babe Ruth Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, Saturday. Red Barber will broadcast the play-by-play commentary. Agency is The Joseph Katz Company. Game will be carried over stations in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D. C, Boston, Cleveland and Erie, Pa. Rogers Seg Held Up By Dearth Of Talent A severe shortage of variety acts that have not been worn out in the public eye through too many appearances on TV, has pushed back the opening of the "Buddy Rogers Showcase" stanza on ABC two months, Mai Boyd, producer of the show, reported yesterday. Originally scheduled to debut Nov. 2, show will not go on the air until Jan. 4, Boyd said. Decision to postpone the preem was made yesterday, Boyd said, at a meeting between Rogers, Bud Barry, ABC programming veepee, and himself, after three weeks of auditions had failed to unearth enough acts to fill one show. More than 50 acts were seen, Boyd said, adding that three installments had to be lined up before the kickoff. Most of the more than 50 acts seen, he said, had been seen several times on network shows using the same routine. On weekends. Boyd said, he and Rogers will travel to cities on the Eastern seaboard in search of talent, with Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Boston and Providence among the first stops. Rogers, however, will continue his across-the-board AM stanza. "Pick A Date" on ABC. Arthur Knight Named Arthur Knight has been appointed chairman of the film, television and radio department of the Dramatic Workshop and Technical Institute at the President Theater, New York. RCA Asks FCC To Postpone Tests Of Color -TV Systems (Continued ready for demonstration and the prospect that CTT might be able to participate in comparative tests here were all advanced as reasons. RCA officials said the cross-examination slated for December, need not be held off. The petition said: "The only purpose of demonstrations, comparative or otherwise, is to demonstrate to the Commission the principles and operating charcteristics of the color television systems which have been proposed. If a comparative demonstration is to be held and is to accomplish its purpose, the demonstration must be from Page 1) ■made with apparatus which will fairly reflect the principles and operating characteristics of the various systems, must provide an opportunity for the parties to demonstrate their systems with comparable types of receivers and must provide an opportunity for all proponents of color television systems to demonstrate their systems simultaneously. Unless these basic requirements are met, no useful purpose will have been served. To conduct comparative demonstrations on any other basis would not provide a fair hearing to the parties concerned." iVoti? Co-Operating On Direct-View Color Tubes Washington Bureau of RADIO DAI I A' Washington — The FCC yesterday was told that both DuMont and Philco are co-operating with Color Television, Inc., on problems of circuit design and development of direct-view color tubes. The disclosure came from Samuel Burrows Smith, CTI attorney, in response to a question from Commissioner Robert F. Jones concerning the extent of outside aid CTT has sought. RMA attorney Edward Wheeler appeared to confirm the CTI statement. He said two RMA members "have gone to CTI to help them build a direct view tube." Possibility that a tube might be ready for the CTT demonstration to the FCC late next month was voiced this week by Dr. George Sleeper, inventor of the CTI system. Smith said, "our tube expert is here from San Francisco to confer with the DuMont people. Two of Philco's experts will be in San Francisco Monday to confer with our people." DuMont plans to build 20 direct-view color tubes from samples submitted by CTT, a spokesman said — but it is not at all certain that any of these will be ready next month. Jones again sought to get CTT to bring its equipment here, but the company spokesmen maintained their position that it was not physically possible to do so. Earlier Col. D. K. Lippincott, for CTI, had declared that the problem of flicker is still not solved in TV, and the objective now is to make the best compromise between flicker and color. Said he, "We are fighting the battle between color resolutions and flicker in all these proposed systems. If you are going to eliminate flicker, you've got so far away you can't see the pictures at all." Lippincott is expected to conclude his testimony Monday, although he may have to be in San Francisco. If he is not on hand, consulting engineer Frank H. Mcintosh will be heard for CTI. Capehart Sales Up Dollar volume sales of the 1950 line of Capehart TV receivers were up 314 per cent during September, compared with the same month a year ago, it has been announced by Capehart Farnsworth Corporation, Fort Wayne, a subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Demand for the new line continues unabated, the firm said.