Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

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Section of RADIO DAILY, Friday. December 23. 1949 β€” TELEVISION DAILY is fully protected by register and copyright NEW CBS COLOR TEST PLANS SET TELE TOPICS THE ABC HANDOUT heralding the reβ–  turn of "A Couple of Joes" described the show as a "television potpourrie (sic) salted with humor, crackling with odd gags and gimmicks, and flavored with popular music played by acknowledged experts in their field." Sounds good, but without casting any doubts on the veracity of the drumbeaters or their powers of observation, we want to say that just 'tain't so. The show this week was divided into two half-hour segs aired 30 minutes apart. We caught the second one and what we saw was something like this: Emcee Warren Hull reads listener requests for songs. The band, headed by Milton DeLugg, plays the number or Joan Barton sings it. If the musicians don't know the requested song, the writer gets a prize such as a year's supply of soap. That's all there is and it adds up to an informal nothing. So informal, in fact, that trumpet player Bobby Hackett left when the stanza was about ten minutes old to go to work at Nick's down in the village. . . . Hull is a glib, polished emcee and Miss Barton a most attractive lass, but they need more than what the show offers. Program's major gimmick is J. J. Morgan, a sad-cyed Basset who roams around the top of the piano totally indifferent to the proceedings around him. ... A World Video package, show is produced by Ed Kenner and directed by Eddie Nugent. D ED SMITH, sardonic sports columnist of the Herald Tribune, loosed his lethal typewriter the other day at sports announcers who describe action plainly visible to viewers and at the practice of reading aloud the sponsor's slide as it appears on the screen. Said he: "When the telecasting of sports was new, the notion was that the retreaded radio announcers employed to furnish the running comment would have to learn a new technique. They would have to acquire some respect for facts, in order to avoid glaring discrepancies between the thing seen and the thing heard. And they would have to confine their comment to collateral details not revealed in the picture, lest they offend their auditors by telling them things they could plainly see for themselves. This notion has proved grossly over-optimistic. Videots apparently do not object to the implication that they are too stupid to understand what is going on before their eyes. They don't even take offense at the advertiser's assumption that they are too ignorant to read a printed line." . . . This business of reading slide or flip-board copy has been annoying us for some time now. It may make for impact, as the Madison Ave. boys would say, but it seems that in doing so they demonstrate that their appraisal of their audience is the same as Brother Smith's. Web To Transmit Color From Three Cities, Showing Images To Public For First Time; WOR-TV, WOIC, WCAU-TV To Co-operate In Test (Continued from Page 1) WOIC and WTOP, Washington; WCAjU-TV. Philadelphia; Smith, Kline & French, Philadelphia pharmaceutical house, and AT&T and local phone companies. The test will make color airings available to segments of the general public for the first time. CBS will install 15 color sets in one or more Washington locations to which the public will have access. In New York the web plans to use members of the public as observers in tests to produce technical allocations data. Primary purpose of the New York tests is to provide the FCC with such information as the extent to which color stations in different cities on adjacent channels or on the same channels may interfere with each other, and the effect of diathermy and other interference. Another phase of next month's tests is the installation of color receivers in Washington homes so that the pictures can be observed under normal viewing conditions. CBS has offered to install color receivers in the homes of the seven FCC Commissioners. To assist laboratories and manufacturers, OBS is making all the color broadcast signals available for technical tests. It also is providing color receivers for test purposes to the FCC Laboratories in Laurel, Md., (already delivered), and to the Senate Advisory Committee on Color Television. In New York the broadcasts will be over the standard transmitters of WCBS-TV and WOR-TV. The Washington broadcasts will be carried by WOIC. Studio facilities of WTCP, CBS radio affiliate in the capital, also are to be used in the Washington operations. Broadcasts in Philadelphia, which will start after the tests in the other cities have gotten under way, will be over WCAU-TV. AT&T and the local telephone companies in New York, Washington and Philadelphia are providing extensive circuits not only for the local operations but also for intercity transmission of the color signals via coaxial cable. To Air Live And Via Film The tests, which will include both live and film programs, will be conducted during hours that will not interfere with the regular local or network broadcasting schedules of the cooperating stations. The color transmission periods will generally be scheduled to alternate with standard black and white transmissions so that installation of standard sets in homes in the three test areas can continue without interruption. Existing black and white sets will not receive the color transmission as usable pictures unless they are adapted. In Washington the live pickup equipment will be that developed by CBS for Smith, Kline & French, for demonstrations of the teaching of surgical and medical procedures before professional groups in major cities throughout the country. In New York, CBS will use color film and slide pickup equipment, together with standard black and white film and live pickup equipment, in order to study the comparative interference behavior of color and black-and-white as requested by the FCC. Press-Time Paragraphs IATSE Organizing Make-Up Artists In the first NLRB election for TV make-up and hair stylists, employes in that category at NBC this week unanimously voted IATSE Local 798 as their collective bargaining agent, the union announced yesterday. Contract negotiations will he started soon by Sal }. Scoppa. business agent of the local, which is now organizing make-up personnel at all other stations, I A said. \iw l'ilut Plant Set By Corning Glass Corning, N. Y. β€” A new pilot plant to be used initially for development of new production methods for video tubes will be Constructed here by the Corning Glass Works. Plant will be equipped with a 60-ton glass melting tank and various types of conventional and experimental glass forming and finishing machines. NBC-TV Station Dept. Set; Hickox Director Continuing its divorcement of AM and TV, NBC yesterday announced establishment of a separate TV station relations department to be headed by Sheldon B. Hickox, Jr., manager of the combined department before separation. On the staff of the new department are Thomas E. Knode, formerly assistant to Carleton D. Smith, director of tele operations; E. B. Lyford, Stephen A. Flynn and Robert J. Guthrie, station relations execs. Hickox joined NBC in 1929, shortly after graduation from Amherst. In 1931 he became assistant sales traffic manager and in 1933 was named supervisor of commercial traffic. Two years later he was named assistant manager of station relations and in 1939 took over management of the department. Johnson Will Describe Filming With 3 Cameras The three-camera technique used by Jerry Fairbanks, Inc., in the production of low-cost video films will be described by Russ Johnson, vicepresident of that organization when he addresses the distribution session of the National Television Film Council's third quarterly forum to be held Dec. 28 at the Hotel Astor. John Mitchell, of UA Television, who also is distribution chairman of NTFC, will head the morning session on production. He will discuss the availability of bank financing for television films. Strahorn Joining Y&R Lee Strahorn, indie radio producer, will join Young & Rubicam to handle production on the Fred Waring TV show, it was announced by Everard W. Meade, radio-tele chief of the agency. Strahorn previously was with NBC and Foote. Cone & Belding. He will leave California for New York Dec. 28. Cassyd Elected By ATAS Hollywood β€” Syd Cassyd has been elected president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, succeeding Harry Lubcke. James Vandiveer and H. L. Hoffman were named vice presidents; Robert Packham. treasurer; Betty Mears, secretary; Mark Finley. corresponding secretary, and Dick Lane, recording secretary.