Radio showmanship (Jan-Dec 1946)

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Jlllllllllllll FRONT ROW-CENTER 1 1 1 1 1 llllllllllllllll|i< Tele-Coverage of Penn Football Home Games and Other Sporting Events Develop Techniques Which Promise Viewers Ringside Plus by DON McCLURE, television bureau, N. W. Ager ^ Son, Inc. FINDING and affording the best seat at an athletic event is a hixury permitted to the few. Television puts an end to this unintentional class distinction. The best spot for football is usually on the 50-yard line. In baseball, unless you like to sit behind home-plate, somewhere along the first or third baseline is the most satisfactory. Needless to say, the grandstand at the fniish line in racing comes as a top spot for a photo-finish. All sporting events have their front row center seats. Unfortunately there are not enough to go around. Television offers the best seat in the house. At the track, on the field, or in the stadium, with the multiple use of cameras, every play is performed before your front row-center seat. Far-seeing baseball clidj owners ha\ c already called in consulting engineers to survey their parks for the best possible camera locations. Early experimental telecasts of our national sport has shown that two cameras along the first or third baseline are not adequate for a good coverage via television. U a wide angle shot, taking in the entire field is used, the ball and players become so small on the recei\ ing screen that all IIMMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII • Televiewers follow play-by-play close-ups of the Penn-Navy game, 1945. JULY 946