Radio and television today (Jan-Nov 1941)

chairman. RMA negotiations tor ad ditional nickel, needed Eor tubes and folurae controls, are proceeding, and an industry nickel conference with OPM is scheduled shortly. Television Audience Grows Commercial television emerged Erom the first month of operation with considerable progress to its credit. NBC got its fourth sponsor for station WNBT in New York, a fashion show for Thursday afternoons beginning Sept. 4th, and went ahead with spectacular programming Eor an audience that is getting up to around 100,000. Field engineers are still busy changing the sets over to the new standards. For some 570,000 residents of the Albany-Troy-Schenectady area in New York, commercial television came closer when General Electric got a grant from the FCC to operate W2XB, New Scotland, N. Y., commercially beginning Sept. 1. GE will experiment with color here. Allen B. Du Mont is now demonstrating a new use for television by using a table model televisor on his cabin cruiser. He reports good pictures at distances of 50 miles or more. Check-up on Where Radio Parts Go Organized action has been started on the matter of getting better priority ratings for the radio parts industry, by the Sales Managers Club, Western Group, with headquarters at 77 W. Washington St., Chicago. The Group has appointed a priorities committee to engage in a three-fold effort to improve the ratings for (1) the parts industry in general. (2) parts to be used to maintain existing receivers, and (3) parts which go directly or indirectly into Defense Supplies. A vital part of the effort is the keeping of accurate records of all sales of parts. All purchasers of parts and accessories are urged to follow this procedure : (1) Find out from your customer what use will be made of the merchandise; (2) If it is sold to a government agency or is destined to find its way into Defense Supplies then get: (a) the contract number, or (b) a preference rating, or (c) if there is no number or rating, then get the customers' affidavit that the merchandise is being used for Defense Supplies; and (3) When you place an order with a manufacturer for component parts to replace merchandise sold "off-your-shelves" or being used by you in the completion of a defense contract, be sure to attach to the order, the contract number, the preference rating or the customers' affidavits. It is believed that the cooperation of everyone in the business may enable Here are a couple of hefties hooked by the Admiral radio president, Ross D. Siragusa, shown here between the catch and the guide, Shelby Cleveland. It all happened off the Florida west coast, where the Continental Radio head recently went fishing with his wife, who is likewise an expert angler. manufacturers to get more of the needed materials, and to make more prompt deliveries to those who sell parts. Radio Census Further Delayed Delays in the U.S. Census Bureau's schedules have again held up the issuance of the 1940 census of homes with radio by states and counties, which were originally scheduled for issuance, one by one, during the early summer. According to Broadcasting, these radio-homes reports will now not start Ernest Alschuler RMA Membe Sentinel chief, heads rship Committee. until September. They will appear one state at a time, but no order of issuance has been decided upon nor is it expected that all of the 48 state releases will be ready until early in 1942. The radio reports will show the number of radio homes for each state for urban and rural areas, for counties and for ui'ban places having a population of 2,500 or more, as well as for metropolitan districts. They will parallel the housing figures already issued by states and now available from the Census Bureau. After the State by State radio reports have been issued as press releases, they will be incorporated in a final report titled "Second Series: General Characteristics," but this report will not be available until early in 1942. Pennsylvania Bill Aimed at Employes' Wholesale Buying Legislators in the state of Pennsylvania have taken action to outlaw the practice of wholesale buying by employes. Reports from Harrisburg are that the Senate has sent to the Governor "the Cohen Bill" which will stop "employers from directly or indirectly offering for sale ... to employes or others any merchandise not produced by the employers, and not handled in their regular course of business." The purpose of the new bill is to prohibit the use of purchasing agents by employers, to buy at wholesale and to sell to employes. The clause "directly or indirectly" is regarded as important, as it has been the practice of some employers to set up companysponsored shops, and then to deny that such establishments are officially connected with the firm. AUGUST, 7941 II