Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronic reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1954
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1954)
Leaf #:
000155
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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3 Time-Life group would then have 3 TV-radio properties, others being 50% of KOB-TV & KOB, Albuquerque (Wayne Coy owns other 50%) and 75% of KDYL-TV & KDYL, Salt Lake City (G. Bennett Larson 25%). Springfield properties are owned by pres. Wm. Dwight and family (two-thirds) and v.p.-mgr. Charles De Rose and family (one-third). Each group's holdings in the station would be halved after sale is approved. Purchaser is Republican Television Inc. , owned by the Republican Daily News Employes Beneficial Fund and Springfield Union Employes Beneficial Fund. President of Funds is Paul F. Craig, editor of the Union. Though De Roses own Northampton Daily Gazette and Dwights own Holyoke Transcript, neither has any ownership in the two Springfield newspapers whose employes' pension funds are buying 50%. WHYN-TV operates on Ch. 55. has CBS & DuMont affiliations, was one of first uhfs to get 12-kw transmitter. Uhf set sales and conversions in the area have been quite respectable, both numerically and percentage-wise. 4: * * * Multi-millionaire Hunt, in news lately because of his backing of Senator McCarthy, is to receive $5608 from McLendons for out-of-pocket expenses of getting CP. Hunt shows net worth of $8,182,000 as of May 31, 1952, says there's been no substantial change since that date. Decision of Youngstown Vindicator to buy CP for WUTV's Ch. 21 and switch from Ch. 73 is attributed directly to technical problems, principally those involving receivers. Filing with FCC, Vindicator said; "Considerable technical difficulty has been encountered in the WFMJ-TV Ch. 73 operation, which will not be encountered on Ch, 21. Many serious complaints of poor reception have been received from viewers in this area which are due to poor receiver sensitivity, high loss transmission lines, unstable oscillators, and other receiver problems directly attributable to the extremely high frequency of Ch. 73. Oscillator tubes in many instances are not only unstable, but very short lived. The life of oscillator tubes has in numerous cases been only a few weeks." Vindicator is paying Polan Industries $76,612 — $51,612 for equipment that Polan has bought, $25,000 for organizational and other expenses. WFMJ-TV requests that it be permitted to operate on Ch. 73 until transfer is approved and modification of site is obtained so that there will be no lapse in service. It says it could put Ch. 21 in operation with new 1000-ft. tower 2-4 weeks after FCC approval. 2 CPs GRANTED, MORE PERMITS DROPPED: All FCC's grants this week were vhf . including 2 CPs and an initial decision — one of the CPs going to a uhf grantee in nearby town who simultaneously dropped uhf CP. This week's grants: Great Bend, Kan., Central Kansas TV Co., Ch. 2; Carthage. N.Y., WWNY (Watertown, N.Y.), Ch. 7. Initial decision set up KTUL, Tulsa, for CP on Ch. 8. WWNY was station dropping uhf CP for Ch. 48 in Watertown. Other CPs cancelled by grantees this week; Poughkeepsie. N.Y. , WEOK-TV, Ch. 21; Durham , N . C . . WCIG-TV, Ch. 46 ; Lewistown, Pa. , WMRF-TV, Ch. 38. Several more applicants were lined up for CPs soon when competitors dropped out of hearing, leaving the survivors ready for initial decisions. The survivors; Lexington. Ky. , WLEX, Ch. 18; Bangor. Me.. WGUY, Ch. 2; Las Vegas, Nev. . KRAM, Ch. 13; Spokane, Wash., KSPO, Ch. 2. * ♦ * * FCC Chairman Rosel Hyde showed he means business in his aim to speed final decisions in contested cases. (Vol. 10:6). To strengthen the Office of Opinions & Review, the FCC's decision-writing corps, the following experienced attorneys were detailed from broadcast bureau; Herbert Schulkind, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Arthur Feld William Jensen, Forest McClenning. Among other actions. FCC this week; (1) Denied protests against site move of WORD-TV, Spartanburg (Vol. 10:8), filed by WGVL, Greenville (Ch. 23) and WAIM-TV, Anderson (Ch. 40). (2) Allowed KSTM-TV. St. Louis (Ch. 36) into the Ch. 11 hearing' there, adding as an issue question whether station has right to comparative hearing for Ch. 11 while it is operating Ch. 36 at same time.