Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1954)
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Easternmost North American TV station, nearest to Europe if ever a Transatlantic relay system is devised, will be CJCB-TV, Sydney, Nova Scotia (Ch. 4), whose DuMont studio equipment is due for shipment May 15, presumably coincident with an as yet unannounced 10-kw RCA transmitter & antenna. Owned by N. Nathanson, to be operated by sons Marvin and Norris, CJCB-TV has Aug. 15 target, will be represented by Weed and AllCanada. At present, farthest east station on continent is CSHJ-TV, St. John, N.B. (Ch. 4), which began testing March 22 (Vol. 10:12).
DuMont also reports orders for 25-kw transmitter from John Boler’s KXJB-TV, Valley City, N. D. (Ch. 4), and 5-kw from WDXI-TV, Jackson, Tenn. (Ch. 9) — both due on air sometime in July. Mr. Boler is also operator of KCJB-TV, Minot, N. D. (Ch. 13).
RCA this week shipped 10-kw transmitter to upcoming educational non-commercial WGBH-TV, Boston (Ch. 2), last reporting Oct. debut date, and 5-kw to educational KETC, St. Louis (Ch. 9), due on air in June. Week’s only shipment reported by GE was new 3-bay Ch. 5 antenna to KTLA, Los Angeles.
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In our continuing survey of upcoming new stations, these were the reports received this week:
Buffalo’s Ch. 2 grantee of last week, Buffalo-Niagara Amusement Corp., signed basic NBC affiliation this week, promised to be ready by June. It has applied to FCC for permission to take over radio WGR and, if granted, plans to ask for WGR-TV call. Niagara Falls Gazette has option to buy 25%. President of large stockholders group is George F. Goodyear, investments (10%), with Myron Kirk, senior v.p., Kudner Agency, as v.p. and largest single stockholder (10.66%). Joe Bernard, onetime mgr. of KOMA, Oklahoma City, recently associated with Kenyon Browm, will be gen. mgr. of new station, with WGR exec, v.p. Karl G. Hoffman as engineering mgr. [For full list of present stockholders, see TV Factbook No. 18, p. 218.] Peninsula Television Inc., last week’s grantee for Ch. 6 in Marquette, Mich., hasn’t ordered equipment or begun construction, but plans Oct. start, according to pres.-gen. mgr. Jerome Sill. He also owns 25% of WMIL, Milwaukee, TV applicant for Ch. 6 in nearby Whitefish Bay. Rep not yet chosen.
WCNY-TV, Carthage, N. Y. (Ch. 7), planning late summer debut, got call letters just last week, starts construction as soon as weather permits at Champion Rd. site, 6 mi. west of Carthage and 9 mi. east of Watertown where it gave up Ch. 48 CP for proposed WWNY-TV (Vol. 10:10). It will use 20-kw GE transmitter and 12-bay GE antenna atop 500-ft. guyed tower, expects to cover northern N. Y. and “large area in Canada.” Owned by Watertown Times, it will be CBS primary interconnected, also will carry ABC. Rep will be Weed.
WISH-TV, Indianapolis (Ch. 8) has 50-kw RCA transmitter ordered for June 15 delivery, expects to meet July 1 programming target, according to v.p.-gen. mgr. Robert B. McConnell. Transmitter house ready, it’s now adding 3-story addition to studios. Interim 473-ft. Ideco tower is scheduled for completion by May 1, with 12-bay RCA antenna. Network will be ABC, base hour rate $800. Rep will be Bolling.
KTVX, Muskogee, Okla. (Ch. 8), granted last week, hasn’t finalized construction plans but has ordered GE equipment and hopes to get on air by mid-summer, reports v.p.-gen. mgr. L. A. Blust Jr., ex-mgr. of radio KTUL, Tulsa, which has same control (John T. Griffin). E. Snider, KTUL chief engineer, and George Ketcham, promotion mgr., have also moved to TV. Muskogee is 44 air miles from Tulsa, but KTVX transmitter will be north of Haskell, about half way. Avery-Knodel will be rep.
KLTV, Tyler, Tex. (Ch. 7), call letters changed from KGKB-TV, has ordered 10-kw RCA transmitter with 12-bay antenna to go atop 420-ft. Andrews tower, all due for June deliveries so that test target has been tentatively set for Aug. 1, commercial debut Aug. 15. It will be first vhf in rich oil & cattle area, nearest others being in Dallas, 92 mi. to west, and Shreveport, 100 mi. east. Owner Mrs. Lucille Ross Lansing has acquired hangar and office space at former airport on edge of town, providing 12,500 sq. ft., which is being designed into a TV-Radio Center. Marshall Pengra, ex-KGKB mgr., recently mgr. of KSTM-TV, St. Louis, is returning to Tyler to run KLTV, with Hudson Collins as chief engineer and Jerry Lansing managing KGKB and coordinating TV-AM operations. No rep has yet been selected.
KLIX-TV, Twin Falls, Ida. (Ch. 11), proceeding slowly to keep costs down, won’t make May target, probably will get on air next Aug., reports v.p.-gen. mgr. Frank
G. McIntyre. Transmitter is being custom built in Salt Lake City workshop operated jointly by all Frank Carman stations. KLIX-TV has published $120 base rate, has 2 fulltime salesmen out selling time in advance. Rep will be Hollingbery, who may include it under “group market plan” along with 5 other stations with interlocking ownership— KOPR-TV, Butte, Mont. (Ch. 4); and upcoming KUTV, Salt Lake City (Ch. 2), KWIK-TV, Pocatello (Ch. 10), KIFT-TV, Idaho Falls (Ch. 8), KFXD-TV, NampaBoise (Ch. 6).
KHOF, Stockton, Cal. (Ch. 13) now has July 15 test target for 25-kw transmitter with 12-bay antenna on order from RCA, plans Aug. 1 programming, reports pres.
H. L. Hoffman, TV manufacturer. He’s given up plan to utilize Radio Diablo’s KSBR building for TV studios, has leased former auto agency building with 15,000 sq. ft. Tower will be on 3849-ft. Mt. Diablo, from which good signal is expected into San Francisco area. Rep not yet chosen.
WBOC-TV, Salisbury, Md. (Ch. 16), construction slowed by wind and rain, now plans May 15 start reports v.p.-gen. mgr. Charles J. Truitt. It will use 1-kw RCA transmitter, 600-ft. Wind Turbine tower, is building own microwave tower at East New Market, Md. to deliver ABC & DuMont, will also carry Baltimore Orioles games. Base hour will be $200. Burn-Smith will be rep.
Transfer of CP for Atlantic City’s WOCN (Ch. 52) from Matta Enterprises to David E. Mackey for $10,446 was approved this week by FCC. In petition to FCC, partners Wm. G. & G. C. Matta, real estate & coal stripping operators, said they intend to devote efforts to pursuing their application for Braddock, Pa. Ch. 4 (allocated to Irwin, Pa.) and said they have been “unable to obtain the high power [10-kw] uhf transmitter [necessary to] successful uhf operations in Atlantic City.” Mackey is former Toledo TV distributor and onetime salesman for KDKA, Pittsburgh, and WBZ-TV, Boston.
Production of TV transmitter filters for reduction of spurious and harmonic emissions (Vol. 9:24) has been started by RCA, shipments beginning in May. No charge will be made for filters for transmitters shipped since July 1, 1953. For others, prices are: Ch. 2-6, 10 kw, $950; Ch. 7-13, 10 kw, $760; Ch. 2-6, 50 kw, $1700; Ch. 7-13, 50 kw, $1350; Ch. 14-43, 15 kw, $525; Ch. 44-83, 15 kw, $525. Vhf transmitters require two filters, uhf stations one.
Community antenna systems are classified as public utilities, Wyoming Attorney General Howard B. Black advised Public Service Commission in case involving Community TV Systems of Wyoming Inc., Casper, Wyo. (Bill Daniels, pres.). Immediate effect is to require Casper system to charge 2% sales tax for service, as do other utilities.