Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1954)
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I to us that "the pictures are coming in like a local." Station goes commercial Sept.
I 25 as CBS primary, with some ABC & DuMont. Paul Tiemer is New England sales mgr. ;
' John T. Madigan, program mgr. ; Parker Vincent, chief engineer. Base rate is $300. Rep is Harrington, Righter & Parsons.
WMVT, Montpelier, Vt. (Ch. 3), second New England mountain-top installation to get going this week, began 8 hours of test patterns daily on Sept. 3, will soon go commercial with headquarters in new studio-offices in Burlington and Montpelier studios at radio WSKI. Like Mt. Washington's WMTW (above), it will be primary CBS, but it will also carry other 3 networks. Also like Mt. Washington, it expects signal to reach into Canada as well as over contiguous N.Y. & N.H. GE 5-kw transmitter has 4-bay antenna on 50-ft. Blaw-Knox tower atop 4393-ft. Mt. Mansfield, state's highest peak. Owner is C.P. Hasbrook, with Stuart T. Martin, ex-RCA & Sylvania, as v.p.-gen. mgr. ; John A. Dobson, sales mgr. ; Richard G. Huntley, production mgr. ; James W. Tierney, chief engineer. Base hour is $250. Rep is Weed.
KO'^/R, Stockton, Cal. (Ch. 13), with transmitter on 3849-ft. Mt. Diablo and designed to cover San Francisco Bay area, began test patterns Aug. 29 and is due to go commercial Sept. 6 as independent outlet. Built on site of old Eitel-McCullough FM plant, it's 30 mi. from San Francisco, 35 mi. from Stockton studios, uses 25-kw , RCA transmitter and 325-ft. self-supporting Blaw-Knox tower with 12-bay antenna. It ,1 is controlled by H. Leslie Hoffman, Los Angeles TV-radio manufacturer, with Eimac
I holding minority interest. Plan is to compete directly with San Francisco's 4 vhf i' and one uhf outlet, as well as Stockton's one vihf. A.E. Joscelyn, ex-CBS Hollywood,
is v.p. & gen. mgr. ; Joe Fisher, sales mgr. ; Wm. Hollenbeck, program mgr. ; S.D. Bennett, chief engineer. Base hour is $700. Rep is Blair.
WCMB-TV, Harrisburg, Pa. (Ch. 27), third station in uhf-only capital city, goes on regular schedule Sept. 8 after starting with test patterns Sept. 2. It will replace WTPA-TV as DuMont affiliate. It has the 12-kw GE transmitter of now-defunct WXLO-TV, Louisville, with 385-ft. tower and 5-bay antenna on Blue Mt., next to that of WTPA-TV (Ch. 71). Area has no uhf problem, reports v.p.-gen. mgr. Edgar K. Smith, with 90% of homes having TV sets and all of them capable of uhf reception. Edgar T. Shepard Jr. is pres, and 2/3 owner. Chief engineer is J. Howard Blair. Base rate is $250. Rep is Donald Cooke.
KSWM-TV, Joplin, Mo. (Ch. 12) began testing Aug. 26 and has had "reception reports from a wide area," wires owner-gen. mgr. Austin A. Harrison who is integrating it with his AM operation and expects to begin regular programming Sept. 12 as CBS affiliate. Nearest other outlet in area is KOAM-TV, Pittsburg, Kan. (Ch. 7),
25 mi. away; it's 68 mi. from Springfield, Mo., with 2 stations. RCA 10-kw transmit<1 ter is used, 400-ft. tower. Base rate is $200. Rep is Venard, Rintoul & McConnell.
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CKLW-TV, Windsor, Ont . (Ch. 9), across the river from Detroit's 3 stations,
I I began 2 hours daily of test patterns Sept. 3 after intermittent test signals that started Aug. 30. Programming starts Sept. 16 with CBC and DuMont shows. It's 8th privately owned station of the 14 now on air in Canada, only one with maximum 325-kw visual power. It has 25-kw RCA transmitter & 650-ft. tower located on waterfront, is said to represent $1,250,000 investment. J.E. (Ted) Campeau, veteran broadcaster
I well known in U.S. radio circles, is pres. -gen. mgr. ; E. Wilson Wardell, commercial i mgr. ; Norman Hawkins, national sales mgr. ; S, Campbell Ritchie, operations director;
I W.J. Carter, chief engineer. Base rate is $1100. Reps are Adam Young and All-Canada.
! THREE CPs INCLUDE TAMPA Ch. 13 REVERSAL: "Diversification" and program plans domi
' natedFCC's reasoning in this week's final decision which reversed examiner's ruling in Tampa Ch. 13 case — while 2 other CPs and an initial decision were issued.
The grants : Tampa, Fla., Tampa Television Co. (WALT 20% stockholder), Ch. 13 ; Grand Rapids, Mich. , Peninsular Bcstg. Co., Ch. 23; Huntington, W.Va. . WHTN, Ch. 13. Initial decision favored WREC over WMPS for Ch. 3 in Memphis, Tenn.
Commission spanked examiner Basil Cooper rather vigorously in reversing him in Tampa case; he had picked WDAE-Times. saying W. Walter Tison, operator of WALT,
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