Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1954)
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Four transmitter shipments to upcoming and existing stations were reported this week by RCA: 10-kw transmitter was shipped Sept. 24 to WTVW, Milwaukee (Ch. 12), which has Oct. target; 12y2-kw amplifiers went Sept. 27 to WTPA, Harrisburg, Pa. (Ch. 71) and Sept. 30 to WARM-TV, Scranton (Ch. 16) ; 26-kw transmitter Sept. 27 to WATE, Knoxville (Ch. 7). GE shipped antenna Sept. 27 to upcoming KVOO-TV, Tulsa (Ch. 2) ; 35-kw transmitter follows later.
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In our continuing survey of upcoming TV stations, these are the latest reports received from principals :
KVOO-TV, Tulsa (Ch. 2), its 35-kw GE transmitter due to arrive about Oct. 5, plans late Nov. tests, programming in early Dec., reports gen. mgr. C. B. (Brownie) Akers. Principals are oilmen Wm. Skelly and Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D-Okla.), latter with family also controlling WEEK-TV, Peoria, 111. Self-supporting 200-ft. Blaw-Knox tower will be used while 1052-ft. tower, scheduled to be ready by next March, is being built. Studios will be in remodeled former Akdar Shrine Building at 311 1/2 South Denver St. Rep not yet chosen.
WUNC-TV, Chapel Hill, N. C. (Ch. 4, educational), now plans Oct. 15-20 test patterns, programming late in Oct., writes TV director Robert F. Schenkkan. It has begun installation of 25-kw RCA transmitter, has 800-ft. tower and 6-bay antenna ready. Grantee U of North Carolina plans to have mobile unit and studios at Chapel Hill, State College, Raleigh and N. C. Women’s College, Greensboro — each with 2 cameras and film chain — linked by microwave to Chapel Hill transmitter.
WKDN-TV, Camden, N. J. (Ch. 17, allocated to Philadelphia), which planned operation as low-cost community station making it possible for “local industrial, retail and service establishments to buy TV advertising” (Vol. 10:7), is now in “indefinite” status, reports gen. mgr. Gordon Giffen. It recently got CP extension to March. Rep not chosen.
WPTR-TV, Albany, N. Y. (Ch. 23), and WRNY-TV, Rochester, N. Y. (Ch. 27), recently got CP extensions to next Feb. and “present indications are that we will go ahead with our TV permit at Albany as well as Rochester,” writes J. Meyer Schine of Schine chain theatres, holding 55% of WPTR-TV & 50% of WRNY-TV. Orders for equipment haven’t been reported, nor have reps been chosen.
Long-pending merger of Pocatello, Ida. TV grantees was approved Sept. 29 by FCC. Reporting no consideration involved, TribuneJournal Co. (Robert S. Howard), holding Ch. 6 CP with CBS affiliation, and Eastern Idaho Bcstg. & TV Co. (James M. Brady-Frank Carman-Grant Wrathall group), holding Ch. 10 CP with ABC affiliation, will be equal owners of new Pocatello Television Corp. Ch. 10 CP will be dropped, with KWIK-TV call letters retained. Eastern’s license for radio KWIK (1-kw, 1440 kc, ABC-MBS) also will be turned in, but KWIK call letters will be retained for use by Tribune-Journal’s KJRL facilities (250-w, 1240 kc, CBS).
AP Radio & TV Assn, was formed this week by Associated Press as outgrowth of its old Radio Member Committee. Nationwide organization of AP’s more than 1300 member stations was announced by Les Mawhinney, KHJTV & KHJ, Los Angeles, ex-chairman of Radio Member Committee, who was elected pres, of new assn, by committee members. Each member station will appoint one member, according to new bylaws, which provide for 4 regional districts to be represented on board of directors. The 7 Radio Committee members will serve on first board, vacancies to be filled by elections to be held within the next 11 months.
WTLC, Urbana, 111. (Ch. 12, educational), expects GE 12-bay antenna about Nov. 20, won’t set target dates until it’s on hand, writes director Fi-ank E. Schooley. It already has demonstrator 5-kw transmitter donated by GE, plans temporary installation of antenna atop U of Illinois stadium in Champaign. Blaw-Knox tower it bought from WTMJ, Milwaukee, has been erected at Robert Allerton Park near Monticello, 111.; it will be used first for University’s FM operation, later may also be used for TV.
KCOR-TV, San Antonio, Tex. (Ch. 41) , hasn’t specified delivery date for 1-kw RCA transmitter and other equipment, but now expects to start programming about Feb. 1. Emsco 406-ft. tower with RCA antenna is scheduled to be ready early in Dec. It will be all-Spanish outlet, using films and kines from Mexico and other Latin-American countries, as well as U. S. KCOR-TV base hour is tentatively set at 8300. Rep will be Richard O’Connell.
KMIV, Miami, Okla. (Ch. 58), is in “indefinite status,” waiting developments on uhf & satellites, writes 25% owner Kenyon Brown, who operates KWFT-TV, Wichita Falls (Ch. 6), and has interest in KMBY-TV, Monterey, Cal. (Ch. 8). Equipment order hasn’t been reported, nor has rep.
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CHEX-TV, Peterborough, Ont. (Ch. 12), building foundation and footings ready, is due to receive 10-kw RCA transmitter Jan. 1. Canadian Bridge Ltd. promises completion of 400-ft. tower with 12-slot wavestack antenna Jan. 15. Station now plans Feb. 15 test patterns, according to H. S. Freeman, station supervisor for Northern Bcstg. Co. Ltd., which operates radio pi’operties for owners Sen. W. R. Davies and R. H. Thompson. For same owners, Northern also is building CKWS-TV, Kingston, Ont. (Ch. 11), which has Oct. target. Sen. Davies publishes Peterborough Examiner and Kingston Whig-Standard; Mr. Thompson is chain newspaper publisher. Reps will be Weed and All-Canada.
First Canadian small-town TV grant was recommended by CBC Board of Governoi-s for radio CKBB, Barrie, Ont., 55 mi. north of Toronto — 13th Canadian station authorization outstanding. An additional 16 stations are on air. Ralph T. Snelgrove, owner-mgr. of CKBB, reports he plans new studio-transmitter building on 1027-ft. hill, 1 mi. south of Barrie. Equipment hasn’t been ordered. Canadian rep will be Paul Mulvihill & Co.
Control of KSCJ-TV, Pueblo, Colo. (Ch. 5), with KSCJ (1-kw, 590 kc, MBS) passed from Douglas D. Kahle (67%) and Robert L. Clinton Jr. (33%) to Bankers Life & Casualty Co., Chicago, with FCC approval of transfer Sept. 29. Bankers Life will take over all assets, holds secured bonds worth $323,000, Kahle remaining as mgr. with option to buy back 25% if managerial contract is extended for 5 years after first year (Vol. 10:35). Big insurance company bought KGA, Spokane, last year from Louis Wasmer, who holds CP for KREM-TV there (Ch. 2). Other FCC action this week was approval of Campbell-Tx-endle’s sale of radio WTAC, Flint, Mich, for $287,000 to Radio Hawaii Inc., after turning in CP for WTAC-TV (Ch. 16), which left air April 16, 1954 (Vol. 10:31-32).
N. L. Bentson’s WMIN-TV, St. Paul Minneapolis (Ch. 11), which shares time with WTCN-TV, is selling independent WMIN (250-w, 1400 kc), together with WMINFM, for $75,000 to Franklin Bcstg. Co., according to papers filed with FCC this week. Price is for license, transmitter equipment and fixtures; land and building are to be leased at $6000 annually, with proviso to buy at end of 5 years. Papers repoi't WMIN grossing $165,000 for year ending July 31. Franklin Bcstg. is controlled by Wm. F. Johns family.