Television digest and FM reports (Sept-Dec 1945)

benefit by attracting customers to its outdated, out-of-the-way shopping location. Leased line v/ill link store with DuMont Madison Ave. transmitter and studios. Intra-store TV setup also presumably contemplated. Basic architectural plan calls for one 4-camera, one 3-camera, one 2-camera studio, the first to accommodate 700 spectators. Plan is to have plant completed by December, to call it Television Center and to carry some 28 hours of live talent shows from its studios v/eekly. COLOH VS. MOHOCHSOME; So completely confident is CBS of the superiority of its color television in the ultra-high band, that you can expect the network to continue unabated its virtually lone campaign for TV in color on the now-experimental spaces of 480-920 me. CBS is so sure of its ultimate position it may itself even go into manufacture of receiving sets capable of picking up its higher definition. chromatic images. But it will require FCC authority for commercial operation. CBS is readying an off-the-line demonstration before end of year, and is already installing equipment, including a coaxial cable between its Chrysler Bldg, transmitter and its studios at 485 Madison Ave. and in the Grand Central Terminal. Signals will be received on both direct viewing and projection receivers. One of the three floors it now occupies in Chrysler Bldg, for TV will be devoted entirely to the new ultra-high transmitter, the other two being already used for blackand-whit e . CBS demonstration, which may be its last big blast at present sight-andsound standards before mass production of home sets gets under way, will presume to settle question of color vs. monochrome. If successful, it might well deter the start of widespread manufacture of video receivers for operation in newly assigned 44-88 and 174-216 me. commercial bands. Still under wraps, Dr. Goldmark’s development is mechanical — not electronic. Few outside the CBS family have plumped for it as yet. Most engineers are skeptical, want to be shown. But it is claimed a noiseless motor has been produced to drive the mechanical color disk. It is said refinements in control of scanning sequences eliminate the "fringing," v/hich results in one color remaining and providing a "color tail" to the image because of the sequence in scanning, so that picture isn't sharp. PAUL KESTEH SPEAKS UP; In minds of certain CBS board members is plan to up Paul Kesten, executive v.p., to the presidency — but Kesten himself isn't sold on the idea and says he'll have "something to say about that." Plan is not to displace Col. Bill Paley, expected back in time for next board meeting from his Army job in Europe, but rather to give him more time to devote to TV, FM and other developmental problems, as well as to creative side of programming, always his pet interest. Associates say Paley is returning with "blood in his eye," determined to scotch persistent rumors of his retirement from radio. When he gets his Army discharge, he'll be back at netv;ork helm — no question about that. But he himself may persuade Kesten to retain active management with new title. Kesten enhanced his reputation for facile expression in his testimony before recent FCC hearings on FM where he was star witness. He v/ent all-out for FM as "technically destined to replace AM transmission, as surely and inevitably as the tungsten lamp. .. replaced the old carbon filament." He put FM's case so vividly, so cogently, that we suggest you ask CBS for full copy of text of his July 30 statement before FCC. Read it carefully; it's basic stuff. AKMSTKOHt; PATEJiTS EXPIHIHC; Though the "Daddy of FM" stands to earn a justly deserved fortune in royalties on FM receiving sets and transmitters, by whomever manufactured, he may not reap the full 17-year benefit of his patents. He tells