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RCA'S ALL-SEEI?i& EYE: RCA's hitherto closely guarded TV ace-in-the-hole, a super
sensitive tube which makes its Iconoscope the keenest seeing-eye yet devised by man, is to be demonstrated by RCA-NBC to the press next Thursday, Oct. 25. Tube not only broadens scope of pickups but is said to eliminate need for batteries of light under which studio performers must sweat, is so sensitive that shadows appear as shadows and don't obscure images, can almost see in the dark.
Its value to motion pictures is as great as to TV. It's said to be another war baby, whose military applications, if all can be told, should make this demonstration a front-page story.
STRANCS BEDFELLOWS: Our staff has been v/orking for some six weeks, and are still working, on that log of applicants for new FM stations, now numbering more than 650. We hope to have it for you very soon, with detailed data on each applicant — ownership, cost figures, antenna factors, counsel, engineers, etc.
Meanv/hile, scanning the material already completed, w'e find some interesting combinations, indicating the hopes and confidence of some industry leaders, newspapers, et al., in FM's future.
From New York City, for example, there's an application in name of American Network Inc., whose officers are John Shepard 3rd, pres. ; Walter J. Damm, v.p. , and Gordon Gray, secy-treas., all already prominent in FM, along with Jack Latham, the ex-agency man, as exec v.p. They propose locating studio and transmitter in Lincoln Bldg., on 42nd St., would spend 551,860 for installation and an estimated $15,000 monthly on operation. Presumably this would be a personal enterprise for each, apart from their other connections, and possibly they plan it as an eventual new network key.
Maj . Edwin H. Armstrong, FM inventor, is partner with Jansky & Bailey, the consulting engineers, for a new outlet in Olney, Md. , about 12 miles from Washington, which with the 50 kv;. they request might cover both Washington and Baltimore and on which they propose spending $133,500.
Crosley Corp. . not yet in FM, proposes stations not only in Cincinnati, but also in Columbus, Dayton and Washington, D. C.
Among the newspaper interests, Scripps-Howard seeks full limit of six outlets in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Memphis and San Francisco. (Scripps-Howard is already a TV applicant for V/ashington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and v/ill probably file for two more; its radio chief, Lt. Jack Howard, has just returned from 21 months Navy duty in Pacific and should be in civies soon, as should Lt. Col. James Hanrahan, exec v.p.)
The Wolfes* RadiOhio Inc. (Ohio State Journal and Columbus Dispatch), who already own pioneer FM-WELD, seeks outlets in Marion, Portsmouth, Springfield,
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