Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)

coniment on its political implications. Wrote Columnist Thomas L. Stokes, recalling v/hat Mr. Roosevelt's radio voice meant to him politically: "Pity the poor politician! Just when he learns one technique, progress comes along. Painfully, politicians of our era — including presidential candidates — had to learn to speak over the radio. Nov/ along comes television. Now they've got to learn to be actors as well, refined actors fit to be thrown on the screen in the American home, which is something different from cutting the usual stump capers. Facial expression is the thing. In the privacy of the radio studio the politician doesn't have to watch himself when he speaks of the glory of motherhood or the innocence of childhood. He can even smirk to himself .... The President is new at this. Maybe, if you who have the benefit of television watch carefully, you can tell what he really thinks about Congress by the look on his face. That might help a lot for the understanding of the folks, and for an understanding of what goes on here. Television, my friends, might well change the course of our politics and our history. " KOBE OH FM B2C02^VZBS!S?IS: Westinghouse ' s 5 FM stations, largest number licensed to any single company to date, v/ere all reconverted to their new frequencies as of Jan. 1 but will continue to operate also on their old channels. CBS ' s tivo FMs . WABC-FM and WBBM-FM, now shut down, will reconvert to new channels at an undetermined date but v/ill not operate on old, just as WEAF-FM (NBC) has decided to do when it resumes on 97.3 me (Channel No. 247) on or about Jan. 16. The NBC station, incidentally, will operate with reduced power and temporary antenna, plans to play recorded music to bypass Petrillo order. Further returns from our questionnaire to the existing FM license and CP holders disclosed more stations planning to continue on both frequencies as long as Washington permits. In addition to those reported last week (Vol. 2, No. 1), the following have indicated their intentions: Already reconverted to new but continuing on old: WHFM, Rochester, which started Dec. 1 on 98.9 me (Channel No. 255) and will continue also on 45.1; V/GNB, Chicago, started Jan. 1 on 98.9 (No. 255) and continuing on 45.9; and the Westinghouse stations: KDKA-FM, Pittsburgh, 94.1 (No. 231) and 47.5; KYW-FM, Philadelphia, 100.3 (No. 262) and 45.7; WBZ-FM, Boston, 100.7 (No. 264) and 46.7; WBZA-FM, Springfield, 97.1 (No. 246) and 48.0; WOWO-FM, Fort Wayne, 95.9 (No. 240) and 44.9; WHEF, Rochester, 98.5 (No. 253) and 44.7. Shortly to be reconverted and planning also to continue on old frequencies: WENA, Detroit, Feb. 1, 96.9 (No. 245) and 44.5; WSM-FM, Nashville, April, 100.1 (No. 261) and 44.7; V/ABW, Indianapolis, March 1, 94.9 (No. 235) and 47.3; WGFM, Schenectady, April, 100.7 (No. 264) and 48.5. Not planning to continue on old and dates of starting on new: V/ABC-FM, New York, date undetermined, 96.9 (No. 245) ; WBBM-FM, Chicago, date undetermined, 99.3 (No. 257); WTAG-FM, Worcester, Jan. 1, 102.7 (No. 274); WPEN-FM, Philadelphia, Jan. 1, 99.5 (No. 258) ; WIP-FM, Philadelphia, Jan. 25, 97.5 (No. 248) ; WDUL, Duluth, Jan. 1, 92.3 (No. 222); WBRL, Baton Rouge, La., Dec. 31, 96.1 (No. 241). TV TWO-UP Cn Mm: Electronics Industries calls editorial attention in its current issue to two feats accomplished by TV on Navy Day which it says motion pictures, after a generation of experience, cannot yet approach: 1. A big dinner at the Waldorf was clearly pictured for the TV audience, using only regular hotel lighting which was far too dim for taking any movies. 2. A newsreel dropped from a blimp was hurriedly developed and the negative run through the TV projector, without the delay necessary to print, develop and dry a positive. "Yet," says the magazine, "the television audience saw a perfect positive by the simple expedient of electrically reversing the negative picture. And that's something else Messrs. Pathe and Paramount can't yet do — project blacks as whites at the flip of a switch."