Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest and FM reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1946
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)
Leaf #:
00025
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","FM broadcasting -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Washington; all will broadcast in New York City, plus GE's WRGB, via radio relay, in Schenectady. Program opens at noon at Capitol building with scene of dome, surrounding areas, interviews on Capitol steps with Senators Wheeler, White, McKellar ; Reps. Rayburn, Lea; FCC Chairman Porter. At 12:15 p.m. , AT&T film story of coaxial cable goes on air with FCC Commissioner Jett as possible post-film speaker. Ceremonies at Lincoln Memorial begin at 12:30, highlighted by wreath-laying by Gen. Eisenhower. GS?iT2 TV FLS?S &T OPEMSS: still struggling at week's end to show good video. Gerts Dept. Store TV demonstration bodes no good for TV, even though the Jamaica, N.Y. store was crowded as a result of publicity. TV screens presented nothing but vague, blurred outlines, especially at press demonstration Feb. 4. Store officials and William B. Still, operator of experimental TV station W2XJT, who built and installed equipment, hoped that new week would crown efforts v/ith success. Breakdown of apparatus at preview disappointed viewers as well as participants. Audio system worked, but video refused to respond to harried efforts of technicians. Onlookers were able to i,vatch operations only through glass partitions built into one wall of studio. MOBS VIPs SEESCI3IG FM: Add to applicants for new FM stations: Capt. Harry F. Guggen heim, USNR, scion of mining family and owner of Nassau-Suff oik County Newsday, for Bridgeport, Conn, (to cover rich Long Island area); Midwest Broadcasting Co., headed by Milwaukee's Postmaster John Fleissner. for Milwaukee ; the Milwaukee Journal, licensee of WIMJ-FM, for Wausau, Wis. Also applying for Wausau is Morgan Murphy-Waiter Bridges group, operating Duluth's FM station WDUL. These are among the score or more newly filed FM applications since publication of our Supplement No. 14E, and we will report on all of them fully next v/eek in Supplem.ent No. 14F. Illustrating opportunities in FM for small business groups is new application from 4 young Rahall brothers of Beckley, W. Va. All GIs, in various stages of discharge, they are planning deep and eager plunge into broadcasting — AMs and FMs in Allentown and Norristown, Pa., AM in Beckley. mz Fim FOB TV; NBC's big film plans for TV, trumpeted in Hollywood and New York, are reliably reported to call for a 1946 expenditure of $60,000, for which the network hopes to make 12 shorts. Hal Bock, newly named NBC television chief in Hollywood, will try to get them made on V/est Coast. Network is continuing to make own newsreels, however. NBC this week also announced it was not considering signing up v/ith any one motion picture producer but "would play the field," setting at rest rumors stemming from TV v.p. John F. Royal's visit to Hollywood. Both Royal and 0. B. Hanson, NBC chief engineer, indicated it would take about a year after the network receives its Los Angeles license before it could go on the air. Cost of the transmitter, to be located on Mt. Wilson, was estimated at $750,000. 'FORTUIIS' ON TV: A psychiatric diagnosis of the U.S. television industry: "Advanc ing schizophrenia, induced by protracted frustration and characterized by alternating guilt and persecution complexes." Thus, Fortune Magazine for February. The Fortune article tells the story of American TV from the late 20 's up to the current CBS campaign for uhf color. Gist is if industry doesn't resolve basic technical disagreement, TV might turn into biggest and costliest flop in our industrial history. On whole, article is favorable to CBS stand on uhf color TV. Fortune says : CBS plans to petition FCC in spring to allow commercial telecasting in 480-920 me band.... by fall, plans to offer uhf, color licenses to all set manufacturers at royalties of 25{J to $1 per set.