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 #:
00057
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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PDBIISHED WEEKLY BY RADIO NEWS B03EAU, 1513 CO^IHECTlCirr AYE. BIASilJMSTO)! 6. U. TaiPHM ^^CHISA^ 2920 • VOL 2, HO. 14 riARTlN CODECS AUTHOaiTATtVE NEWS SERVICE OF THE VISUAL 8ROADCASTINS ANt> FREQUENCY MODULATION ARTS AND INDUSTRY April 6, 1946 LATEST 021 H03JSLNG OABEB: Further inquiries at CPA this week about impact of Housing Order VHP-1 (Vol. 2, No. 13) elicit these developments: 1) There's no use getting too perturbed over the order until CPA interprets it further and shakes down its field staff. 2) CPA is awaiting a report on industry's status, due from the FCC, before ruling on radio portion of ban. Meanwhile, NAB and TBA are filing briefs asking for liberalisation in cases of radio construction, emphasizing many jobs and opportunities for vets in FM and TV. Several transmitter manufacturers have also filed appeals, pleading that xmemployment will result if FM and TV are held up by too literal interpretation of order. m ALLOCATION MAPS: Our book of 60 FM Allocation Maps, covering commercial chan nels by cities, goes into the mails to you next week from our printer — Supplement No. 21A. If you are concerned with FM, these maps should prove as useful to you as our previously published set of 13 TV Allocation Maps (Supplement No. 24) waS to our clients concerned with television. Our FM maps cover Metropolitan and Rural Channels No. 221 to 280 (92.1103.9 me). We did not prepare maps for Non-Commercial, Educational Channels No. 201-220 nor for Channels No. 281-300, because no channel assignments have yet been made on them. However, we have included 10 extra blank maps in your set, to be used as additional channels are assigned, and extra copies of these blanks will be made available at nominal cost. We are indebted to the engineering department of Mutual Broadcasting System, and to its director. Col. Esterley C. Page, for the technical data that went into these maps. There is no extra charge for your set of FM Allocation Maps, but clients only may obtain extra sets at ^15. 00 each. FCC HASIO SET SURVEY: FIi/I and TV broadcasters have an enormous "promotion and circu lation" job ahead of them if they hope to capture the ears and the eyes of the American audience. For it's a rather lugubrious picture of FM and TV set production prospects that the FCC paints in reporting this week on results of its survey of set manufacturers. Four out of 5 receivers scheduled for "probable production" this year, the report shows, will be AM sets only, including the expected deluge of cheap table models, portables, auto sets — always the bulk of receiver production. Out of a total anticipated production of 21,129,760 units, less -than 10% will include FM ; and only about 115,000 TV receivers are in sight — if the FCC report is to be believed. Questionnaires were sent to more than 300 manufacturers, 85 of whom replied. But the FCC says only 4 of those not answering may be classified as large-scale producers. Here's what the 85 reported they expect to produce: AM band only, 16,736,862 units, or 79.2%; AM-FM band, 1,689,750, or 8%; receiver type unspecified, 2,481,300, or 11.7%. None of the other categories ran as high as 1% — FM band only. 86,286; TV band only, 44,706; AM-FM-TV combinations. 54,606; miscellaneous , 21,250. Then there were a scattering of oddments: AM-TV Copyright 1946 by Ihulio News Bureau