Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)

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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 #:
00082
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:
September 05, 2024
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National Broadcasting Co., Cleveland (WTAM) , granted Channel No. 4 with 19 kw visual power, 19.5 kw aural power, 568 ft antenna height. (NBC now holds a license for New York, and CPs for Washington and Cleveland.) Havens & Martin Inc., Richmond, Va. (WMBG) , granted Channel No. 3 with 12.16 kw visual power, 6.4 aural power, 465 ft antenna height. KSTP Inc., St. Paul, granted Channel No. 5 with 13.68 kw visual power, 6.48 kw aural power, 547.1 ft antenna height. Intermountain Broadcasting Corp. , Salt Lake City (KDYL), granted Channel No. 2 with 13.2 kw visual power, 7 kv/ aural power, 542.4 ft antenna height. (Applicant has long held an experimental CP for TV, now gets commercial.) Oregonian Publishing Co., Portland, Ore. (KGW) , granted Channel No. 6 with 10 kw visual power, 11.2 kw aural power, 98.4 ft antenna height. The Commission indicated that 46 of the applications still on file 'giay also be granted without hearing, but pointed out that some of their data is still incomplete. Its reference to 15 cities to which it was making low-band TV available was to Chicago, New York, Schenectady and Philadelphia (where stations are already operating) ; Detroit (where it recently granted 2 without hearing, as reported in Vol. 2, ‘No. 15) ; Washington (where it has authorised 4 stations, as reported in Supplement No. 31) ; and the foregoing 9. Total really is 16, if you coiint the 2 experimental stations already operating on commercial channels in Los Angeles. 4. ^ •I* Other TV news developments of the week: 1. Four more applicants withdrew; Kansas City Star Co. ; V^orld Publishing Co., Omaha; Palmer K. & Lois C. Leberman, New York; WDAS Broadcasting , Station, Philadelphia (Supplement No. 18). In addition, FCC returned as incomplete application of Western Reserve U, Cleveland, for a commercial station (Vol. 2, No. 15). 2. One more new application was filed — Paul Block's Toledo Blade, stating it is ready to spend §175,000 on a TV installation. It was designated for hearing along with Fort Industry Co. application (George Storer). 3. Crosley Corp. replied to rumors it might drop TV by stating it will pursue applications for Cincinnati and Columbus definitely, but Dayton application "depends much on where we can locate our transmitter service in Cincinnati. It conceivably could be used to serve Dayton." Leberman' s withdrawal from New York, he advised us, does not mean he will drop his Seattle (KRSC) application. 4. General Electric reported it expects to make first TV sets, using 10inch direct-viewing tube and costing about §300, available to public in August or September "in areas where stations are now operating or will soon be on the air." Other sets, it added, will follow shortly thereafter, including large-screen projection models. Transmitters and studio equipment are already being manufactured at new Syracuse plant and will be delivered early in 1947. 5. Continuing his counter-blasts at CBS for its espousal of uhf color TV as against low band (Vol. 2, No. 18), Sonora's President Joseph Gerl. speaking again Wednesday at Evansville, Ind., called CBS campaign "calculated sabotage" and added; "The truth of the matter is that color TV, despite the experimental work, is not ready for public use, that color transmitters are at least twice as costly as other transmitters, and that color TV receivers are at least twice as expensive as ordinary TV receivers .... If the American public were to wait until color TV were ready... the v;ait would be at least 5 to 7 years." 6. And Stanley Hubbard of KSTP, which got its TV grant this week and has already placed order for an RCA transmitter, also took occasion to blast color claims by issuing a statement that "they can be demonstrated under carefully controlled conditions existing in the research laboratory" and opining color is at least 5 years away. Deploring "misleading propaganda," he declared "black-and-white TV is ready and desired by the public today. .. .many broadcasters are going to be caught asleep at the switch and will be replaced by those willing to pioneer."