Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)
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THSATSH PROJSCTIOH OF TV: Even if Paramount fails to secure video sub-rights from NBC to project on screen of New York's Paramount Theater an "instantaneous newsreel" of Louis-Conn fight June 19, you can expect a demonstration of Paramount's system of delayed {VA minutes) telecasting to theater screens some time in August, as promised. As in case of Louis-Conn fight, if carried, projections will be shown first only to Invited groups. The public isn't going to be let in — yet.
That TV is not an im.mediate problem to the motion picture exhibitor "becaus no practical method of video projection has yet been presented," is opinion of Lester B. Isaac, director of projection and sound for Loew's Theatres (MGM). At recent confab of Society of Motion Picture Engineers, he declared it would not be practical to interrupt regular film shows for unscheduled news by TV. He found fault v/ith both RCA and Rauland methods of instantaneous projection, said construction of average movie theater does not provide convenient location for a TV projector within the limits for satisfactory throw from projector to screen. Also, some proposals for clearing space for a TV projector in the center of a theater v/ould cause elimination of seats, an uninviting prospect for exhibitors. Storage system of recording the TV image on film seems practical, he said, but to him it is just another way of presenting a newsreel.
BIS CmCASO FM HEABI3JS: Next hearing on biggest to date in point of numbers, i£ scheduled for June 3 in Chicago's Board of Education Bldg., with FCC Counsel Sara Miller probably the presiding officer. Allocated 17 channels (Supplement No. 21), Chicago already has 5 licensees (Supplement No. 32) — so that the 18 applicants now on the docket (and any more that may file before Jvine 3) will compete for 12 available channels. Hearing is expected to last perhaps 3 v/eeks. With recent v/ithdrawal of Kiiight Radio Corp. (since Publisher Knight bought into WIND) and Oak Park Amusement & Realty Co. (MGM), these are the applicants scheduled to be heard:
Agricultural Broadcasting Co. (WLS) ; Amalgamated Broadcasting System (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union) ; American Broadcasting Co. (WENR) ; Balaban & Katz Corp. (Paramount) ; Chicago Federation of Labor (WCFL) ; Drovers Journal Publishing Co. (WAAF) ; Dual Engineering Corp. ; United Automobile Workers (CIO) ; JohnsonKennedy Radio Corp. (WIND) ; Lincoln-Belmont Publishing Co. & Myers Publishing Co. ; National Broadcasting Co. (WMAQ) ; Raytheon Manufacturing Co. ; Telair Co. ; Gene T. Dyer (WAIT) ; John A. Dyer (WGES) ; WJJD Inc. ; Radio Station WSBC ; Nathan Schwartz. (For details about applicants, see Supplements No. 14A to 14J.)
SItJHT ABB SBUalB: Veteran FCC technical information chief Dr. L. P. V/heeler, past
president of IRE, retires this week to join venerable radio scientist Greenleaf Whittier Pickard at Newton Highlands, Mass., to do special job for U. S. -Canadian military on radio problems in northern climes; also retiring from FCC, at 62, is V. Ford Greaves, its RID San Francisco supervisor ... .Promoted from acting to permanent status v;ere these FCC Engineering division chiefs: James E. Barr, Standard; Cyril M. Braum, FM ; Curtis B. Plummer, TV.... Denver Post's first foray into radio, sponsorship of Barnet Nover Washington transcriptions on KOA, presages that nev/spaper's entry into FM (Denver has 10 channels, only 2 applicants) and possibly also TV; friendlier policy toward radio attributed to new Publisher Palra< Hoyt, formerly with Portland Oregonian. .. .David B. Smith, Philco v.p. in charge of engineering and chairman of the RMA television systems committee as well as of RTI Panel No 6, has been elected to board of directors of Philco Corp. ; Larry F. Hard^ home radio set division chief, has also been elected to board.... TBA attorney Bili Roberts is planning to petition FCC to postpone July 1 beginning of 28-hour-perweek rule until video settles down to more normal state. .. .DuMont ' s Washington TV station, W3XWT, will probably broadcast Louis-Conn fight, taking NBC telecast off line and putting it on the air for the few score sets in capital. . . .July "Reader's Digest" features condensation of Alva Johnston's recent Satevepost serii "Television — Boom or Bust?"....G. Emerson Markham now heads up all GE broadcasting stations in Schenectady as manager (AM-WGY, FM-WGFM, TV-WGRB) , succeeding ; Kolin Hager, resigned. . . .Bendix of Baltimore hopes to start production of receive .< with FM in August with 2 models, one 7-tube and one 11-tube.