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QyiSTvJS AFTSil KESTEJ3? The slight, high-strung, boyish-looking chap who launched CBS's color TV campaign in announcing that network's post-war video policy April 27, 1944 — Paul W. Kesten — resigned this week as vice chairman and director, for reasons of health. Actually 48 this month, a business genius v/ho came up from the ranks and v/ho as executive v.p. ran CBS during the war years v/hile Bill Paley was overseas, Paul Kesten has long been ailing from chronic arthritis and has been on leave since last winter. Though continuing as consultant and invited "to rejoin Columbia on a full-time basis just as soon as he has fully recovered," his passing from the scene' arouses much conjecture. For it comes at a time v/hen CBS seems to be soft-pedaling its uhf color campaign while at the same time signing top-flight sponsors (Ford, Bristol-Myers) for its low-band monochrome station.
■ Some profess to read into Kesten' s departure the passing of the slash-bang, era of promoting color v/hile deprecating monochrome. That may or may not be so ; v/e don't know. But certainly Kesten' s absence from the CBS scene the last six months or more did not seem to chai^ge CBS policy materially, through it has not since had so articulate a spokesman. Nor is CBS, in view of what its top officials have said for the record, let alone its enormous investm.ent in color development and equipment, likely to want to lose its identity as the foremost color proponent and as claimant to basic patents in that field.
This summer's quietude regarding color may be explained by fact that Dr. Peter Goldmark and staff have just completed readjustment of their entire color system' to^ compensate for change in frame rate — from 20 to 24 per second — to permit greater brilliancy of images. Also helpful in telecasting movies is fact that 24 frames is same as used in films.
WHSil THE RllHS HSG-WIDJ: still pouring forth on FCC decision days is a pleth
ora jof CPs for new AM stations — 10 this week, 20 last week, 10 the week before, etc. So that up to today the number of construction permits outstanding for standard broadcasting stations has reached the fantastic total of 305 1 This leaves out of account "proposed decisions" that favor new station grants, of which there were 14 this week alone, v/ith dozens more pending practically sure of approval.
In other words, 305 nev/ AM stations, plus, are to be built and added to the 974 already licensed as of Aug. 10. Compare this v/ith the FA{ box score to date;
217 CPs, 5 EAs, 283 conditionals (see Supplement No 41 herewith).
Since FM grants did not begin issuing until last March, it is perhaps fairer to compare the FM totals to this year's AM grants only, which numbered 272, more than 60 since July 1. For it really was not until this year that the FCC began to run hog-wild in authorizing new AM stations regardless of need or engineering standards — and despite its avowed purpose of encouraging FM as the future medium of local and regional broadcasting in the United States. So, as against the 272 CPs for AM during 1946 to date, the FCC has authorized only 222 FMs (CPs plus ETs). V/e don't count the 283 conditionals because they are not much help, so far
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