Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)
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TV E?]TRSPR£N£U2JS BUSY: Busier than proverbial bird dog is ABC's TV dept., headed by Paul Mowrey, which this week announced deal with BBC to exchange newsreels for telecasting. In first batch, London gets shots of current Cleveland Air Races.
CBS v/aived video rights to races, for which it holds exclusive broadcast rights, demonstrating what ABC calls "sort of cooperation that benefits the v/hole television industry." ABC, unlike NBC and CBS, has no TV outlets of own as yet (holds CPs for Chicago, Detroit) but places its programs on existing stations, goes in heavily for filming sports, news, etc.
Meanwhile, NBC announced exclusive rights to N.Y. Giants vs. Green Bay Packers charity football contest at Polo Grounds Sept. 20, inaugurating season of grid pickups that are "naturals" for TV (Vol. 2, No. 34). For seventh successive year, Philco’s WPTZ will telecast U of Pennsylvania games this fall from Franklin Field; plans for covering Philadelphia Eagles pro games are also in the works.
And DuMont is reported negotiating for TV rights to New York Yankees pro football team in hope of selling sponsorship to Ford, already scheduled to sponsor Columbia U home games as well as Madison Square Garden sports on CBS-WCBVV. Next prizefight to be telecast will be Servo-Robinson championship on NBC-WNBT Sept. 6, Gillette sponsoring. In Chicago, Balaban & Kata's WBKB (Paramount) announced it is "going commercial" Sept. 1, issued rate card based on estimated receivers in city (about 500). Time costs will increase as sets increase; hour rate now is §100, half hour §60, 15 minutes §40, 2-minute live spot §30, film spot §20.
TV CL5CICS AT STATE FhlE: There has never been any doubt in the minds, of TV people
how video would click once, the average man and woman saw it in operation. But response to ABC's closed circuit demonstration this week at Iowa's famed State Fair at Des Moines has surpassed even the^ most optimistic hopes. "Retailing," the Fairchild publication, reports TV show was Fair's top attraction, its attendance exceeding even grandstand shows. Practically two-thirds of all information desk . inquiries were for directions to the video tent.
ABC reports TV tent was crov/ded to capacity from the very first performance. Tent had seats for 300 to watch the performance on a dozen RCA receivers.
'' Ten v;ere direct-viewing models, accommodating up to 20 viewers each; the other 2 sets were projection models. Cost of the TV exhibit is estimated at §100, 000, and was sponsored by Cowles' KRNT. RCA setup v/as headed by Joe Jenkins, has thus far been seen in Philadelphia at Gimbels (Vol. 1, Nos. 10 and 11), in Memphis at Lowensteins, in Pittsburgh at Kaufraanns, all big department stores.
STAs PDI^T THE WAY: Tally the hundreds of FM applications, conditional grants and CPs as much as v/e v/ill — but the figures mean nothing market-wise to manufacturer L or dealer, nor program-v/ise to iistener, until actual broadcasters can be listed.
To the log of prewar FM licensees (Supplement No. 32), all of them still operating on more or less regular schedules, may now be added the growing phalanx of STA n holders. These are the stations actually programming, or at least authorized to go on the air immediately, albeit with skeleton facilities. They number 24 as of this date; 5 more pend assured FCC approval; 9 other requests for STAs are on file.
I STAs currently authorized are (for principals, see Supplements Mo. 41 and
“[ 14A-14N) ; KRFM, Fresno, Cal.; KRCC, Richmond, Cal.; WRLC-FM, Toccoa, Ga. ; WIOD\ FM, Miami; WQAM-FM, Miami; V.7/LH, New Orleans; V/RCM, New Orleans; WITH-FM, Baltimore; KSTP-FT.T, St. Paul; WMBH-FM, Joplin, Mo.; WIL-FM, St. Louis; KWK-FM, St. Louis KOAD, Omaha; WBEN-FM, Buffalo; WSYR-FM, Syracuse; WCOY, Raleigh; KGW-FM, Portland, Ore. ; WHP-FM, Harrisburg, Pa. ; WGAL-FM, Lancaster, Pa. ; KAMI, College Station,
Tex.; KTHT-FM, Houston; WCFC, Beckley, W. Va. ; KDPR-FM, Alexandria, La.; WGBR-FM, Goldsboro, N.C. Expecting STAs any day now are; WRBL, Columbus, Ga. ; WTOC,
Savannah, Ga. ; WBBB, Burlington, N.C. ; WMFR, High Point, N.C. ; KTOK, Oklahoma City. These are filed and go before FCC soon: V/KAT-FM, Miami Beach; WTPS, New Orleans; WFMR, New Bedford, Mass.; WIBX-FM, Utica; WTMA-FM, Charleston, N.C.; WSPA-FM, Spartanburg, N.C. ; WEBR-FM, Buffalo, N.Y. ; KFBC, Cheyenne, 'VVyo. ; Mt. Vernon Radio & Television Co., Mt. Veraon, 111.