Television digest and FM reports (Feb-Dec 1947)

HARTiH CflDEL’ AUTHORITATIVE NEWS SERVICE OF THE VISUAL BROADCASTING AND FREQUENCY MODULATION ARTS AND INDUSTRY PUBLISHED WEEKLY BT h C0HHEGT1CDT AYE. fiW., WASH18STDM 8.B.S. TELEPHONE H1SH1BAH 2023 • VOL 3, NO. 14 April 5, 1947 UP-TO-THE-MINUTE DIRECTORIES: Supplement No. 50 herewith, our second Quarterly Directory of FM Licensees, Grantees and Applicants, consolidates all the data in Supplement No. 47, 47-A, et seq, which can now be discarded. It also includes this week’s unusually light grants — only 4 conditionals, G STAs. This 6-part Directory brings your FM records up-to-date in handy form; it also will be' supplemented by the pink addenda reports based on current FCC actions, which are sent you weekly. Extra copies are available to subscribers at §1 each. .Note : Our AM Directory is in the works, will be handled in much the same manner as our FM Directory, with weekly addenda reports designed to keep you up-to-the-minute on AM licensees, CP holders, applicants (by States, frequencies, catll letters) ; looks now like it will run about 96 pages when it rolls off press in early May. FM-ONLY TABLE MODEL: That of t-talked-about FM-only table model receiver is at last taking shape, looks like it should cost about $39 to manufacture. To our nontechnical ear it Sounded fine when demonstrated this week at offices of promoters (Electronics Inc., Bowen Bldg., Washington) , headed by radio attorney Bill Koplovitz of Dempsey & Koplovitz. It’s a more refined job than Shown at FMA convention last January (Vol. 3, No. 2), contains some nifty features, is called "Minuette." Plan is to bring together manufacturer (Airadio Inc., Stamford, Conn.) and FM broadcasters, who may want to arrange own distribution in their territories, perhaps even taking dealerships themselves. Set is 7-tube, AC-DC, with 5-inch Speaker, Armstrong circuit. It can be used as complete receiver, or as FM tuner (attachment to AM audio output provided). It is said to have clear reception between stations Separated by only one channel, high sensitivity to signals as low as 30 uv. Power cord acts as antenna for high intensity signals, but outside aerial is recommended for weaker signals. No drift is present after warm-up period (about 5 minutes). TV's CHICKEN-EGG MARKETS: RCA isn’t waiting for completion of NBC’s new Washington TV station WNBW (due for tests in May or early June) before launching next in its series of T-Days. Capital's T-Day breaks Sunday, April 13, with big Spreads in local newspapers, launching week of special events highlighted by telecast of season's baseball opener (Yankees vs. Senators). DuMont's WTTG will provide signals, incidentally is negotiating to sign all Washington club's games as regular feature ; DuMont already has Yankee' home games signed. Something like 700 RCA sets (table models 630-TS, 621-TS) are being routed into Washington market, which already has an estimated 200 sets in homes mostly of radio folk or VIPs like FCC top-kicks, high politicos, etc. GE expects about 50 of its model 801 (Vol. 3, No. 11) to be on view at its capital dealers during Y/eek. DuMont So far has made no special plans to capitalize on promotion. RCA-promoted T-Days have clicked quite well in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and have created far greater demand for receivers than can yet be filled. It's a chicken-first-then-eggs plan — to have sets follow stations, to Copyright 1947 by Radio News Bureau