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AM DIRECTORY NEARLY HEADY: Report on 'Our AM Directory: It'S almost ready for
the printer, should be in mails to subscribers within next 10 days, will be up-tothe minute as of May 1 on (1) all U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Cuban and other North American standard broadcasting stations, listed separately by States, Frequencies, Call Letters; (2) all pending applications for new or changed AM facilities, also separately listed by States and frequencies. Subscribers will get weekly addenda sheets, reporting additions and changes, as part of this added service — which will cost them nothing extra. But extra copies of the AM Directory, about 100 pages punched for loose-leaf binding, will cost them $10 each. The AM Directory and addenda service are available only to regular subscribers.
PRODDING THE MOVIE MOGULS: Movie industry’s technicians’ think it's time their' big
bosses wake up to TV, get into video swim now against day when (1) home TV on vast scale offers competition to boxoffice, (2) TV transmission to theaters is practicable and feasible. Society of Motion Picture: Engineers, at Chicago convention this week, instructed its TV chairman Paul J. Larsen to make plans v/ith top level movie executives for an industry-wide TV committee. Radio Engineer Larsen, also appointed IRE video committee chairman this week, expects okay from Eric Johnston's Motion Picture Producers Assn after its May 9 board meeting, also from Donald Nelson's Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers.
Now a Johns Hopkins researcher at its Silver Spring, Md. labs, Larsen has been watching TV from vantage point of nearby Washington, is prime mover in demand on FCC for theater TV channels (Vol. 3, No. 6). He thinks complete theater TV (spot news, sports, possibly even transmission of feature films) can be demonstrated in 2 years, be on national commercial basis in 5-10 years. He's one of few "voices in wilderness" (Paramount's Paul Raibourn, RKO'S Ralph Auistrian, 20th Century's Earl Sponable are others) trying to persuade movie moguls they’re .overlooking good bet in TV. Moviemen note : RCA is demonstrating to newsmen its large-screen theater
type color TV for first time at Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, next Wednesday.
NETWORK TV VIA COAX AND/OR RELAYS: AT&T is naturally cagey about making promises
for its coaxial, and TV radio relays over long distances are still in development Stage — but it's pretty certain that several more TV cities will be linked by coaxial by time of Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, June' 20, 1948. That and the Democratic presidential nominating convention (time and place not yet selected) Should afford greatest of all possible telecast events from point of view of public interest. There wasn't anything of kind at both conventions in Chicago in 1944 (due to war stoppage of TV) but NBC's video coverage via radio relay from GOP (Willkie) convention in Philadelphia in 1940 is recalled as landmark of TV history.
Fact that Philadelphia is on New York-to-Washington coaxial, thus assuring TV network pickups, actually helped influence selection of that city by GOP. It may likewise influence Democrats — though they're talking Chicago which has one
Copyright 1947 by Radio News Bureau