Television digest and FM reports (Feb-Dec 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest and FM reports
Date:
Feb-Dec 1947
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest and FM reports (Feb-Dec 1947)
Leaf #:
00065
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","FM broadcasting -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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pgSUSHEO WEEKLY DY # RADIO H£9S 1S13 COKNECTICUT AVE. H.W.. WA3HiNSTQM 6. D.C. TELEPHONE MICH1SAS 2S2Q • VOL. 3, NO. 23 KASTia CODEL’s AUTHORITATIVE NEWS SERVICE OF THE VISUAL BROADCASTING AND FREQUENCY MODULATION ARTS AND INDUSTRY t June 7, 1947 AND STILL MORE HEW STATIONS: Like it or not, the rate of new AM station grants continues Swift — 22 more this week (see AM Directory 1-D) , or 36 altogether since our AM Directory No. 1, dated May 1. In other words, adding these 36 to the AM Directory's 1,712, we now have 1,748 licensed or authorized AM stations in the United States. And applications for new AM stations continue apace: 42 since May 1, bringing total pending to nearly 750. By contrast, here's the FM box-score to date: licensees, 48; CPs, 562; conditionals, 240; applications, 174; and among CPs and conditionals, 172 hold STAs for interim operation. REPORT ON TV; YANKEE RE-FILES: Yankee Network re-applied for TV in Boston this week. Second to stipulate GE equipment. First TV transmitter sold by GE goes to Chicago Tribune's WGNA, which has just signed contracts for more' than §300,000 worth of equipment, including 5 kw Type TT-6-B — called by GE the "highest powered television transmitter made today" — plus RCA mobile equipment. Next commercial TV '.outlet to take air will be NBC's WNBW, Washington , now testing, scheduled to open officially June 27 with local studio programs plus 6-9 hours from New York weekly ; its mobile unit will be ready in July, film studio by Aug. 1. Meanwhile, DuMont's WTTG, Washington, announced jspeeded-up schedule of locals and remotes: baseball, starting June 13; racing from nearby tracks, September; Navy football games from Baltimore, etc. Yankee seeks Channel No. 7 (174-180 me), one of 3 still due Boston; only other pending applicant there is Paramount's New England Theatres Inc., with Westinghouse (WBZ) and Raytheon (Waltham) the grantees to date. Yankee says it will spend §280,250 on installation. Chicago Tribune installation will test by Oct. 1, goes into commercial operation Jan. 1, 1948, includes "newly developed .items not yet announced to trade," says Carl J. Meyers, engineering chief. He promises good signal v/ithin radius of 45 miles from Tribune Tower transmitter. Note : Yankee application adds one more under "Applications Pending" part of your TV Directory (Supplement No. 18-C). You'll be up-to-date if you include it, along with Gimbels (WIP) application for Philadelphia (Vol. 3, No. 18), noting also that Tarzian application, Bloomington, Ind. , has been granted (Vol. 3, No. 19). MORE FM MODELS, NEW TV SETS: Chicago music merchant's convention this week proved one thing certain: henceforth, very few console model radios will be without FM. Even more exciting to FMers is prospect of more and more table models with FM, heightened this week by Philco's 482, embracing FM-AM-SW, push-button tuning, 8 tubes plus rectifier, built-in triple aerial. It's priced at §149.50, is Philco's first 1948 model to be shown, called by company finest it has ever produced. This week also, Sentinel announced §64.95 AM-FM table model to be on market next month. Thus two major producers are added to list of those, now making, table models with FM: Zenith, Stromberg, Stewart -Warner , Pilot, Emerson, Bendix, RCA. As for TV receivers, that low-priced Sears Roebuck console we mentioned recently (Vol. 3, No. 13) will be coming out of Colonial (Sylvania) factory by Copyright 1947 by Radio News Bureau