Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1948)
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ipecial 15x20-ft screen developed by 20th Century-Fox's Earl Sponable was used, ^
though system is capable of 16x24. Projection was from balcony 42 ft from screen, job was done under auspices of Fox hierarchy, with blessing of TV-keen Spyros kouras. It was originally planned for Wednesday night unpaid showing to GOP conention bigwigs, but called off when fight was postponed. Thursday night WTTZ teleast of convention session was shown but picture was pretty poor.
Fight also was shown regular Paramount Theater audience in New York, utilzing Paramount's 66-second intermediate film process (Vol. 4, No. 16). Like Fox, aramount paid for special rights.
Note — For theater-owners' thinking about TV's potential impact on theater, sad interesting survey in June 23 "Variety," quoting 21 of them, quite aptly headined, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em."
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RCA's new forward-projection (6x8-ft) TV receiver (TLS86) went on public isplay this week, was to be used for conventions and Louis-Walcott fight in Time;ife offices, RCA Exhibition Hall and Raymond Rosen Co. (RCA distributors) in New prk City; Eastern Co. (RCA distributors), Boston; Taft headquarters, Philadelphia; .ptional Press Club, Washington; WERE, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. RCA dubs it "Life-Size slevision." Set uses 5-in. tube and Schmidt-type optical system. It's expected i sell for around §3,000, mainly to clubs, lounges, recreation centers, etc. — kme market as Colonial's "Vision-Master" (Vol. 4, No. 6).
I30PERTY RIGHTS IN TV SHOWS: First court tests of property rights in telecasts re |
;ilted in findings that telecasters, sponsors, program producers and performers iive vested interest in programs even after put out over ether. In 3 cities this ’;ek, NBC, Gillette, 20th Century Sporting Club, Joe Louis and Joe Walcott got ijunctions against pickups and showings of Louis-Walcott fight to paid audiences v.thout permission. In Philadelphia, Commons Pleas Judge McDevitt, issuing injunc•.ons against Lawndale Theater and Broadwood Hotel, called such reproductions .heft of a property from the person who bought the broadcast rights." In Boston, ourt similarly enjoined Mechanics Hall and Ford Theater Agency. In New York City .idubon Ballroom Inc., 166th & Broadway after advertising "Victory Dance" and paid timissions with TV attraction, were temporarily restrained by Supreme Court order.
1?C is carrying legal burden, feels precedents are important, expects to battle 'irough on appeals. In most cases, it was planned to show fight on big screen predictions such as were stopped once before in New York (Vol. 4, No. 7, 12). Fact Mat both Paramount and Fox paid fees to fight promoters for TV projection rights seen as tacit admission of such rights.
i:ek tv in small pa. towns: still more TV applications from secondary markets I
i.rked this week's batch of 8 — 4 from Pennsylvania, one of them new-to-radio ( ntral Pennsylvania Corp. filing for Channel No. 9 in Altoona and No. 13 in Wilamsport . Proposing to install plants for §97,000 and §84,000, respectively,
( mpany is sparked by Penn State College's engineering dean George L. Haller. It 'eludes 17 area business men, among them the publishers of "Grit." Also filing jr No. 13 in Williamsport is Gazette & Bulletin's ViRAK. And for Meadville, Pa..
] . H. C. Winslow's WMGW has applied for No. 13. Other applications this week;
For Portland, Me., WCSH, No. 11 — now 3 for 2. For Tulsa, Okla. . KTUL,
1.8 — now 3 for 3. For Kansas City, 20th Century-Fox, No. 9 — now 6 for 3.
] r Salt Lake City, KALL, No. 7. [For details about foregoing applicants, see TV iidenda 3-M herewith.]
Examples of deals in progress for footholds in TV via AM, or vice versa;
Vshington State broadcaster J. Elroy McCaw, head of company applying for new 50 1 on 810 kc in Denver, in proposed tieup with Denver TV applicant Aladdin TeleA Sion Inc. (TV Addenda 3-D). Meredith-Champlain Television Corp., capitalized at f|00,000, newly formed to pursue Meredith Publishing Co. (Better Homes & Gardens) {'plication for Albany, N.Y. (TV Addenda 3-C), will assume control of veteran ra( Oman Steve Rintoul's new 10 kw WXKW there, Rintoul to be president. Similar deal j| in works with Rochester's WVET.