Television digest with AM-FM reports (Jan-Dec 1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with AM-FM reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1951
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with AM-FM reports (Jan-Dec 1951)
Leaf #:
000545
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting -- United States -- 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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MARTIN CODECs AUTHORITATIVE NEWS SERVICE OF THE VISUAL BROADCASTING ARTS AND INDUSTRY NAB LIBK WITH AM 7 PM REPORTS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY RADIO NEWS BUREAU, 1519 CONNECTICUT AVE. N.W., WASHINGTON 6, D.C. TELEPHONE MICHIGAN 2020 • VOL . 7. NO. 37 September 15, 1951 ? r NPA Approves Station Building Projects, page 1. Mn this Winning Converts, Doubts Fading, page 1. ^ < Post-Freeze, How Soon & How Many? page 2. Mssue* Compatible Color Up Another Notch, page 3. ^ Theatre TV Hypos Big Prizefight ‘Take’, page 5. Shortages Are Real, Here for Long Run, page 7. Trade Facts & Figures Look Better, page 9. Rise & Fall of Factory Prices & Sales, page 10. Telecasters Get Excess Profits Tax Relief, page 12. Mobilization Notes, p. 8 — Topics & Trends, pp. 10-11. NPA APPROVES STATION BUILDING PROJECTS: NPA is allocating materials for construction and alteration of TV and radio stations in fourth quarter, despite extremely tight structural steel situation (Vol. 7:32,36). The control agency broke its obstinate silence on its attitude toward TVradio station construction with announcement at week's end that 10 TV projects and 3 radio stations, had received go-ahead and "certified check" for required steel. copper and aluminum. It was only a partial list ; more are sure to follow. No list of rejected applications has been issued yet. NBC was granted materials for 4 projects, to cost total of $652,000 (construction costs only, not including broadcast or studio equipment). Network got NPA blessing for construction of: new studio ($275,000), film projection studio ($108,000), remodeled studio ($40,000), all New York; new studio, Chicago ($229,000). ABC got permission to build addition to San Francisco TV-radio studio at $600,000; WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, TV-radio facilities at $305,000; and WSYR-TV. Syracuse, TV studio at $26,790. There's still mystery surrounding NPA's criteria for judging applications. From the first, officials have made clear they'd consider no applications from persons who don't have FCC grants. But on NPA's list was an OK for construction of $125,000 "TV tower near Summit, Pa." by WHUM, Reading, Pa. FCC has announced no grant to WHUM, seeking to build experimental uhf with 1050-ft. tower (see p. 2). Also on NPA's list was approval of new "radio and TV studios" for KOMA. Oklahoma City, AM licensee which has applied for TV but has no TV grant. NPA also approved construction of uhf station atop Mt. Wilson, Cal., by John H. Poole, who asked FCC permission to move experimental KM2XAZ there from Long Beach (see p. 2). Radio station approvals went to WMPA, Aberdeen, Miss., $17,784, and WOKE, Oak Ridge, Tenn. , $3300, both of which hold CPs, and to WKOK, Sunbury, Pa. . for construction of $10,450 tower. Two other broadcasters, Conant Broadcasting Co., Medford, Mass., and WFYC, Alma, Mich., were notified they're exempt under new building control regulations, since they require less than 2 tons of steel (Vol. 7:35). UHF WINNING CONVERTS, DOUBTS FADING: Uhf stock got another hefty boost this week when more than 150 AM station engineers, consultants and attorneys got good look at its performance in Bridgeport — and heard FCC chairman Wayne Coy deliver the most fervent affirmation of faith in uhf he has rendered to date. Occasion was Sept. 12 uhf session of RCA's 5-day seminar, conducted for guests who inspected the RCA-NBC "guinea pig" installations (Vol. 7:12, 14-16 et seq), watched its operations on 529-535 me & 850-856 me. Seminar covered technical aspects of uhf — transmitters, converters, antennas, propagation. "You're going to have the surprise of your life, " said Coy. "Uhf is not the lemon some people think it is." He pointed to uhf's relative freedom from some types of interference and to FCC's fond care in allocating uhf stations so as to Copyright 1951 by Radio News Bureau S£? 1 7 1951