Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronic reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
000513
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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3 WGEM-TV, Quincy, III. (Ch. 10) got its DuMont transmitter on air at 2 a.m. Aug. 28, exactly 19 hours after neighbor KHQA-TV, Hannibal, Mo. (Ch. 7) across the Mississippi only few miles distant. It's testing with 2 side-mount Andrews antennas (visual & aural) pending RCA bridge diplexer due in mid-Sept. and scheduled to surmount 675-ft. tower. Station is controlled by Quincy Herald-Whig, managed by Joe Bonasinga. It goes on NBC & ABC networks. Base rate is $200. Rep is Walker. WICA-TV, Ashtabula, 0. (Ch. 15) began oft-delayed tests of RCA transmitter Aug. 25. It's owned by Rowley estate (Ashtabula Star-Beacon and other Ohio newspapers) and located about halfway between Cleveland & Erie. D.W. Fassett is business mgr. Base rate is $200. Gill-Perna is rep. KETX, Tyler, Tex. (Ch. 19) began testing with GE equipment Aug. 24, opening up new TV area about 85 mi. southeast of Dallas. Owner is Jacob A. Newborn Jr., laundry business and real estate. Mgr. is Robert Norris, ex-U of Texas professor of TV-radio. Base rate is $200. No rep has been announced. KRBC-TV, Abilene, Tex. (Ch. 9) began test patterns Aug. 24 and was scheduled to go commercial at 1 p.m., Aug. 30. It uses DuMont antenna and 400-ft. FM tower 11 mi. south of town. Howard Barrett is mgr. and 8% stockholder, will sell holdings along with others to n ew local group in transfer deal filed with FCC for approval (see p. 6). Base rate is $150. Rep is Pearson. KOPR-TV, Butte, Mont. (Ch. 4) began tests Aug. 23, using RCA transmitter purchased from WGAL-TV, Lancaster, Pa. Frank Carman is pres.. Grant Wrathall a director, each owning 16.75%; Ed Cooney is v.p. & gen. mgr., 10%. It's Butte's second station, Ed Craney's KXLF-TV (Ch. 6) having started Aug. 14. It will get ABC & CBS, starts commercials Sept. 1, operating 6-11 p.m. Rate is $150. Rep is Hollingbery. KHSL-TV, Chico, Cal. (Ch. 12) began testing Aug. 22 with RCA 2-kw transmitter and 6-bay superturnstile. It's owned by Ruth Me Clung, managed by M.F. Woodling, with Martin Jacobsen as production mgr. It affiliates with NBC & CBS. Located about 75 mi. north of Sacramento, nearly 150 mi. from San Francisco, it opens up brand new TV area. Base rate is $200, rep is W.S. Grant Co. 4 VHF GRANTS, NEW PRIORITIES IN EFFECT: FCC granted 4 vhf CPs this week and put into effect its new priority rules for processing mutually exclusive applications. This week's grants: Columbus, Ga. , Ch. 4, WRBL & WGBA ; Manchester, N.H., Ch. 9, WMUR ; Sweetwater, Tex. , Ch. 12, Texas Telecasting Inc. ; Jackson, Miss. , Ch. 3, WSLI. Jackson grant finalized last week's initial decision (Vol. 9:34). Columbus grant was conditional, arose from merger of 2 local AMs this week. Commission ordered CP held up until all its officers and stockholders divest selves of interest in WGBA. Grantee is owned 51% by Columbus Enquirer & Herald and Bradenton (Fla.) Herald (WGBA), 49% by J.W. Woodruff Sr. & J.W. Woodruff Jr. (WRBL). Grant was made over strong objections of Phenix City (Ala. ) city commission and state legislator J.W. Brassell, both attacking "monopoly of communications" and alleged "slanting" of news about Phenix City by Herald. FCC reminded them they have until Sept. 10 to file protest. Station will be Columbus' second, WDAK-TV (Ch. 28) having begun test pattern this week (see p. 2). Manchester grantee is 97% owned by ex-Gov. Francis M. Murphy. Competing WFEA dropped out when Murphy agreed to buy its physical assets for $175,000. Sweetwater group has same ownership as Lubbock's KDUB-TV (Ch.13), principal stockholder being W.D. (Dub) Rogers. Jackson grantee is controlled by Standard Life Insurance Co., will provide vhf competition for well-established uhf WJTV (Ch. 25). * * * * Commission's official priority list, issued Aug. 24, was exactly same as our unofficial one in last week's issue — except for one asterisk misplaced on our list through typographical error. Official list is reprinted in this week's TV Addenda 17-H herewith. List is to be used with FCC's new rules for processing TV applications, which we printed as a Special Report July 18. [We have additional copies of the processing rules, available at $1 each.] It will be some time before FCC begins to set hearing dates on basis of new