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 #:
000630
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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4 transmitter with 3-bay RCA superturnstile atop downtown Westward Hotel. Its mgr., also directing the installation of Fairbanks outlet, is James Duncan, recently at KFMB-TV, San Diego, who also is chief engineer. W.R. Williams is operations supervisor; Phil Howarth, sales mgr. ; John H. Lueken, program & news director; John Mihelich, technical supervisor. Rep is Art Moore & Son, Seattle-Portland. KOOK-TV, Billings, Mont. (Ch. 2), state's third outlet (2 others, both vhf, in Butte), began testing DuMont transmitter Oct. 23, according to DuMont field report. It has DuMont transmitter, RCA antenna, affiliates with CBS-TV on non-interconnected basis at $150 rate, same as KOPR-TV, Butte. Owners are C.L, Crist, pres., and J. Carter Johnson, v.p., with V.V. Clark as gen. mgr. ; John Conner, commercial mgr. ; Edmund Peiss, program mgr. ; Grant French, chief engineer. Weed is rep. *3* OU O* JU T T T T CKSO-TV, Sudbury, Ont . (Ch. 5), more than 200 mi. northwest of Toronto, put on first test patterns Oct. 20 from RCA transmitter and tower atop modern new office building overlooking northern Ontario's nickel basin. It's first privately-owned TV station in Canada, due to be followed next month by CFPL, London, Ont. (Ch. 10) and CFCM-IV, Quebec City (Ch. 4) as well as CBC’s CBUT, Vancouver (Ch. 2). It will get CBC as well as U.S. network programs via kinescope, starting with commercial debut Oct. 25. It will sign on at 6:45 p.m. daily, 3 p.m. Sun., starts with $150 base rate. W.J. Woodill is gen. mgr. All-Canada TV is Dominion rep, Weed in U.S. Note : In reporting debut of Fhoenix's time-sharing KOOL-TV & KOY-TV last week, we erroneously stated they would have CBS affiliation. They will get CBS film service, but KPHO-TV has CBS basic affiliation in that city and KTYL-TV is NBC basic. PITTSBURGH— BIG-CITY VHF-UHF MARKET: Uhf is off to a running start in Pittsburgh — nation's biggest "single-vhf city” and second biggest "uhf market" (Boston is first). Three months after first uhf station went on air there, and 2 months after debut of second, most TV dealers are enjoying biggest demand since TV's early days. Estimates of uhf sets-in-use range all the way from 50,000-110,000, depending on who is doing the estimating. Thanks to heavy promotion, every Pittsburgh resident who isn't deaf and blind knows about uhf, and good programming is building up bigger demand for sets and converters. Admittedly, uhf stations there still have long way to go, and there are some troublesome obstacles ahead for them. We visited Pittsburgh this week, talked with TV set distributors, parts wholesalers, dealers, servicemen, telecasters and just plain viewers. Our observations there reinforce our oft-expressed view on uhf's No. 1 fact of life: The key to success in uhf, as in vhf, is programming. Second to good programming, we are convinced that big-city uhf's most important need — especially in mountainous regions like Pittsburgh — is high power. Pittsburgh's only TV station from Jan. 1949 to July 1953 was DuMont ' s WDTV (now on Ch. 2). Many Pittsburgh homes also watch Johnstown's WJAC-TV (Ch. 6), and the number has increased since station's power boost. Pittsburgh's other commercial vhf allocation, Ch. 11, is tied up in 3-way contest by Westinghouse ' s pioneer KDKA (NBC), WJAS (CBS) and independent WWSW. Five others seek Ch. 4 in suburban Irwin. Because Pittsburgh and Irwin are well down on FCC's priority list, these applications appear to be bottled up for some time — but anything can happen, so there's no way of knowing when city will get more vhf. City's second station and first uhf was WKJF-TV (Ch. 53), backed with steel money by Agnes J. Reeves Greer, who also owns radio and newspaper properties in West Virginia and Ohio. It's managed by F. G. Raese, who took over ailing FM-only WKJF several years ago, put it in the black through specialised programming and "saturation sales" plan. WKJF-TV u'ent on air July 14. A month later, WENS (Ch. 16) made programming debut with Pittsburgh PiratesSt. Louis Cardinals game from Forbes Field. Its president and principal financial backer is Thomas P. Johnson, chief owner of Pirates. Station's dynamic sparkplugs are managing partners A. Donavan Faust and Larry H. Israel, both ex-WDTV.