"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

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Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00093
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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74 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION of setting up a video station—with its attendant FM sound channel—to service watchers in that area. The addition of sight-channels will be a side-by-side development, along with the con- tinuation of sound broadcasting as we know it now. The visual channel, with its accompanying FM sound, will simply be added to the regular operation of the broadcasting station. The addi- tion of sight-FM transmitters will undoubtedly begin in the large population centers, where concentrated audiences present the best adver- tising markets. In subsequent months, as the op- eration of the subsidiary sight-FM channels of metropolitan stations proves profitable, local stations in more outlying sectors will undoubt- edly follow suit. The programs which will supply these mush- rooming stations throughout the country may be expected to consist almost entirely of "video- film." This is a type of movie—probably on 16 millimeter film—which is prepared especially for broadcasting purposes. The accompanying sound, to feed the station's FM channel, is re- corded on a sound-track along-side the film— exactly as in current motion picture practice. Videofilm programs of both commercial and