Variety (May 1946)

WwlnetiUy, May 22, 1946 U&RiETT RADIO 45 Col. McCormick Preems Facsimile, Doesn't Quite Know What Its For Sayers East for Meet ! On Gallop Program Hollywood, May 21. Jack Sayer.s, chief or Coast bflice \it film division of Gallup Pol), left . : for N. Y. yesterday iMon.) for hbhic- ! office huddles on future of ■■■America •Speaks," program which CBS has what radio B BBBllaBr laawun mi i ~ was 20 years ago, but WGN is going to fmd out all about it. Radio is con- stantly developing. FM. television, .facsimile are all new. Wc can't re- sist these advances. We've/got lo no <,n with them " Chips Down in Buffalo Church-WBKW Fight, With Fly Lined Up Vs. FCC Chicano, May 21. ♦ "I don't know what facsimile is anymore than I knew Luther Gibson, Nixed By FCC on KROY Buy, Now Angling for KMED, Ore FCC is Buffalo. May 21. currently .-.ending form Washington. May 21. I.uther Gibson, California broad- caster-publisher, has already laired locally last five weeks and • letters to all Buffalonians who pro- 'which has attracted network sponsor tested against elimination of Church- : bids. ill Tabernacle religious broadcasts 1 Prime difficulty to be overcome on from WKBW due. to the •.current ■program. which Sayers himself battle .'.between the stations and the ; handles, is fact it is restricted off Tabernacle. FCC explains that its webs at present because of Gallup decision "does not preclude an ar- the Buffalo 'controlling Poll column being syndicated in liin ., t . men , between newspapers. As airer is based on Broadcasting Corp. tended, publicity for Fly and the entire controversy in the local newspapers. The ex-FCChead. who was photographed with local attor- neys and Tabernacle officials active in the light, issued a statement out-, lining the litigation. Fly said ilie battle was ''to con- tinue the public service long ren- dered by the Tabernacle." He stated that the Tabernacle was (I) appeal- ing to the U. S. Circuit Court of Ap- Thus Col. Robert R. McCormick. w£ S | hurnedV 0 n t e "by ',he FCc7 AVCO ^^Stt^ ■ ^,?S Xw£^*35&~& publishing history by sending out j rules on station sales, but is Willmr- w ;n ' |, ave lo be obtained from sheet over the ether a facsimile.-edition. , (o ,,. v again, in each locality before it can oe First paper to print a radio trans- . Gjl)S01l enl( ,,. c <| lh< . com p el i,ion to '.aired through a w.eb outlet there. ^^ZJ^T^^^^ —- ..^The Los Angele, Times. Gallup sub buy KROY, Sacramento, but was good it will do—if any. turned down last week by the FCC In any event, four pages—in mini- in preference to another bidder. His ature—of the news, plus' plx and a' multiple newspaper-holdings in Cali- sDc-i iallv drawn cartoon were trans- : ••■■•■■, , • , "P u : ■ . .. . fornui. the FCC said, made him less scriber. gave special permission to Cm|I . chill w|lich -restricted the corp. stage tryoul here ing the existing contract of '.he The commission made clear thai c \ nin .i A a „d lne station not in the its decision applies only to certain , n ,bli c interest: i2l continuing the terms of the contract of sale be- suil previously brought in Supreme twecii the broadcasting company and Court here.against the corp. for coii- irol of WKBW; and '31 applving to in a manner inconsistent with its FCC t0 obti , in p 0ssess ion of WKBWs obligations as. a licensee.' Over the frequency for the new Churchill milled through 'WGNB.. the Tiibs FM station, and printed on a "fac , desirable as a radio licensee in hi recorder" iradionic .printing press > hometow n area. •signature of .FCC Secretary T. S. Slowie. protesters are advised that in Col. McCormick's- home, Canligny Farm, near Wheaton. Ill—29 miles from the Tribune Tower. It took 2D minutes to transmit the edition, whose pages were four columns wide and 7'» inches long. . • Facsimile may prove loo costly Gibson yesterday, however, filed a second bid with the FCC—this time to buy KMED in Medford. Ore., presently owned by Mis. W. J. Vir- Gibson proposes to pay $250,000 Broadcasting Foundation. Cleveland—An order conditionally authorizing WGAR to increase its power from 5,000 to 50.000 watts has been set aside by the FCC lo hear a protect from Allen Simmons, owner of WADC. Akron. For Sale! At a price any client can A NEW KIND OF TRANSPORTATION afford! SHOW! BILL WARE'S IOWA SETUP Chicago, May 21. William (Bill) Ware, western sales WKBW. is not precluded from mak- manager for North Central Broad- ing ume available on any basis for casing System and the Mississippi any and all programs, religious or Valley Network, resigned last week otherwise. Dr. Clinton H. Churchill, to take over as yeepee and general head of the Tabernacle group, stated manager of newly organized Non- that''hundreds of persons'' have re- pareil Broadcasting Co., Council ceived. such FCC answers to their Bluffs. Iowa. protests; , New outfit has applied for per- Former FCC Chairman James L. ■■ forthe Oregon station but. under the 1 mission to operate a five kilowatt Fly came lo Buffalo in connection. Buffalo—Max Miller. Buffalo vio- Col. McCormick said, pointing out FCC's' AVCO rules, will have to , AM station and a 50.000 kilowatt willx the pending litigation, and the . linist. has taken over the music de- that recorders cost more than $400. i buck competition from other bidders. 1 FM station. . .- i visit became the occasion of ex- 1 partment of WBEN. now, and paper used for printing is■: ——■—■ ————~ also expensive. A|so said he doesn't ^ ^—————— know who will find use for it., al- ! though "perhaps Height ships, with 1 their small crews,would find if use- ful; the men could pass Ihe copy around—or it .'may be that it would be of service in fishing camps—or. farmers al a distance, from the city might be interested in such a paper." He added that' farmers and other rural residents are. common beefers about the fact that newspapers reach trtem late, long .after, they've heard the latest news via their radios, but the "fac" editions can conceivably alter that situation, and in ihe nol- too-dislant future. . Trlb will continue its/broadcasts.of the "tabloid tabloids" on Tuesday. Thursday and. Saturday mornings, having set up one of the recorders in its public service offices, across the Loop from the Tower, for rub- berneekers to examine. What they'll see will be the re- corders—about Ihe size of an ordin- ary typewriter—with pages emerg- ing from a slot in the lop of the sel at the rate of an inch a minute, a la newsroom receivers. Columns, for the time being, are a twelfth of an inch narrower than regular news- paper columns. . which run i.wo inches. And "radioed'' onto these columns are news, photos, maps, graphs, comic strips, crossword puz- zles, ads—in fact, ivcrylhing that any newspaper carries. " Rrliiml the Scenes What I hey won't -see. of course, is the scanner isender i. in ihr Trip Tower. News must be specially sel on linotypes that are set lor the thinner columns, and pix have lo be converted into halr-lones. Page proofs are then made on glossy paper, and these pages are placed one after another on a revolving drum associated with the scanner al WGNB's transmitter in the Tower. An electric eye scans each detail of copy and translates each gradation .of black inlo an electrical "Impulse, which in turn is converted into a sound signal and put out over the airwaves by WGNB. Radio signals are picked up through -an FM re- ceiver, and relayed to the "fac re- corder." which in turn passes an electrical impulse through the sen- sitized paper at every point where any gradation of black appears in the original copy. Somewhat similar to clectrd-plni- >ng. action of the electrical impulse on the paper turns it black and thus is obtained a "reasonable facsimile." if not an exact reproduction. Copy of paper reprinted in this manner somewhat resembles Ihe product of photo-offset processes. New:machines, now on order, will triple speed of the present and per- mit a larger page of II'a x 12 inches, with transmission of 2tt square inches of printed matter h minute on lap in the near future. ntvMaml — Vein Piibble. WTAM manager, scored his., second hole in <: "e during b golf match. This time it cann: on the Canterbury scene of tn .e coming National Opens tourna- ment. First hole-in-one came at * !v *r Forrest in Chicago in Au- stin, 1933. This new scries of transcribed half-hour programs is more than just a collection of the best mystery dramas ever produced—either live or recorded. For it represents a new idea in electrical transcriptions—the idea that a transcribed show's - budget should malch ''live" show budgets. As a result, "Murder At Midnight"' bows to no other program on the air. Top-notch writers, actors, directors and producers have collaborated on this new recorded show. Top-notch engi- neering Skill has recorded it. No expense has been spared to make it—vet it's offered at a price 1/2 to .1/3- lower than vou'd expect. And. the result is a witch's broth of shivers and suspense that will knock your audience for a ghoul! TOP NOTCH WWTMS- ROBERT .NEWMAN 'Inner Sumcmiiii. Mystery in 111* Mr. The M«" from 0-2■ BILL MORWOOD 'Biilldoa Onidimo'Kl) SIGMUND MILLER '• Sdiirliim. Sns- pe.isei PETER MARTIN 'Celelx/i 1/ Cfu-li. An American Porlrdin MAX KHRLICH '.Suspense. House 0.1 Mystery, Conulrrspyi; Narration: RAYMOND MORGAN 'flu's Is Your KBI, Fiimauf Jury Truth. Ganybusterx. Coitmerspyi Tiilent i.u/i.des: BARRY HOPKINS. BETTY CA1NE. BERRY KROEGER. AGNES YOUNG. AMZIE STRICKLAND, FRANK BEHRENS. LAWSON ZERBE. ROBERT LYNN, and other well-known network stars. TOP-NOTCH DIRICTION AND PRODUCTION: Director: ANTON M. LEADER _ i/?«<fio Render's ■D.iyesi. Yon Mnl.e il.i.e .Veirs'. .Music JJj jg Director:' CHARLES PAUL 'Mr. «»d .Mrs. \onli, W'erV Qiiee.ii. Producer: LOUIS G. COWAN. INC. , JTH^ vSales. 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