Weekly television digest (Jan-Dec 1960)
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NOVEMBER 28, 1960
TV-RADIO EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Exports of TV sets in
August were the highest since last May, according to Commerce Dept, estimates. They showed 8,913 receivers & 1,687 TV chassis shipped to foreign countries during the month.
Because of differing definitions & classifications, export & import figures can’t be compared directly, but the following tables sum up major classifications of consumer electronic & related exports & imports. In the tables, the largest customer or largest supplier is given for each category; where 2 countries are given for a single category, one was the largest in unit number, the other in dollars.
Here are the summaries of Census Dept, export & import data for Aug. 1960;
U.S. EXPORTS— AUGUST 1960
Product
Units
$
Biggest Customer
TV receivers
8,913
$1,215,981
Venezuela (3,188 at $420,422)
TV chassis
1,687
124,561
Uruguay (830 at $50,668)
Auto radios
3,134
82,661
Canada (1,707 at $39,311)
Home radios
8,454
254,751
Canada (4,254 at $86,376)
Radio chassis
3,688
26,780
Chile (3,100 at $14,552)
Radio-phonos
491
43,581
Guatemala (159 at $7,016) Canada (74 at $11,707)
Phonographs
2,671
136,725
Venezuela (913 at $43,377)
Coin-op. phonos ..
964
623,536
W. Germany (287 at $195,166)
phono parts
—
371,781
U.K. ($84,695)
TV picture tubes
107,299
2,069,695
Argentina (30,444 at $533,334)
Recorders & parts
—
992,015
Canada ($254,004)
Transistors, diodes
723,310
1,307,040
Canada (144,240 at $203,548) U.K. (51,125 at $237,087)
Receiving tubes ..
1,626,707
1,249,720
Argentina (437,891 at $250,893) Canada (247,302 at $279,811)
TV transmitters & parts
198,692
W. Germany ($58,950)
TV studio equip. ..
—
1,206,739
Canada ($245,459)
TV camera tubes ..
122
102,333
Japan (50 at $59,050)
U.S. IMPORTS— AUGUST 1960
Product
Units
$
Biggest Supplier
Transistor radios ..
676,292
$5,724,703
Japan (666,604 at $5,627,464)
Portable tube radios
57,324
391,382
Japan (52,635 at $310,852)
Other radios
91,843
935,204
Japan (76,490 at $487,790)
Radio-phonOs
7,120
609,496
W. Germany (5,203 at $518,4141
Phonographs
1,560
31,844
Japan (828 at $17,424)
Changers,
turntables
576,658
U.K. ($420,662)
Radio tubes
3,154,591
1,018,071
Japan (1,816,236 at $497,178)
Radio parts
—
1,628,552
Japan ($588,339)
TV tubes & parts
—
19,939
Netherlands ($10,239)
TV parts, etc
—
123,384
France ($40,004)
TV cameras, parts
—
59,425
■
U.K. ($55,301)
Japan’s TV-Radio Exports: TV showed up strongly in
September for the first time in Japanese figures on exports to the U.S. Japanese govt, statistics showed 2,305 sets were sent to this country that month, at a total value of $111,111 (declared custom clearance value), as opposed to 322 sets at $19,238 for the other 8 months of 1960. TV shipments to the U.S. in 1959 were nil.
The 2,305 sets average out to a cost of $48.20 each. These presumably were mostly Delmonico 19-in. sets, with possibly a smattering of Star Lite 8-in. (retail $88) receivers (Vol. 16:40 pl5). The Delmonico sets are shipped here without picture tubes, the 19-in. tubes being added here — hence the stated value is misleadingly low.
Other 9-month Japanese electronic-product exports to U.S. (corresponding 9-month 1959 figures in parentheses): Radios, 3 or more transistors, 2,944,534 at $39 million (2,449,534): tape recorders, 101,967 at $4,679,969 (41,000 for all of 1959); radio-phonos, 21,369 (12,211); radios, less than 3 transistors, 1,767,081 (1,148,008); tube radios, 461,255 (302,966).
Trade Personals: p. j. Casella, RCA consumer-products
exec, vp until his reassignment in July to the international div. (Vol. 16:28 pl5), has resigned from the corporation, an RCA spokesman has confirmed. Casella tells us he has a 10-year retirement contract that runs through 1970, his future plans are indefinite, his immediate plans call for a 6-month European vacation starting shortly after the first of the year.
Jack S. Beldon, RCA Sales Corp. president until his resignation from that post in August (Vol. 16:34 pl6), has also tendered his resignation to the corporation, it’s reliably reported. Although Beldon told us last week that “I’m still with RCA at the present time,” it’s understood he leaves officially Dec. 1.
Bryce S. Durant moves up to RCA Sales Corp. product planning & development mgr., succeeding James M. Toney, who was reassigned last month (Vol. 16:43 pl8) to staff of Sales Corp. Chmn.-Pres. W. Walter Watts, as vp in charge of special projects. Durant had been sales planning & development mgr. for RCA radio & “Victrola” wing.
Ernest L. Ward elected president of Sprague Electric Co., succeeding the late Julian K. Sprague. The following were named senior vps: William J. Nolan, legal affairs; Neal W. Welch, mktg. & sales; Wilbur A. Lazier, technical dir.; Robert C. Sprague Jr., industrial relations. Named vps: David B. Peck, special products; Hollis R. Wagstaff, fiscal; Carroll G. Killen, industrial & military sales; Bruce R. Carlson, corporate planning systems.
Robert E. Hogan named Packard Bell industrial relations vp . . . Dr. Charles F. Robinson, Bell & Howell Research Center dir. elected vp of subsidiary Consolidated Electrodynamics . . . Edward L. Lavine, ex-Ling Electronics, named vp-gen. mgr.. Communications Measurements Lab . . . George E. Tirone Jr. promoted from Du Mont Labs international div. technical product sales head, to the new post of mktg. mgr., for 4 industrial electronic product lines.
Portus M. Wheeler named vp-gen. mgr., Indiana Steel Products div. of Indiana General Corp. . . Alwyn L. Carty Jr. promoted from contracts dir. to customer-relations mgr., Adler Electronics military products div. . . . Richard J. Bamberry, ex-Admiral Corp., appointed vp, American Concertone & parent Astro-Science Corp.
Elmer Metz named asst, community sales mgr., Jerrold Electronics; Jim Forgey appointed Western regional mgr., community-sales div. . . . Ted Cutler named distributor sales mgr.. Radio Receptor Co., a General Instrument Corp. subsidiary . . . William E. McKenna, Litton Industries treas. & controller, and Crosby M. Kelly, in charge of advertising, PR & employe communications, named vps.
F. L. Ankenbrandt named to new post of defense-product assurance mgr., RCA; Earl W. Russell named to new post of supplier relations administrator, RCA industrial electronic products . . . Clifford A. Busse named operations vp, Siegler Corp.’s Hallamore Electronics div.
Tiros II weather satellite, like its younger brother Tiros I (Vol. 16:15 pll), was developed by RCA’s astroelectronics div. and contains 2 tiny vidicon cameras with tape recorders to store the slow-scan pictures. Tiros I is still in orbit, its radio still operating, but it no longer is sending out pictures. During its lifetime, it took 23,962 pictures. Tiros I was launched last April 1, Tiros II Nov. 23.
Sonotone has licensed Japan’s Furukawa Battery Co. to develop, produce and sell Sonotone’s nickel-cadmium batteries in Japan and other Far Eastern territories.