March 1933

Everything is up to date in Kansas City, went the old saying, and it was certainly true in one aspect in March 1933.

W2XAB, the CBS TV station in New York, had suddenly halted its broadcasts in February. With that, the main experimental television transmissions were coming from the Midwest.

The big station seems to have been W9XAL. It was owned by the Kansas City Journal-Post, which also owned KMBC radio. The paper’s Sunday broadcasting page columnist was a chap named John Cameron Swayze (right), who did a six-day-a-week noon newscast that went to the air on both stations. Other radio shows were simulcast. One was a variety show hosted by Emil Chaquette. He was a well-known local bandleader. Swayze profiled him in the paper’s March 5, 1933 edition, including this tale:

The scene was the studios of television station W9XAL. One of the officials was watching the picture produced by the evening television jubilee program. Suddenly he looked at his watch. "I thought that cartoonist was supposed to finish at 8 o'clock," he remarked.
A student spoke up: "Pardon me, sir, but the cartoonist has finished, the jubilee program is on now." He looked at the picture in the receiving set. "That's our program' director's picture you see."
The official started, then looked closer.
It was Emile!

I wonder if the watch was a Timex.

By month's end, Chaquette's show was off the air. An evening interview programme was added.

Also on W9XAL with Ted Malone was singer/announcer Hugh Studebaker, who left for Chicago in 1933 and was part of the supporting company on Fibber McGee and Molly. While he doesn’t talk about television, he does talk about working with Malone in an interview with chronicler Chuck Schaden.



W9XAK at Kansas State College in Manhattan began its programming this month. Other stations were on the air, including W9XK at the University of Iowa, W9YH at the University of Illinois and Purdue University’s W9XG, judging by a story about someone who had built a TV set (not included in this post). Their broadcasts were not for mass entertainment. Elsewhere, W6XAO was still broadcasting limited programming from Los Angeles.

Here are some items for the month, with W9XAL getting the focus. There is an unusual entry about a television show from the National Radio Broadcasting Company in Los Angeles. The next day, the Pasadena Star-News declared “Visual and audible reception of the program were excellent.” I cannot find the company in the 1933 or 1934 City Directories, nor any of the company's principals, and the only TV station license in Los Angeles was held by the Don Lee Broadcasting System.

Wednesday, March 1, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
12:00—Journal-Post News Flashes, with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Rose Nutter and Rhythm Sweeties.

FIRST TELEVISION SET.
The first television radio set to reach this city is now in operation. The set is in the possession of Wade Patrick, pioneer radio dealer of Brookfield [Missouri].
In a broadcast last night [1] the stations of Iowa City, Iowa, and Kansas City, featuring singers, were seen and heard. Television in a commercial sense is still in its infancy, but the set shows what the "hand writing on the wall" for the future of radio will be. The set has seven tubes, and a receiving panel in the top part of the cabinet, which transmits the pictures.
Wade, who was the first to develop the radio business in Brookfield, is still holding to his prestige by being the first with television. (Brookfield Argus, Mar. 1)

W3BBD Known to Hundreds of Operators in All Parts of the World—Owner Also Experiments Successfully With Television
The brilliant flashes of a blue tube and the insane acrobatics of a half dozen dials are the only visible signs to inform the novice that a powerful short wave radio station is operating with the skilled hand of one with years’ of experience at the key.
The station is W3BBD, owned and operated by Conard M. Gilbert, 206 Harding avenue, Collingswood. . .who is 27. . .
Gilbert recently built and operated a television outfit, and succeeded in receiving several pictures from Washington via that channel. However, the pictures were almost illegible, and Gilbert gave up the set until such time as method of sending shall be improved. (Post-Courier, Camden, N.J.)

Thursday, March 2, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
10:00 a.m.—Uncle Ezra’s Ramblings, KMBC.
12:00—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Judy Conrad and Leo Bates, WLBF.

Sound-Sight Program Will Be Open to the Public Friday Over Stations WSUI, W9XK
First public demonstration of a sound-sight program broadcast over radio station WSUI and television station W9XK at the University of Iowa will he made Friday evening [3] at 6:15 o'clock in the chemistry building corridor.
The program will be under the direction of Prof. E. B. Kurtz, head of the electrical engineering department and "father" of the university television elation, first one operating at an American university. The demonstration will precede Professor Kurtz' Baconian lecture at 7 o'clock on "Problems in Television."
A regular WSUI feature will be sent out over the television and radio microphones in the electrical engineering building studios. The program will he received in sound-sight in the corridor of the chemistry building, where visitors will pats on their way to the auditorium for the lecture.
Professor Kurtz in his lecture will explain the fundamental processes of television used in the local station, W9XK. The talk will be illustrated by stereopticon slides showing the principle of operation, as well as pictures of the equipment used. After describing the method of operation involved in transmitting and receiving, he will discuss and explain the important problems that must be solved in order to transmit pictures of larger area and finer texture.
Professor Kurtz has been head of the department of electrical engineering for the last four years. He received his bachelor's degree in 1917 at Wisconsin, and holds the degrees of M.S. in electrical engineering from Union college, Schenectady, N. Y., and E.E. and Ph.D., from Iowa State college at Ames. He was head of the electrical engineering and acting dean of engineering at Oklahoma A. and M. college before coming to Iowa. Sound-sight demonstrations for several faculty groups have been given recently, with Friday night's program the first that has been opened to the public. (Iowa City Press-Citizen)

Mechanism Being Built at K. S. C. Will have Only One Other Equal
A scanning disc which will have but one equal in the United States is now under construction in the college television laboratory by L. C. Paslay and H. H. Higginbottom. The disc is one of the most important parts of the television set and must be constructed with extreme accuracy, said Mr. Paslay. It must be balanced so that it can run smoothly at 1,200 revolutions per minute. This part would take but a short time in comparison with arranging the holes through which the light must be filtered. (Manhattan, Kan. Journal)

Marceline News— Marceline [Missouri] has been well represented on radio programs within the last week. Friday afternoon, Lawrence Patrick, son of Dr. and Mrs. P. L. Patrick, sang from station KMBC, Kansas City. He appeared on the television experimental program. (The Bulletin, Linneus, Mo., Mar. 2)

Friday, March 3, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
12:00—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Rev. Earl A. Blackman, Youth’s Forum, and Four Molton Bros., WLBF.
9:00—Ed Cochrane’s Sports Chat, KMBC.

Kurtz Demonstrates Sight-Sound Program Over W9XK and WSUI
Demonstration and explanation of sound-sight broadcasts as sent out by radio station WSUI and television station W9XK at the University of Iowa was given to about 1,000 persons Friday evening [3] at the chemistry auditorium. It was the first public demonstration of television, with Prof. E. B. Kurtz, head of the electrical engineering department, explaining the operation in his Baconian lecture which followed the broadcast.
The reception was made in the corridor of the chemistry building from 6:45 to 7 o'clock, with the large crowd permitted only a short view and then moved on to make room for others. In his lecture, Professor Kurtz explained the process of changing the light waves reflected from the subject to be broadcast into electric current through a photoelectric cell, transmitted to the receiver, and changed back by the "glow lamp" to the image seen on the screen. (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Mar. 4)

Saturday, March 4, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
12:00—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, Texas Ranger, KMBC.
6:30—Kansas City Bar Association, James M. Johnson, speaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Judy Conrad and Bill and Mary, WLBF.

W9YH, University of Chicago
11:00 to 11:15 a.m.—Television program.

Combined Pictures, Sound Will Be Broadcast Today in First Program Over WILL, W9YH
Combined pictures and sound will be broadcast today by the University on its first publicly announced television program via station W9YH, located in the radio laboratories of the department of electrical engineering, Electrical Engineering laboratory, and the University's radio station, WILL. The program will go on the air from 11 a. m. until 11:15.
F. J. Darke, Jr. '33 and D. E Chapman, graduate student, both of them majors in electrical engineering, are operators of the television set. They have been working on it since last September. Prof. Hugh A. Brown of the department of electrical engineering has acted as their technical adviser.
Last Saturday [Feb. 25] the first program —an experimental program — was broadcast. Today will begin regular Saturday broadcasts with the exception of March 11 and 17, when a conflict on WILL'S program will make television broadcast via that station impossible at 11 a. m.
Ukelele selections and singing by E. J. Emery '35 and a four-minute talk on the history of television by Darke will make up the program which will be broadcast. Darke will be the announcer.
The subjects to be broadcast will stand in the television booth in the radio laboratory with the pictures being sent out directly from W9YH while a wire will carry the sound over to WILL where it will be broadcast. W9YH operates on a frequency of 1884 kilocycles and WILL on 890 kilocycles. W9YH has a 500-watt transmitter, and sends out 45 hole, three spiral, 900 revolutions-per-minute television signals. (Daily Illini)

Monday, March 6, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Gladys Schnorf, pianist, WLBF.

GLADYS SCHNORF ON TELEVISION JUBILEE
Gladys Schnorf, Kansas City pianist will again be featured on the Television Jubilee program, Monday night [6] at 8 o'clock over television station W9XAL.
Her numbers will be "The Fountain" by Provaznik and "The Legend" by Albeniz.
Other artists that have a prominent part in the program during the week are Emile Chaquette, Judy Conrad, Don Watson, Gaylord Bentley. Doris Bicknell, Kitty Evers, Rose Mary Dougherty, Bill and Mary and the Four Milton Brothers. (Kansas City Journal, Mar. 5, 1933)

Masons To See Demonstration Of Television
Pictures Of Dancer, Chief Will Be Broadcast
Pictures transmitted by television will be shown at the stated meeting of Pasadena Masonic Lodge, No. 272, tomorrow night at the Masonic Temple. It will be the first television demonstration held in Pasadena.
Dance Program
Collenette, former Pavlowa dance artist, and one of her ballets will appear on the program, and the Venetian Trio, composed of Robert Olson, piano; Hamilton Lawrence, violin; and Winslow Adams, 'cello,' will play. This year marks the golden anniversary of Pasadena Lodge, the oldest Masonic group in the city and the program is one of a series to mark the fiftieth anniversary.
The television demonstration will tie up a Los Angeles broadcasting station one hour and involve the services of nearly fifty persons. Collenette and Police Chief Charles H. Kelley, the latter a past master of Pasadena Lodge, will be televised from the National Radio Broadcasting studio. Collenette, following her appearance on the dance program, will be taken with Chief Kelley to the television studio by a police escort.
Two Numbers Planned
The Collenette ballet will appear in two numbers, "The Awakening" and a comedy feature. There will also be solo and duet dances. Those to appear are Dorothy Dean, Joanne Turner, Ida Lee, Inetta Buell, Anne Abbott, Phyllis Lee, Mary Beauchamp, Helene Richards, Shirley Nash, Barbara Brooks, May Belle La Rue and Joan Roamer, while principles will be Evelyn Le Moene, Lysle Winter, Thelma Hersey, Jean Allen and Nata Lane.
The television experiment will be explained by Thomas Nikert, radio engineer, and Mr. Haroldsen of the National Radio Television School. L. Rosencranz, also of the television school will be in charge of the receiving equipment. W. G. Patterson of the radio shop bearing his name, will be chairman of the program. Ralph T. Merriam, Pasadena Lodge worshipful master, will preside. The program will follow a short business session. (Pasadena Post, Mar. 5)

Tuesday, March 7, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Emma Pritchard and Dorothy Lang, WLBF.

Wednesday, March 8, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:00—Interview with Karl Moore, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Judy Conrad and Ester Nelson, WLBF.

Thursday, March 9, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
10:00 a.m.—Uncle Ezra’s Ramblings, KMBC.
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Ethel Osborne, Mickey and Margie, WLBF.

BEGIN TELEVISION BROADCASTS SOON
University of Iowa Ready To Begin Regular Schedule of Illustrated Lectures Over Air.
IOWA CITY—University of Iowa's radio and television stations, WSUI and W9XK, are ready to present the first scheduled series of sight-sound educational programs every given by an American university, Prof. Edward B. Kurtz, head of the department of electrical engineering, announced Friday.
Details of the broadcasts are now being arranged and it is expected that a regular schedule of illustrated lectures will commence next week. Illustrated lectures have been chosen for program material because they are adaptable to radio and television synchronization, pictures being confined to small areas with limited details.
At first the broadcasts will probably be made once a wekk, between 7 and 7:30 p.m., the exact evenings being undetermined as yet. Later in the year programs may be given twice or even three times weekly.
While the number of Iowans owning television receiving sets is not known, Prof. Kurtz predicted that the number will increase as sigh-sound programs go on the air. A set can now be purchased for as little as $85.
The first sight-sound program from the synchronized stations was broadcast in January before a group of faculty members. Two later demonstrations, one of them public, have proved that the broadcasts are practical.
Granted in January, 1932, the license for W9XK was the first for a visual station west of the Mississippi. Broadcast hours are unlimited and experimental work, especially that requiring operation of a transmitter, is permitted. (Cedar Rapids Gazette)

Former Eldon Boy’s Work Is Recognized at U. of Minnesota
Max Risley, a former student of Eldon High School, is one of the co-builders of a television set —the first ever constructed at the University of Minnesota—which was the subject of a recent article in The Minneapolis Tribune. His partner in the construction was Robert Campbell and both of them are graduate students at the University.
The set was constructed largely of old parts reclaimed from the university's electrical department "morgue" and made its initial public appearance at a recent meeting of the student chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
The construction required eight months, the students working six hours a day during the first four, and three hours a day during the last two. At present the contrivance is in an elementary stage, but will project a small picture two inches square. The students hope, with more labor, to be able to produce larger and clearer images.
The apparatus is equipped only for direct wire transmission, but Risley and Campbell have been receiving radio television programs nightly from Chicago and Kansas City. Since television broadcasts rarely can be dependable over a distance of more than twenty-five miles, the record is considered remarkable.
Max is the son of Mrs. Ella Risley, of Sherburn, Minn. and the brother of Mrs. John Gattermeir of Olean. (Eldon Advertiser)

Friday, March 10, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Judy Conrad and Bruce Robbins, WLBF.
9:00—Ed Cochrane’s Sports Chat, KMBC.

Saturday, March 11, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, Texas Ranger, KMBC.
4:30—Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
6:30—Kansas City Bar Association, presenting T.J. Madden, speaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Pearl Silvers, WLBF.
W9YH, University of Chicago
11:50 to 12:00 noon—Television program.

'BOOKENDS' DEDICATED TO GIRL SCOUTS
KMBC's popular feature, "Between the Bookends," is to be dedicated to the twenty-first birthday anniversary of the Girl Scout organization when it takes the air at 4:30 o'clock Saturday [11]. The anniversary is on Sunday the following day.
The program will be conducted, as usual by Ted Malone, with Hugh Studebaker furnishing suitable organ music.
Digressing from his usual readings and philosophy, Ted Malone will present Margaret Fifield, leader of the Kansas City Girl Scouts, and a select chorus of girls from the organization.
As "Between the Bookends" is to be broadcast by more than twenty stations of the Columbia network throughout the West, arrangements have been made with the national headquarters to have all troops of the Girl Scouts in Kansas City and in the West gather and tune in for the program. When the group of Kansas City girls sing the Scouting songs, these troops will be requested to join them, making in actuality, the greatest chorus of Girl Scouts ever to sing at one time. (Kansas City Journal-Post, Mar. 5)

Sunday, March 12, 1933
Her Singing Assists In The Emergency Relief Drive, Boston
Miss Sheila O’Donovan Rossa, a mezzo soprano, who has been heard locally many times, is taking an active part in the Boston Emergency Relief drive. Miss Rossa has sung the campaign song “The Mother’s Prayer” in practically every ward in the City, softening the hearts of her audiences and spurring the solicitors on to greater efforts.
Her appearances have been sponsored by Mayor James M. Curley as one of his official efforts.
Miss Rossa is known as “Miss Television” and sings over the international short wave station every Friday night [W1XAV]. (Portland Press Herald)

Monday, March 13, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:00—Roscoe Ates interviewed by Dick Smith, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Gladys Schnorf, pianist, WLBF.

How about Roscoe Ates’ stutter on the radio, would you like it? The stuttering comic arrived in the Heart of America Saturday morning [11] for his 6-say appearance at the Sni-a-Bar Gardens to announce that he was willing to do some air work if he found the right vehicle. So at 4 o’clock Monday you can hear him stuttering at Dick Smith over KMBC and see him over W9XAL. (Kansas City Journal-Post, Mar. 12)

BARKER BROTHERS TO OPEN ELECTRIC SHOW
Starting Monday Barker Brothers are presenting an electrical show, featuring the newest developments in radio refrigeration and electrical aids for the home. A magic electrical kitchen has been constructed where everything is done electrically and which will be open to the public daily. Through the courtesy of the Don Lee television stations and the National Radio and Television School, Barker Brothers will present continuous television programs each day during the exposition from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
[Don Lee was broadcasting W6XS on 140 metres and W6XAO on 6 ¾ metres, 80 line single spiral image repeated 15 times a second.] (Los Angeles Times, Mar. 11)

Tuesday, March 14, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette’s Television Jubilee, WLBF.

Wednesday, March 15, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Helen Lindsey, WLBF.

Thursday, March 16, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette’s Television Jubilee, WLBF.

Motion Pictures Of Quake Sent By Radio Television
LOS ANGELES, March 16.— (AP) —For the first time in history, the station claims, motion picture scenes [Pathe news reel] of a major disaster were transmitted by television, as W6XS, the Don Lee television station here, broadcast scenes of the Long Beach-Compton earthquake area.
Operating simultaneously, the 1,000-watt W6XS and the ultra-short wave sister station, W6XAO, broadcast film scenes showing the survivors, wrecked buildings and the general havoc wrought by last week's shocks.

Friday, March 17, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette’s Television Jubilee with Four Milton Brothers, WLBF.
9:00—Ed Cochrane’s Sports Chat, KMBC.

Engineers’ open house, which last year attracted nearly 7,000 visitors and 5,000 the year before, again will be given for students, townspeople, and the public in general Friday night [17] and all day Saturday at Kansas State. This is the thirteenth presentation of the event.
This year a complete television demonstration will be given as one of the outstanding features of the free educational show. (Manhattan, Ks. Mercury, Mar. 16)

TELEVISION TO START FRIDAY
University Stations to Open Sight-Sound Programs
Inauguration of a regularly scheduled sight-sound series of programs will he started over the University of Iowa's synchronized television and radio stations, W9XK and WSUI, Friday evening at 7:10 o'clock. The sight-sound programs will be given each Friday evening at 7:10 o'clock during the remainder of the semester, according to Prof. E. B. Kurtz, head of the department of electrical engineering who is in charge of the television station.
Friday evening's initial broadcast will include an illustrated lecture on art under the direction of Mr. Aden Arnold [right], instructor in the graphic and plastic arts department, and some readings by speech department members under the direction of Prof. H. C. Harshbarger.
Granted a federal government license in January, 1932, the first synchronized broadcast was given early this year by the university stations. The university license, permitting experimental work in all of the field with unlimited broadcasting time, was the first license issued for a visual station west of the Mississippi river.
Plan of Professor Kurtz and Dr. Bruce E. Mahan, chairman of the radio board, call for the sight-sound series to present a varied type of programs. (Iowa City Press-Citizen)

Television Popular.
Combined television and radio broadcasts, which were put on the air from University of Iowa stations WSUI and W9XX [sic] in the first regular program of a series Friday evening [17], will be continued at least until May, according to Prot. E. R. Kurtz, head of the university electrical engineering department. The presentations are believed to be the first made on a fixed schedule by an educational institution in the United States.
Illustrated lectures, contributed by faculty members, are planned for the series of broadcasts, altho present equipment will make it necessary to confine illustrations to those of a small area, with limited detail. (Quad City Times, Mar. 19)

Saturday, March 18, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, Texas Ranger, KMBC.
6:30—Kansas City Bar Association, presenting James P. Aylward, speaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Judy Conrad and Gaylord Bentley, WLBF.
W9YH, University of Chicago
11:50 to 12:00 noon—Television program.

Sunday, March 19, 1933
Radio School's Music Division Will Be Opened
The National Broadcasting School this evening will entertain the musical world of Los Angeles at the formal opening of its music department. Following a reception in the auditorium of the school a program will be presented, in which modern methods of broadcasting and some tricks of the trade will be displayed. Musical broadcasting, both instrumental and vocal, will be featured, with some discussion by Alexander Bevani, head of the department. Dr. Charles Frederick Lindsley, head of the announcers' school, will be heard in a literary broadcast and Marta Oatman players will present a short radio drama. Harold Isbell, Los Angeles and Chicago announcer, will conduct the program and add to it a number of back-stage novelties. A special feature of the evening will be a television broadcast, in which both the sound and picture will be sent out on the air and received again in the studio. Alberta Campbell Simmons, director of the National Broadcasting School, and Alexander Bevan, head of the department of radio singing, have been figures in the musical life of Los Angeles for the past decade. (Los Angeles Times)

Monday, March 20, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Gladys Schnorf, pianist, WLBF.

Tuesday, March 21, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette’s Television Jubilee, WLBF.

Wednesday, March 22, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Judy Conrad and Gaylord Bentley, WLBF.

VERGIL TACY ANNOUNCES TELEVISION PROGRAMS
Vergil Tacy, son of Mr and Mrs. T. O. Tacy, 471 Park avenue, is announcing the weekly television programs for stations WSUI and 49XU at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
The programs, which are believed to be the first of their kind broadcast regularly west of the Mississippi river, are on the air every Friday at 7:10 p. m. Tacy not only announces the programs but also takes part in them.
He is a junior in the college of liberal arts and will enter the law school next year. He is a graduate of Abraham Lincoln high school. (Council Bluffs Nonpareil

Thursday, March 23, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
10:00—Uncle Ezra’s Ramblings, KMBC
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette’s Television Jubilee, WLBF.

Friday, March 24, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
8:00—Emile Chaquette with Judy Conrad, WLBF.
9:00—Ed Cochrane’s Sports Chat, KMBC.

DENTAL TALK BY TELEVISION
Dr. Charles L. Drain to Give Address Over Station Here
Believed to be the first dental talk ever carried by a television station in the world, Dr. Charlee L. Drain of the college of dentistry faculty will speak Friday night in the sight-sound program over the University of Iowa radio and television stations, WSUI and W9XK. Doctor Drain will talk on the subject of "Oral Hygiene" at 7:10 o'clock.
Following the lecture, selections will be given by members of the music, speech and arts department, according to Prof. E. B. Kurtz, head of the electrical engineering department and director of the television station. The sight-sound programs were inaugurated last week as a regular Friday evening feature. (Iowa City Press-Citizen)

Saturday, March 25, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, Texas Ranger, KMBC.
6:30—Kansas City Bar Association, presenting Henry M. Beardsley, speaker, KMBC.
W9YH, University of Chicago
11:00 to 11:15 a.m.—Television program.

VACATE ORDER OF ASSET SALE
WILMINGTON, Del., March 25—(AP)—Judge John P. Nields in federal court today vacated his recent order for the sale next Tuesday of assets of the Jenkins Television Corporation.
The court stated that it had not been sufficiently advised as to the value of the corporation’s assets and of the necessity for the sale.
It was stated here that the proposed sale of the assets of the DeForest Radio Corporation to the Radio Corporation of America for about $500,000 was contingent on the ability of the receivers also to deliver the assets of the Jenkins Corpoation.

Sunday, March 26, 1933
Television Permit Denied
Application of the Visual Radio Corporation of Watsontown, Pa., for authority to erect a new 1,000-watt experimental television station later to be operated in Philadelphia, has been denied by the Federal Radio Commission, which has sustained the finding of its examiner that the proposed venture would not add to the scientific knowledge or development of television. (Washington Sunday Star)

Monday, March 27, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.

Sending and receiving of radio programs by television in full view of the audience, will be demonstrated at the Minneapolis Auto, Home and Flower show, which opens next Monday [27] at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Arrangements for this feature were completed today by George K. Belden and H. H. Cory, show manager, following a conference with Dr. George W. Young of WDGY.
A 500-watt broadcasting station, the first of its kind in the northwest, will be installed in the auditorium. The broadcasting and receiving booths will be located so show visitors will be able to watch both operations. The receiving set will reproduce a picture 14 inches square, and represents the latest equipment in this branch of radio. (Minneapolis Star, Mar. 20)

Lou Breese will attempt a novel experiment in that he will direct the orchestra by remote control, the musicians responding to the waving of his baton as his image is shown on the screen. (Minneapolis Journal, Mar. 26)

One of the spots that attracted much attention was the television booth. Starting at 1 p. m., demonstrations were staged every 20 minutes. That schedule will be maintained the remainder of show week. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Mar. 28)

Tuesday, March 28, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone, KMBC.

Wednesday, March 29, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
2:45—Television interview with Ted Malone, KMBC. 4:30—Between the Bookends, KMBC.
9:30—9:30—First National Television interview, KMBC.

Thursday, March 30, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends, KMBC.
9:30 to 10:00 p.m.—Television interview with Ted Malone, KMBC.

TELEVISION!
An event of unusual interest from both a scientific and entertainment standpoint is slated for next Thursday [30] and Friday when, for the first time, a complete motion picture feature production will be broadcast over radio-television. "The Crooked Circle," World Wide picture, featuring Ben Lyon, Zasu Pitts, James Gleason and Irene Purcell has been selected. A special demonstration, open without charge to the public, will be on view at Barker Brothers' radio department. [The film aired without sound] (Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, Mar. 25)

SCIENCE MEET SET
Gathering at Manhattan to Be April 13-15.
MANHATTAN, KAS., March 30.— (Special)—Dr. George F. Johnson, secretary of the Kansas Academy of Science, has announced the program of the sixty-fifth annual meeting of the academy, to be held at Kansas State college here April 13, 14 and 15. . . .
Plans are being made to stage a television exhibition for the visiting academy members. An address by Dr. J C. Peterson of Kansas State college will be broadcast from Denison hall and flashed on the television screen in Engineering hall, through the equipment of television station W9XAK. (Kansas City Journal, Mar. 30)

Friday, March 31, 1933
W9XAL, Kansas City
11:50—Journal-Post News Flashes with John Cameron Swayze, KMBC.
12:15—Tex Owens, KMBC.
4:30—Between the Bookends with Ted Malone and Hugh Studebaker, KMBC.
9:30—Interview with Ted Malone, KMBC.

PLAN EVENING OF FELLOWSHIP
Junior, Senior Chambers Of Commerce Will Dine Friday
Members of the Iowa City senior and junior chambers of commerce will meet together Friday night [31] for an evening of entertainment, fellowship, and fun, the feature of which will be a program of television, to be broadcast by station W9XK of the University of Iowa.
The special event has been called, "Goodfellows Night", and will begin with a dinner at 6:15 o'clock Friday night at the American Legion Community building. Community singing will follow the dinner and shortly before 7:10 o'clock, the television will get underway.
The television broadcast, enabling the members to not only hear but see the broadcast, will he made from the television studios in the electrical engineering building of the University of Iowa and will be received at the Legion building on one of the latest approved commercial television receiving sets.
Prof. E. B. Kurtz, of the college of engineering, director of the television station, will be in charge of the program and will present a brief explanatory address before the broadcast. Mr. Carl Menzer, director of radio station WSUI, will announce the program over the air and Mr. J. L. Patter, operator of station W9XK, will have charge of operating the station. (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Mar. 30)

Complete Program For Joint Meeting Chambers Commerce
Program for the joint meeting of the Iowa city junior and senior chambers of commerce, to be held beginning at 6:15 o'clock Friday night [31] at the American Legion Community building, was announced Thursday by Mr. D. W. Crum, senior secretary. . . .
The feature of the program will be the receiving of a television program to be broadcast from the University of Iowa television station W9XK and WSUI. The television program will include a skit by Wanda Mathison and Bernice Erlandson of the university speech department, and a short talk, "The Language of the Architect," by Prof. F. G. Higbee, of the college of engineering. (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Mar. 30)

REGULAR TELEVISION SCHEDULE AT COLLEGE
Programs on Tuesday and Thursday Evenings Broadcast Over W9XAK
The Kansas State college television broadcasting station W9XAK went on the air this week on regular schedule. Two broadcasts are scheduled for each week, one Tuesday and the other Saturday, from 6:30 to 7:15 o'clock. Those participating in the programs this week were Miss Roberta Shannon, reader; Max Burk, trombone; W. M. Sandel, harmonica; Tom Haines, trumpet and guitar; and William Fitch, oboe. Vinton Johnson has been in charge.
The broadcasts have been confined to pictures of those taking part in the program, no sound being broadcast. It is hoped that station KSAC can be synchronised with the picture broadcasts so that sound and pictures can be put onto the air at the same time.
Prof. R. G. Kloeffler, head of the electrical engineering department, and H. H. Higginbottom, one of the men who set up the station, went toward Topeka Thursday afternoon in automobiles with television receivers and tests were made at various points. The college station was on the air with a test program. (Manhattan Morning Chronicle, Mar. 31)

TV Comes to New Mexico

Television exploded in 1948.

At the start of the year, there were 18 TV stations in the U.S. At the end, Television magazine reported 52 were on the air with 69 more approved by the FCC.

When the calendar flipped over to January 1948, television was mostly for eastern eyes. The exceptions were two stations in Los Angeles, one in Chicago, and one in St. Louis. As the year rolled along, people in several other cities in the West were able to buy sets and pick up a brand-new local station.

One of those cities was Albuquerque, probably known in those days for being a Santa Fe rail stop where people could buy Native American goods.

The city had (and still has) a clear-channel radio station named KOB whose owners decided, like other broadcasters, to jump into television. The war got in the way.

The Albuquerque Journal was in the radio business and decided television was its next step. The paper announced on Dec. 17, 1943:

Plan Television Station Here
Sports and Film Broadcasts Proposed
The Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. has filed application for construction of a new experimental television station here, the first of its kind filed in the Rocky Mountain area, company officials announced Thursday [16]. Pending approval of the application in Washington, officials of the company are studying plans for purchase of the latest type of equipment. It probably will be after the war before equipment can be obtained and the station constructed even with the approval of the federal officials.
The company proposed the purchase of a number of receiving sets to install in public places here and it was stressed that all equipment would be standardized.
Although most of the programs from the station here would consist of film, the television counterpart of transcription, stress would be laid on experimental broadcasting of local events, such as football games. One official said experiments in New York have shown that radio “games,” such as Charades, in which the general public can participate, have been highly successful.
The films would be obtained through a new television library service in the East.
Other cities in the country which have extensive plans for post-war television broadcasts are Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. operates station KOB.

The application was revised the following year. The Journal’s rival, the Albuquerque Tribune, published this story on July 18, 1944.

NEW TELEVISION BID MADE BY KOB
Requested Commercial Set-up Would Mean Wider Use of Facilities

Albuquerque will have a commercial television broadcast station when production of television equipment is resumed, if the application of the Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. is approved by the Federal Communications Commission, Frank Quinn, manager of KOB, announced today.
The station will be operated on channel No. 1, from 50,000 to 56,000 kilocycles, he said.
Application previous made for en experimental license was withdrawn and a commercial license asked to permit wider use of facilities and more complete public service, according to Mr. Quinn.
The company already has placed an order for a television transmitter with RCA and will begin broadcasting as soon as a transmitter is received and set up, regardless of how few people as yet own television receiving equipment.
Broadcasts will be for a limited number of hours each day at their inception, and will in no way resemble current programs.
Some programs may be rebroadcast from film recordings, as was done by NBC with the Republican convention, he said.
The Albuquerque Broadcasting Co., was among the first in the country, and the first station in the western mountain group, to apply for a television license.

Things remained relatively quiet for about a year. Broadcasting magazine gave an update on May 27, 1946; Channel 1 had been retired for commercial purposes.

Tuesday, May 21
TWO MORE commercial televisiostations for Baltimore and one for Albuquerque were authorized by the FCC last Tuesday [21].The Baltimore grants went to Hearst Radio Inc. (WBAL) and Radio-Television of Baltimore Inc. The one for Albuquerque went to Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. (KOB). ...
KOB's television grant was for use of Channel No. 2, 54-60 mc, with 15-kw visual and 8-kw aural power and antenna height 100 feet above ground and 5,240 above sea level.

1946 became 1947 which became 1948. It almost became 1949 before the station began full-time televising. The Journal of Oct. 7, 1946 noted a plot of land for the station had been picked and studio equipment was to arrive in the spring. Along the way, the FCC reassigned the station to Channel 4 and kept allowing the owners to push back the day of the first broadcast. There was a demonstration broadcast for reporters and RCA dealers on July 28, 1948, though not all the equipment had been installed.

The station’s premiere was on November 29, 1948. The day before, the Journal gave a page-one preview.

KOB Television Starts Regular Programs Monday
Albuquerque Station To Present 5-Day Weekly Schedule
Television comes to Albuquerque Monday afternoon via Station KOB-TV, New Mexico's first television station.
First official TV broadcast is a two and one half hour program scheduled from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Monday and the station thereafter will operate five days each week—Monday through Friday, it was announced by George Johnson, KOB [engineer].
At first the station will use tele-transcriptions for its broadcasts, but later plans to televise local events. Equipment for televising programs in Albuquerque is already on hand.
The tele-transcriptions are recordings of eastern network programs shipped here by air express. They consist chiefly of sporting events, variety and informative programs featuring New York talent.
Equipment Best
The KOB-TV broadcasts are sent on a different wave band than the regular KOB broadcasts and will in no way interfere with the regularly scheduled network and local programs.
Johnson emphasized that KOB's television equipment "is the best obtainable" and is comparable to that being used by large TV stations in the east.
He said KOB-TV would "start slowly and expand steadily, with our chief concern being to produce the best possible results." In other cities some TV stations attempted to do too much in the initial stages, with a result that programs suffered, he added.
At the outset programs will be timed to benefit both "the limited number of receiver-owners here and local dealers," Johnson said. He estimated there were perhaps 100 television receivers in the KOB-TV range which extends from Bernalillo to Belen.
Wide Range
During experimental broadcasts, however, KOB-TV has been picked up by receivers as far north as Los Alamos and 18 miles eastward in Tijeras Canyon, Johnson reported.
The engineer assured prospective purchasers of television sets that they need not fear their receivers will soon be outmoded.
"Television receivers are now built with well-standardized circuits,” he said. "Set buyers need not fear obsolescence. Of course, there will be minor improvements as have been developed in radio receivers, but buyers of television sets need not fear their receivers will be outmoded soon."
KOB-TV first signed contracts for its television equipment in June, 1946. First items began arriving in December, 1947 and last of the equipment was delivered only a few days ago.
New Building
Television equipment and studios are housed in a modern structure in the 900 block of South Buena Vista, site of the old airways station.
The equipment includes two complete transmitters--one for sound and the other for pictorial broadcasts—tele-transcription camera, two other cameras for televising local events, and a micro-wave relay system used to relay televised programs from the locality in which they take place to the main station.
One feature of television's debut here will be to bring Albuquerqueans their first experience with Frequency Modulation (FM) sound, which Johnson described as of "exceptional brilliance and clarity."

The paper listed the inaugural schedule:

2:30 Test pattern to adjust cameras and music.
3:00 NBC Salute to KOB-TV
3:35 Doorway to Fame
4:00 Frying Pan in the Fire
4:30 Howdy-Doody (puppet program)
5:00 Sign-off

The Journal gave this assessment of the first day of programming in its edition the following morning, concentrating on the signal rather than the programme quality.

Thousands View Television Debut As Sales Boom
Albuquerque got its first glimpse of television Monday afternoon, as Station KOB-TV went on the air for its official opening.
Several thousand persons saw parts of the first day's program. Television receiving set salesmen reported business was good.
Station officials said quality of the programs and of the transmission will get steadily better. They announced plans to expand the telecasting time to include evening programs twice a week. Pictures of a boxing match are scheduled for Wednesday, beginning at 7 p.m., according to George Johnson, engineer. Pictures of wrestling will be telecast Friday, beginning at 7 p.m. The programs, the same as are shown over eastern stations, are being flown here to be put on the air.
Warm-up Period
Afternoon programs will be continued from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. The afternoon schedule calls for a half-hour of a test pattern—to permit warming up and adjustment of receiving sets—followed by two hours of programs. A still picture is telecast for five or 10 minutes between the half-hour programs to aid in readjustment of sets, Johnson said.
He said plans call for the evening telecasts to be continued twice a week for several weeks, and then to be increased in number.
"We will schedule our programs in accordance with the needs of those having receiving sets," Johnson said. “This being a small city, we can keep close check on needs of the set owners."
Dealers Display Sets
Most of the several thousand persons who got glimpses of the television programs Monday — their first view of television for most of them—saw the programs on sets installed by dealers. There were several in operation downtown, either in show windows or back in the stores. A number of other persons saw the programs on a set in the lobby of the KOB studio downtown. Several bars which have installed sets reported attendance was good. Dealers reported the response of the public was good, and a number of sets were sold to persons who had dropped in to get their first sight of television.

The front-page of the Journal on December 1 read:

Better Reception Reported on KOB Video Programs
Persons looking—and listening to sets tuned to KOB-TV Tuesday, got better reception on that second day of video programming in New Mexico.
This was the opinion of George S. Johnson, television engineer for KOB, who said that he had received numerous calls during the day complimenting the station on the improved quality of reception over the inaugural day, Monday.
"We had a much more successful operation Tuesday," Johnson said. "A number of the 'bugs' which we expected on the first day on the air and of which we had an over-abundance, were ironed out."
The new station will televise its first evening program tonight beginning at 6:15 p. m. A test band will open at that time for fifteen minutes to adjust receivers and then the entertainment will begin. Highlight of tonight's show will be a televising of boxing matches, Johnson said.
Interest in television sets took a sharp upward turn Tuesday, many stores reported. Small crowds gathered around the sets placed in operation for display purposes during the afternoon show. A number of sales were reported.
Johnson estimated that there were between 75 and 100 sets now in operation in Albuquerque. A number of other sets which have been sold during the past few days, will not be receiving until installation by a trained video serviceman has been accomplished. A possibility of a backlog in installation services loomed Tuesday as the sales of new sets boomed.
The present 12-hour weekly program will be maintained for at least a couple of months, Johnson said.
"We want to be sure that we can give consistently good entertainment, both from a technical and program standpoint," he said, "before we try to carry too much of a load.
"A number of persons who have become familiar with television in eastern cities have informed us that our service is comparing very favorably with other established television stations."

KOB-TV was in a fortunate position to build an audience. Earlier in the year, the FCC slapped a temporary ban on new television licenses. After it was ended, Albuquerque didn’t a second TV station until KOAT (which also had a radio operation) went on the air on Oct. 2, 1953.

Let's Watch Some 1947 Television

In the days before kinescope, almost the other way a television show would be recorded if it was the subject of a movie short or an industrial film.

There were attempts to come up with TV recording devices and at least one was tested.

Remarkably, snippets of recordings from 1947 and 1948 have survived. And someone has posted a compilation on the internet.

The first of these were tests made for WNBT. Two of the dates on the slates are from these days:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947
WNBT (NBC), Channel 4, New York City
8:00—“Author Meets the Critics,” The World Within.
8:30—NBC Television Newsreel.
8:40—Musical Merry-Go-Round, with Jack Kilty.
9:00—“You Are an Artist,” with John Gnagy, sponsored by Gulf.
9:10—“Eyewitness,” sponsored by RCA.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1947
WNBT (NBC), Channel 4, New York City
1:00—Swift Home Service Club with Tex and Jinx.
1:30—NBC Television Newsreel.
6:30—Children’s Hallowe’en Party.
8:00—Campus Hoopla, with Bob Stanton and coach Lou Little, sponsored by U.S. Rubber.
8:20—The World in Your Home, sponsored by RCA Victor.
8:42—Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, Boxing at Madison Square Garden, Gus Lesnevich vs. Tami Mauriello.

Below is footage of Bob Emery talking to young race drivers, John Gnagy drawing, Tex and Jinx being Tex and Jinx, portions of several episodes of Kraft Television Theatre (your announcer is Ed Herlihy), and Bert Parks being over-the-top (with Raymond Scott’s “Dinner Music For a Pack of Hungry Cannibals” in the background of one sequence). And the sketch on the Campus Hoopla show may have made the sponsor say "I paid for THIS??".

But there isn’t just WBNT programming on this reel. There’s a wrestling match from W6XAO called by the great Dick Lane. An Arkansas Mule Kick!

Jason Merrick passed along this link to me, so I thank him.

December 1937

W2XBS was set to move on to the new step in television in December 1937. That’s when it got mobile vans that would enable it to cover horse racing, baseball, football and other outdoor events, beaming them to its transmitter at the Empire State Building.

Mind you, there were still few television sets in New York not in the hands of RCA engineers.

Little else happened during the month. Du Mont and Philco were granted FCC licenses. A company pushing colour TV conducted more tests. W6XAO talked about more simulcasts with KHJ radio. And RCA’s David Sarnoff made more prediction.

There was also a puzzling item about WHO in Des Moines conducting TV tests in the medium wave (its regular AM frequency). As the station had no TV license and television was not permitted on those frequencies, perhaps it was testing fax transmissions. The year ended with the following experimental licensees:

Columbia Broadcasting System, New York, N. Y., W2XAX (later W2XAB)
Don Lee Broadcasting System, Los Angeles, Calif., W6XAO
Farnsworth Television, Inc., of Pa., Springfield, Pa., W3XPF (C.P. only)
First National Television, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., W9XAL
General Television Corp., Boston, Mass., W1XG
The Journal Company, Milwaukee, Wis., W9XD
Kansas State College of A. & A. S., Manhattan, Kansas, W9XAK
National Broadcasting Co., Inc., New York, N. Y W2XBS
National Broadcasting Co., Inc., New York, N. Y W2XBT
Philco Radio & Television Corp., Philadelphia, Pa., W3XE
Philco Radio & Television Corp., Philadelphia, Pa., W3XP (C.P. only)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., W9XG
Radio Pictures, Inc., Long Island City, N. Y., W2XDR
RCA Mfg. Co., Inc. (Portable), Bldg. No. 8 of Camden Plant, W3XAD
RCA Mfg. Co., Inc., Camden, N. J., W3XEP
RCA Mfg. Co., Inc., Portable— Mobile, W10XX
The Sparks-Withington Co., Jackson, Mich., W8XAN
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, W9XK
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, W9XUI
Dr. George W. Young, Minneapolis, Minn., W9XAT

CBS was not on the air yet and I doubt that John L.V. Hogan’s W2XDR had been telecasting in years. By 1941, the call letters were being used by WOR’s FM station.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1937
The fight to get television is warming up. WHO, Des Moines, Ia., ruler of the 1000 kilocycle wave length, has chased KFVD off the air between 10 and 11 o’clock at night to conduct experiments. Early in 1938 KHJ will try out its new television apparatus embracing inventions and principles evolved during seven years of research. The sight and sound broadcasts will be sent over the Mutual system. (Reg Warren, Pasadena Star-News)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1937
W9XK, University of Iowa
7:15 to 7:30—Television program with radio station WSUI, 910 kcs.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937
Coast Television Service Promised for Next Year
West Coast Bureau, RADIO DAILY
Los Angeles — Lewis Allen Weiss, Don Lee web's general manager, promises a series of regular television broadcasts from the network's short wave W6XAO beginning early in 1938. KHJ has been active in research and practical television for many years, under the direction of Harry R. Lubke [sic].

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1937
ENGINEERS SEEK MORE AID TO TELEVISION
Satisfied with 1,000,000-cycle tests on the coaxial cable or television "pipe" between New York and Philadelphia, engineers of the Bell Telephone laboratories are now changing the terminal equipment to handle 2,000,000 cycles. The cable will then be able to transmit 480 simultaneous telephone conversations and 480-line television pictures. The recent demonstration featured 240-line images. (Spokane Spokesman-Review)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937
W9XK, University of Iowa
7:15 to 7:30—Television program with radio station WSUI, 910 kcs.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937
PHILCO GETS U.S. TELEVISION PERMIT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—(U. P.)—The Federal Communications Comission today granted the Philco Radio & Television Corp. of Philadelphia a permit to construct a television broadcast station at Philadelphia. The station will operate on an experimental basis on frequencies of 20,400 to 210,000 kilocycles.

Radio Concerns Concede Dumont Television Permit
According to word received yesterday [9] from the Allen B. Dumont Laboratories, Inc., Upper Montclair, agreement was reached during the week by counsel for two radio concerns which stated they had no objection to Dumont's application for a television broadcast license.
The Columbia Broadcasting System and the Philco Radio and Television Co. informed a communications commission examiner that Dumont had agreed to conduct his broadcasts on 50,000 to 56,000 kilocycles, fifty watts power, from midnight to 9 A. M. so the broadcasting would not interfere with the companies' broadcasts. (Montclair Times, Dec. 10)

200 Tele News Clients Expected in Six Months
Peck Television Corp. yesterday [9] inaugurated the first commercial television transmission in this country when its news service began operation. Announcement was made at initial transmission that service will have 200 clients within six months. Transmission of news bulletins will be directed to public and semi-public meeting places such as hotels, bars and eating places.
At the same time it was also learned that Peck Television will place a 441 -line television receiving set on the market within six months to retail at approximately $250, marking the first time such a set has been placed before the listening public in this country. Sets will be equipped with 14 x 16-inch screen.
News service is capable of being transmitted over either coaxial cable or leased lines. At present Peck is using lines, and power of 50 to 30,000 cycles. Peck will apply for shortwave channel shortly, and when accepted, will be able to send bulletins 72 miles.
Reception witnessed yesterday was still far from perfect. Attempts to use colors other than black and white were not successful. (Radio Daily, Dec. 10)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1937
Mobile Television Unit Ready for Outdoor Tests
Ceremonies to Be Conducted on WJZ This Afternoon as RCA Presents NBC With First Television Machine of Its kind in the U. S.
America's first mobile television station, soon to be used in experimental television pick-ups of outdoor events of interest, will be turned over to the National Broadcasting Company by RCA with special ceremonies to be broadcast over WJZ during the Magic Hey Hour at 2 p. m.
The new unit, consisting of two large motor vans, containing television control apparatus and microwave transmitter, has just been completed at the RCA laboratories in Camden. NBC engineers plan to operate the unit in connection with the present NBC television transmitter atop the Empire State tower.
To Televise Outdoor Events