Judging by a letter to the New York Sun, it appears the (mis)fortunes of the Jenkins company forced W3XK and W2XAP to sign off. But CBS added a high frequency station to accompany W2XAB while the University of Kansas put its experimental station on the air.
Out on the West Coast, the Don Lee outfit changed the hours it was broadcasting pictures that month.
Regretfully to readers today, the Sun, the only newspaper I can find with television listings, decided to drop its programme schedules and, instead, published hours of operation only. We suspect W2XAB continued with many of the shows it was airing. The Sun used its television section on stories, and diagrams, on building sets.
W9XAK, the Kansas City University station, was on the air. So were W9XAO and W9AXP in Chicago, according to an article in the Des Moines Register.
Perhaps the biggest story for the month was the election night broadcast on CBS. Cameras were still studio-bound and could not film large pictures, so coverage was pretty rudimentary. But it was a first.
There were demonstrations of television in various American cities, as well as Montreal, where regular service appears to have ended. Internationally in November, BBC aimed a TV signal at Denmark, and Mussolini appeared on the small screen in Italy. On time, I suspect.
Here are available schedules, and a few stories, for the month.
Tuesday, November 1, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Fashion Show, Gladys Kahn.
8:15—Baby Ruth Parkin, juvenile performer, dance and song act.
8:25—Correct time.
8:30—Peggy Soennecksen, pianist.
8:45—Songs, Sylvia Sherry and Saul Meerowitz.
9:00—One man jazz band, featuring Vincent “Blue” Mondi.
9:15—Oneida Wright, accordionist
9:30—Three-round boxing bout. Blow by blow description by Dick Madeo on sound side of sight band.
9:45—“Physical Culture,” Tommy Madden.
W2XBS (NBC), New York, 143 meters. (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR (Radio Pictures), New York/Long Island City
5:00—Experimental program.
7:00—Cartoons.
8:00—Films with sound.
9:00—Cartoons.
W3XK (Jenkins Laboratories), Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-10:00—Experimental film programs.
10:00-11:00—Direct pickup.
W2XAP (Jenkins Television), Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00—Direct pickup.
8:00-9:00—Direct pickup.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-11:00—Experimental programs.
Station W9XAK, the Kansas State college visual radio broadcasting station, will go on the air tonight from 8 to 9 o’clock with its first regular program. The station was recently issued a license to broadcast on a frequency of 2150 kilocycles and will be on the air regularly each Monday. Wednesday and Friday night from 8 to 9 o’clock hereafter.
The station has been built around the equipment of the old KSAC transmitter by L. C. Pasley, H. H. Higgenbottom, and W. R. Mitchell of the college electrical engineering department. While on the air this evening Higgenbottom will tell some of the building of the station.
Those in charge of the station are not ready to throw the station open for public Inspection, but it is hoped that before long the public will be able to view the station equipment.
The station is equipped to send only films, but by the start of the year the constructors hope to be able to transmit with real persons on the campus before the microphone. Now only the pictures of speaking may be transmitted at one time. Mitchell said some of the old time sets which have a higher frequency than is ordinarily broadcast may be able to hear the speaking portion of the program tomorrow night.
The pick-up and amplifying portion of the equipment was built last spring, but it was not until last summer that the permit for the construction of the station was obtained. Since early in September, the major part of the transmitter has been built.
In explaining the principle of television, the co-workers explained that each picture is taken apart in 4,500 parts, and each part is exposed on the photo cell. Each of these in turn flies on the receiver set at such a fast rate that it is not detectable to the ordinary eye. Twenty complete whole pictures per minute can be thrown upon the screen by this method. (Morning Chronicle, Manhattan, Kansas, Nov. 1)
Wednesday, November 2, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
4:45—Marlen E. Pew, talk.
8:00—Strange People, talk, Henriette Dunlap.
8:15—Correct Time.
8:16—Grace Voss, dancer.
8:30—Sketches.
8:45—Senator Nutt and his “Guffawians,” with George Haller
9:00—George Britton, songs.
9:15—Dramatic sketch, Jane Jonson and Lawrence Menkin.
9:30—Dramatic pantomimes, featuring Estelle Sydney.
9:45—Musical Pastels.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR, W3XK, W2XAP as above.
Thursday, November 3, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters8:00—“Out of the Song Shops,” Connie O’Neill.
8:15— “Character Slants,” Bob Davis.
8:30—Marion Harurck, dancer.
8:45—Sketch, John O. Hewitt and players.
9:00—Jack Sneed, guitar.
9:14—Correct time.
9:15—“Chalk Chats,” with Lou Hanlon.
9:30—Burnett Sisters, songs.
9:45—Helen Haynes, songs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W3XK, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-11:00—Film presentations.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental images.
W2XR, W2XAP as above.
Friday, November 4, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Phil and her uke.
8:15—Comic strip, George Kelting.
8:30—Robert McGeehan, cartoons.
8:45—“Spaghett and Rivioli,” Italian comedy team.
9:00—Gladys Kahn, songs.
9:15—Gosslin Sisters, songs.
9:30—David Ramsdell, baritone.
9:45—Football interview, Charles Speer.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
Another series, Friday evenings every week, 9 to 10 o'clock, will offer a variety program featuring song, drama, mystery and comedy over shortwave W1XAV and W1XAL. This program will be known as "Radio's First Little Show." (Boston Globe, Nov. 4, 1932)
W2XAP, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00—Experimental programs.
8:00-9:00—Direct pickup.
W2XR as above. W2XBS, W3XK off.
NEW YORK (AP) — Progress, described as good,” is the word that comes from the Philadelphia laboratories where Philo T. Farnsworth, young San Francisco engineer, is working on cathode ray television.
The device, similar to that of Dr. Vladimir Zworykin of Camden, N. J., demonstrated recently to radio manufacturers in New York, has as its basis an electrical means of scanning, both in the transmitter and the receiver, rather than the mechanical disk.
Farnsworth, who is working in factory laboratories, “has made further good progress in the development of cathode ray receivers and tubes,” a statement said.
“However, we do not consider that the results are good enough as yet to warrant the introduction of commercial television receivers. Furthermore, the television broadcasting which must necessarily precede the introduction of commercial television receivers has not yet arrived and apparently is a long way in point of time from being ready.
“We do not believe that either good television broadcasting programs or satisfactory television receivers will be ready for the public before the summer of 1933.”
This statement, coupled with that issued after the private demonstration to radio manufacturers conducted in New York by RCA, indicates clearly that no effort will be made this year to consider television from a manufacturing standpoint, giving the laboratory another year in which to pursue research.
“Althouqh continued progress has been made with television, this development still is in the laboratory stage,” the RCA statement said.
“Much work remains to be done inward the improvement of receiving equipment and the creation of transmission facilities for practical television broadcasting.”
However, numerous favorable comments as to the quality of the pictures reproduced were heard after the New York test, lookers being particularly pleased with the transmission of sound movies direct from a film. (C.E. Butterfield, AP, Nov. 4)
Saturday, November 5, 1932
W2XBS, NBC, New York, 143 meters. (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-9:00—Experimental programs. 9:00-10:00—Sketch.
All other stations are off.
Sunday, November 6, 1932
Eastern stations off the air.
Television set owners, of whom it is believed there are a few hundred, will catch a glimpse of the future when they see bulletins printed on the screens for the first time. That is the way America may get the election returns in the '40s. Station W2XAB will televise pictures of the candidates and the bulletins, beginning at 8 P.M. (New York Times, Nov. 6).
Monday, November 7, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:15—Piano lessons by G. Aldo Randegger.
8:30—Ukulele, Jack Peterson.
8:45—Correct time.
8:50—Wide World Revue, featuring Jack Fleming and players.
9:15—Ethel Aaron, songs.
9:30—Muriel Asche and her Kingsway Kiddies.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR (Radio Pictures), New York/Long Island City
5:00—Experimental programs. 7:00—Cartoons. 8:00—Film with sound. 9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
Tuesday, November 8, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Gene Marx, musical act.
8:15—Baby Ruth Parkin, juvenile performer, dance and song act.
8:25—Correct time.
8:30—Peggy Soennecksen, pianist.
8:45—Songs, Sylvia Sherry and Saul Meerowitz.
9:00—One man jazz band, featuring Vincent “Blue” Mondi.
9:15—Oneida Wright, accordionist
9:30—Election returns.
Television was brought into use for the first time in reporting a national election. Beginning at 8 o'clock, placards on which returns had been lettered were held before the electrical eye of television station W2XAB for the benefit of those having television receivers. Pictures of the principal candidates were also broadcast and a group of studio entertainers filled in during the intervals between important results. (New York Times, Nov. 9)
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR, New York
5:00—Experimental program.
7:00—Cartoons.
8:00—Films with sound.
9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-11:00—Experimental programs.
Four major moves, considered the most important since the development of general technical phases, have been made by television during the past week. Expected to have a direct bearing in speeding the air picture’s debut in the New York metropolitan area are:
Decision, with the determination that these points will cover the entire New York zone, to house television’s biggest studio In Radio City but to retain permanently the Empire State Tower as the city’s most powerful and effective transmitting point.
To do away with the screen in the home televisor and to substitute in its place a huge tube which will receive the picture and transmit it to a large mirror on the inside of a cabinet. This will be lifted during reception the same as the top of a victrola.
That films, at least in the early stages of commercial tele, lend themselves easiest to the ether waves. That inanimate rather than animate is not only more effective but can be used at a fraction of the cost.
Radio Corporation of America is already getting ready to produce original pictures for television broadcast in its Photophone studios on 5th ave.
No Price Quoted
RCA-Victor has perfected the mirror televisor which last Thursday night was demonstrated at a private party, composed of television leaders of both continents. No retail price has yet been set on the new televisor and none will be announced until mass marketing gets underway, it is stated.
As television, anyway in New York, could now be marketed, tele experts declare. The radio interests, according to report, do not feel the time Is ripe in that the public pocketbook will require, under present conditions, another period before it will be replenished to the point where it again can consider luxury buying.
The decision to retain the Empire tower comes after two years of experimentation.
Television leaders in New York see no need at this time for establishing film studios in the east. They point out that there are sufficient spots around New York where subjects for television broadcast can be made without the creation of others. (Variety, Nov. 8)
Wednesday, November 9, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
4:45—Marlen E. Pew, talk.
8:00—Strange People, talk, Henriette Dunlap.
8:15—Correct Time.
8:16—Grace Voss, dancer.
8:30—The Old Salt.
8:45—Senator Nutt and his “Guffawians,” with George Haller
9:00—Clarence Lang, songs.
9:15—Fashion Slants.
9:30—Dramatic pantomimes, featuring Estelle Sydney.
9:45—Musical Pastels.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR as above.
Thursday, November 10, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—“Out of the Song Shops,” Connie O’Neill.
8:15— “Character Slants,” Bob Davis.
8:30—Marion Harurck, dancer.
8:45—Sketch, John O. Hewitt and players.
9:00—Jack Sneed, guitar.
9:14—Correct time.
9:15—“Chalk Chats,” with Lou Hanlon.
9:30—Burnett Sisters, songs.
9:45—Helen Haynes, songs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental images.
W2XR as above.
Friday, November 11, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Phil and her uke.
8:15—Charlotte Wreneck, pantomimes.
8:30—Robert McGeehan, cartoons.
8:45—“Spaghett and Rivioli,” Italian comedy team.
9:00—Fsahion Show, Gladys Kahn.
9:15—Gosslin Sisters, songs.
9:30—David Ramsdell, baritone.
9:45—Football interview, Charles Speer.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XBS, W2XR off.
Saturday, November 12, 1932
W2XBS, NBC, New York, 143 meters. (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-9:00—Experimental programs. 9:00-10:00—Sketch.
W2XAB and W2XR are off.
Sunday, November 13, 1932
Eastern and Western stations off the air.
Monday, November 14, 1932
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR (Radio Pictures), New York/Long Island City
5:00—Experimental programs. 7:00—Cartoons. 8:00—Film with sound. 9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
Tuesday, November 15, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR, New York
5:00—Experimental program.
7:00—Cartoons.
8:00—Films with sound.
9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-11:00—Experimental programs.
The Don Lee television station, W6XAO, announces a new schedule of television broadcasts on three different wave lengths. The regular evening schedule of W6XAO, inaugurated last year from 6 to 7 p. m. daily except Sunday, was augmented last week with broadcasts of 49,300 kilocycles, or six meters, and on 66,750 kilocycles, or 4 1/2 meters, during the day. (Sacramento Union, Nov. 15)
Wednesday, November 16, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR as above.
Thursday, November 17, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental images.
W2XR as above.
Friday, November 18, 1932
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XBS, W2XR off.
Saturday, November 19, 1932
W2XBS, NBC, New York, 143 meters. (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-9:00—Experimental programs. 9:00-10:00—Sketch.
All other stations are off.
The Picture Gallery
K. L. CARLTON, New Brighton, Staten Island—Last evening I looked in on television stations W2XAB, W2XBS and W2XR, all in the city of New York. On W2XR one sees the swinging pendulum and other moving objects together with the words “Radio Pictures, 41 Park Row, which are run through occasionally. It was only last week that I finished my home-made receiver, consisting of six tubes, including the neon lamp. My scanner has a disk of sixty holes; the motor is the universal type with adjustable rheostat. This allows me to run the motor at almost any speed up to 1,800.
Wants Diagram.
L. SHILAN., Yonkers, N. Y.—Having become interested in television and having on hand quite a number of parts which I believe can be used in the making up of a receiver for television, I need a circuit program. Can one be purchased in which six tubes are used as follows: three-24 type screen grid tubes, a pentode and a crater neon lamp? What size resistor is needed to control the brilliancy of the neon lamp? Where is it placed in circuit?
Reply-The circuit diagram shows a six tube receiver designed for the tubes mentioned. The values of the resistors needed in the various grid and plate circuits are given, together with the value of the brilliancy control, which in this circuit is rated at 25,000 ohms. Its place in the power stage is shown in the diagram.
Wants More Program Hours.
ALLEN POLNER, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Television programs are improving, especially from W2XAB. Last week I looked in and was more than pleased with the results. Gladys Kahn and Jane Whitney come through fair, as did Aldo Randegger and his piano. It should be understood that some programs are not as interesting as others, but of course one has only to turn the dial. My complaint is that some of the stations should stay on the air longer. For instance, W2XAB and W2XBS come on at about 7 and go off at about 10 P. M. This leaves only W2XR and W1XAV to work on. Their programs are not very interesting, and after looking in on them for ten or more minutes one feels like turning the dial but there are no other stations available. Are there any reasons why the New York stations can’t stay on a little longer in the evening?
Gets Kick in Television.
G. U. OZARK, Astoria, L. I . – Television programs still come over my set and scanner in very good shape. I must say that progress is being made. Direct vision transmission from W2XAB and W2XBS come over now with more detail. Pictures from W2XR always have been picked up in my home, where I make nightly observations. This is a fair station, but I believe that they run their pictures through the machine too rapidly.
W2XAB is doing some nice work. The transmission is very good and I do not hesitate to invite people in my home when something worth while is to be seen. I am able to hold pictures from this station without any ghost effects. The sound programs have always been enjoyed by my entire family. The setup I am using gives me a good size picture about 4 by 4 inches. As many as eight persons have assembled around the machine at one time to look at the programs. What is needed now in television are better programs and more stations.
Likes Television
M. Miller, Long Island City—For the last few months I have been looking in on television subjects, especially film which is now being broadcast by a number of stations. At my residence signals are exceptionally good, W2XR comes in good but his pictures are more or less the same every week. Of course they alternate the pictures but it becomes tiresome when one sees the same pictures over and over week in and week out. W3XK in Washington comes in quite well but recently have not heard him on the air. The pictures as transmitted from this station some weeks ago were very good. Accompanying speech with my receiver has not been tried out yet. Of course fading on W3XK and W2XBS is most of the time present.
Constructs His First Set.
M. Blair, White Plains N. Y. – Wednesday night I finished my first television receiver. It comprises two stages of tuned radio frequency amplification, using -24 type tubes, a -27 as detector and two stages of audio amplification with two -45 power tubes in parallel. In tests conducted with a loudspeaker used in place of a televisor signals heard with good strength were from W2XBS, W2XAB and W2XR. (New York Sun, Nov. 19, 1932)
Sunday, November 20, 1932
Eastern stations off the air.
NEW YORK.—(AP)—The federal radio commission is “not yet convinced that television has emerged from the laboratory” nor is it “ready to matriculate into the more severe course of adult entertainment and education.”
In these words Larry A. LaFount, member of the commission, summed up the general television situation for the radio manufacturer’s convention and trade show in Chicago.
Electrical Scanning Tests
Meanwhile the commission has granted an experimental transmiss1on license to the Philadelphia laboratories in which Philo T. Farnsworth is conducting his tests with electrical scanning for both transmitter and receiver.
The station is to use the call letters W3XE, with permission to operate on 109.1, 6.9$, 6.19 and 5 meters. Power is listed as 1,500 watts.
Until this transmitter gets into operation Farnsworth, as he has in the past, is confining his efforts to laboratory setups. The laboratory also has been granted an experimental license for W3XS to use 1,500 watts on 34.68 and 17.34 meters.
Television in Flight
Out on the Pacific coast, Los Angeles In particular, where Harry R. Lubcke is conducting experiments with the cathode ray tube, some interest was aroused through the reception of television pictures in an airplane.
The receiver, about as large as the average sized console broadcast set, was whizzed through the air in a cabin plane as Lubcke and others watched the radio pictures coming from the ground 3,000 feet below.
Lubcke’s station, operated in conjunction with KHJ, is testing 80-line transmission in the vicinity of seven meters.
While this was not the first time that television had been picked up in a plane, it marked a preliminary stage in the reception of seven-meter signals on a cathode ray set and the same time demonstrated the good signals obtainable on these waves in the sky. (C.E. Butterfield, AP column, Nov. 20)
Monday, November 21, 1932
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR (Radio Pictures), New York/Long Island City
5:00—Experimental programs. 7:00—Cartoons. 8:00—Film with sound. 9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
Tuesday, November 22, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR, New York
5:00—Experimental program.
7:00—Cartoons.
8:00—Films with sound.
9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-11:00—Experimental programs.
The Columbia Broadcasting System has begun regular daily transmission of images from a new ultra low wave experimental station, according to an announcement today by William A. Schudt Jr., television program director of the company.
Licensed by the Federal Radio Commission under the call letter W2XAX the new transmitter has been installed along side of W2XAB, sight and sound 107 meter station located in the CBS Building in New York City.
For the past few weeks W2XAX has been on the air with test programs. Effective as of Nov. 15, the new station began television transmission on a frequency of 44 megacycles.
W2XAX will transmit television images every day except Saturday and Sunday from 4:00 to 4:45. E. S. T.
It is interesting to note that the recent experiments by Senator Guglielmo Marconi, during which he successfully "bent" ultra short waves, took place on frequencies close to that on which the new CBS television station is now operating. (Charles Butterfield, AP columnist)
Wednesday, November 23, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR as above.
Since the operation of the college television station, W9XAK, several people In Manhattan, have begun to build receivers which L. C. Paslay, one of the constructors of the college station, said are inexpensive to build for local reception. Many others have inquired about building such sets and plan to start soon.
The station plans to put on the air soon some motion pictures of “Ramming” Ralph Graham, Dougal Russell, and Prof. and Mrs. O. Kloeffler.
Not only have a number in this vicinity received the programs sent out by the College station, but reception has been recorded in Elmira, N. Y. Many other states have also reported good reception. The letter received from. New, York stated the college station signals had been stronger than several other television stations now transmitting.
It is understood, although not officially announced, that moving the college station from the engineering building to the serum plans [?] is considered. (Manhattan Mercury, Nov. 23)
Hiram Motherwell, editor of Stage Magazine, will speak on “Covering the News of the Theater” when he is heard in Bill Schudt’s “Going to Press” program over WABC and television station W2XAB Wednesday, Nov. 23, from 4:45 to 5 p.m. Motherwell, a recognized authority on the theater, has been editor of Stage Magazine since its inception at the Theatre Guild Magazine, official organ of the New York Theatre Guild, in 1926. He has written many articles on stagecraft and his book, “The Theatre Today,” is the official text book of many schools of the theater. Before joining the Theatre Guild Magazine, Motherwell was engaged in newspaper work for some time. (Brooklyn Eagle, Nov. 20)
Thursday, November 24, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental images.
W2XR as above.
Friday, November 25, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XBS, W2XR off.
Saturday, November 26, 1932
W2XBS, NBC, New York, 143 meters. (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-9:00—Experimental programs. 9:00-10:00—Sketch.
W2XAB, W2XR off the air
NEW YORK, Nov. 26—Television is one step further on the long and tortuous way toward a revered place in the drawing room.The Columbia Broadcasting Company demonstrated the progress for the first time here, with stage and radio stars assisting, the salient fact being that images as large as 30 inches square can be received more clearly now than ever in the past.
Use of a new source of cold light, a lamp generating a quarter of a million candle power, made the improvement possible. Insufficient light intensity in reproducing the images hitherto has been a major drawback in television. So, with the new light operating, the image of Helen Morgan's countenance zipped across the building tops from 485 Madison Avenue to the fifty-seventh floor of the Chrysler Building, and the spectators in a darkened studio saw it emerge with pleasant clarity on the 30-inch screen.
So did that of Willie Howard and Eugene Howard, Tony Canzoneri and Rosamond Pinchot, and a dozen others.
Not Recognized
The effect of enlarging the pictures, without increasing the detail, was the same as that obtained by looking at a coarse-screen newspaper reproduction through a magnifying glass.
The background was a pale gray-blue, in contrast with the ruddy background in the smaller sets used by Columbia.
Only heads were shown and these sometimes seemed shadows, sometimes were partly obliterated by horizontal streaks of light, as the picture's clarity changed.
Yet this, television connoisseurs said, was another step along the way.
Obstacles Ahead
The truth of this reveals the prodigious obstacles which television has surmounted and those still rising ahead. For experts agree that it is only by the infinite refinement of component parts of the apparatus that progress is being made. The principles have not changed since Paul Nipkow's invention of the television disk revealed them in Germany in 1884.
The mystery of how to produce a tremendous light intensity without heat, however, has been one of the main obstacles, and the Myers Electrical Research Laboratory, of New York, which developed the new cold light lamp, believes it has cleared this up. Its lamp functions at an efficiency equal to 20 times that of the best electric lluminating lamps of the incandescent type and has six to seven times the brilliancy per watt of electricity of the carbon arc light.
But radio engineers agreed that television comparable to motion pictures as they now are shown is not just around the, corner. It is coming, but the corner will not be turned, they until many more refinements of the components are made.
So, they said, the work of refinement goes on, the questions of transmission, solved largely by use of the short waves, are considered along with the questions involving different methods of scanning.
One of the surest straws in the wind is Radio City; it is installing television studios even though they are not to be put into use until some time long past the new buildings’ opening. (William Engle, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer)
[Note: columnist Ring Lardner, Jr., wrote Nov. 27 that television could not take a wide enough shot of Morgan lying on the piano, so she had to sing standing up].
Sunday, November 27, 1932
New York, Boston and Los Angeles stations off the air.
Monday, November 28, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XAX (CBS), New York, 6.9 metres (no sound)
4:00-4:45—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR (Radio Pictures), New York/Long Island City
5:00—Experimental programs. 7:00—Cartoons. 8:00—Film with sound. 9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
Tuesday, November 29, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XAX (CBS), New York, 6.9 metres (no sound)
4:00-4:45—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR, New York
5:00—Experimental program.
7:00—Cartoons.
8:00—Films with sound.
9:00—Cartoons.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-11:00—Experimental programs.
Wednesday, November 30, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00-9:30—Experimental programs.
W2XAX (CBS), New York, 6.9 metres (no sound)
4:00-4:45—Experimental programs.
W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
7:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.
W2XR as above.
MANHATTAN, Ks.—An official license for the experimental television radio station has been received here. The college station will broadcast three programs a week using football stars. The license is good only until May. (Council Grove Republican, Nov. 30)
Here are two TV columns from Billboard, one from Nov. 5 and the other three weeks later. There isn't much informative to read. Click to enlarge.
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