September 1932

F.D.R. had a friendly relationship with the live radio microphone. The man who ran against him for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932 couldn’t even SAY “radio.”

And Al Smith didn’t exactly have a friendly relationship with live television camera, judging by his experience at CBS in September 1932.

His broadcast was pretty much the TV highlight in the U.S. that month. The other one was W2XAB broadcasting scores from the World Series—it wasn’t able to do a live, remote broadcast—though information is so vague it’s unclear if the score was flashed on during daytime hours when the station wasn’t on the air.

Below are the available TV schedules for the month. The New York Sun published a full one every Saturday (though the Smith talk wasn’t included) but the first half of the month isn’t on-line. I found one broadcast for the TV station in Montreal, and that’s it. And some time in August or early September, the DeForest station in New York, W2XCR, went off the air for good.

I have not included stories about “first television” appearances at state fairs and similar events that didn’t involve a TV station but were closed-circuit affairs.

Friday, September 2, 1932
VE9EC (La Presse), Montreal (Sound on CKAC, 730 kc.)
9:30-10:00—Radio-Television Broadcast.

Sunday, Sept. 4, 1932
Both Japan and China have representatives in this country studying American television systems and programs. During a recent week Thomas Oeyang, a radio engineer representing the Chinese government, and Yoshihiko Takata, director and chief engineer of the broadcasting organization of Japan, have spent several nights observing the Columbia Broadcasting System television station W2XAB.
Oeyang and Takata expressed amazement at the rapid progress which the science of visual broad casting has made in the United States and were particularly impressed by the clarity of the Columbia pictures. (Buffalo Courier)

Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1932
NEW YORK (AP)—Curtis Mitchell, co-editor of "Radio Stars,” newest of the radio broadcasting periodicals, and the former editor of “Film Fun," will speak to radio listeners during "Bill Schudt's Going to Press" over WABC and the Columbia network from 5:00 to 5:15 p.m. E.D.S.T., Wednesday, September 7. Mitchell also will be televised by station W2XAB which will be synchronized with the Columbia network for the duration of program.
Born in Montgomery City, Mo., Mr. Mitchell began his newspaper career on the Mexico, Mo., Daily Ledger and the Intelligencer. Later he spent several years in the publicity business for some of the larger manufacturing firms, just prior to taking over the editorship of “Film Fun.” He gave up this latter position to do free lance short story writing. In 1929 he traveled extensively in Africa, writing of his experiences. (C.E. Butterfield column)

Saturday, Sept. 10, 1932
NEW YORK — (AP) — Already there are evidences that the sending of sound and sight together by a single transmitter is a practical step in television development.
The recent decision of W2XAB, New York, to come back on the air after a brief recess with this latest picture-voice innovation has been followed by numerous reports of good reception. Some experimenters say they have had no difficulty in separating the sound from the sight, although both are sent on a single 100 kilocycle band.
One investigator has even been able to reproduce the picture on a large screen, obtaining sufficient brilliancy by the use of an arc-type neon lamp.
Similar To Duplex Wires
Roughly the combination transmission is similar to the carrier system used in wire telephone and telegraph work, in which a single wire circuit carries two or more conversations or code messages. In the case of W2XAB, the voice is impressed upon the carrier wave along with the picture, but the signal is not so scrambled that it cannot be separated in the receiver.
In the words of W. B. Lodge, engineer who installed the additional equipment at W2XAB, the system is best described double modulation.
The first step is to modulate a carrier of 46 kilocycles with the signal picked up by a microphone. This produces a complex wave. The television signal consists of frequencies up to 40 kilocycles.
"In the operation of the sound and picture broadcast, the television signal and the modulated 45 kilocycle carrier are combined, and both transmitted over the one station.
Voice Filtered Out
“At the receiver the set is tuned to the frequency of the transmitter. Frequencies up to 40 kilocycles are applied to the neon lamp which reproduces the picture. It is only necessary to insert a simple filter in the audio circuit, and add a second detector with a circuit tuned to 45 kilocycles to obtain the voice.
“The sound program also may be detected by a selective receiver, such as the superheterodyne, tuned to a frequency 45 kilocycles above or below the carrier of W2XAB, either 2,755 or 2,845 kilocycles." In other words, that part of the station’s band which heretofore had been lying idle has been put to work. (C.E. Butterfield column)

Sunday, Sept. 11, 1932
Television may not be profitable to the artists on the experimental shows at W2XAB, the Columbia station, and others in this country, as yet, but to a suburban general store manager in lower New Jersey it is a gold mine.
The gentleman, whose name and town must be withheld at his own request informs us that he receives W2XAB very well indeed on his receiver. So well, as a matter of fact, that he has inclosed the set in a dark room and charges 10 cents a peep to townspeople and 5 cents per head for school children! Maybe prosperity is just around the scanner. (Bill Schudt, Jr., Brooklyn Eagle column)

Monday, Sept. 12, 1932
W9XAO, Chicago (Sound on WIBO)
6:15-7:30—Vocalist and television views.

Wednesday, September 14, 1932
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 14. (AP)—Raleigh’s only television set went up in smoke tonight when fire destroyed the shop of R. W. Penny, a fireman, who assembled it. He estimated the loss at $550.

Saturday, September 17, 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.

W2XAP, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00—Experimental programs. 8:00-9:00—Direct pickup.

W3XK, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-10:00—Film presentation. 10:00-11:00—Direct pickup.

W2XAB, W2XR are off.

Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith will make his television debut when he faces the flying spot of W2XAB next Wednesday at 8 P. M. during the "Going to Press" program while it is being broadcast over WABC. The program will continue for a quarter of an hour, using the new sound channel on 107 meters.
Edwin Howard will bring vaudeville magic to television, with a program scheduled to be scanned from W2XAB on Wednesday at 8 P. M. Card tricks and the difficult needle stunt will be given their initial trial over television during this presentation.
With striped shirts and homemade mustaches Spaghett and Ravioli will introduce a new act next Friday at 8:45 P. M., when they face the flying spot.
Jack Fleming & Co., will present an all-musical revue instead of their regular dramatic presentation on next Monday at 8:50 P. M. A host of instrumentalists and soloists will take part which will be televised for twenty minutes. W2XAB this coming week heralds the first television silly series; a program called Senator McNutt and his "Guffawians." The new series which begins Wednesday at 8:45 P. M. will be under the direction of George Haller and will include a cast of three.
Other television features to be projected from W2XAB next week include Harry Fries and his musical saw, accompanied by Mortimer Miller; Lou Hanlon’s Chalk Chats; songs by the Gosslin, and Burnett Sister teams; experimental make-up tests; Phil and her Uke; Interviews with famous people conducted by Burt McElfresh; Grace Voss's Mono Plays: Vincent Blue Mondi's One-Man Jazz Band; Muriel Asche 1 and her Kingsway Kiddies in an all-juvenile show: the Television Ghost, played by Artells Dickson; comic strips drawn by Frank Fogarty; Baby Ruth Parkin; Helen Haynes in Musical Comedy Interlude; Connie O'Neill and her "Out of the Songs Shops" presentation and a host of other events. (New York Sun)

Test broadcasts still are being conducted by television station W9XG, located in Lafayette, Ind., in order to confirm the solving of many of televisions important problems.
Experimenters and others owning television receivers are invited to tune in the broadcasts and to report their findings on both ghosting snd signal strength. The images may be picked up on either a cathode ray television receiver arranged for automatic synchronization or a receiver of the scanning disk type using a 60-hole spiral disk running at 1,200 r. p. m.
Broadcasting is carried out on Tuesdays and Thursdays with three thirty to forty-five minute periods at 2 P. M., 7 P. M. and 10 P. M., central standard time. Transmission is by means of sixty lines per frame, twenty frames per second, with negative images on 2,800 kilocycles or 107.1 meters.
Engineers of the station have found that full 100 per cent modulation on somewhat reduced power is giving far better results than increasing the energy output and effecting a lesser percentage of modulation. Daily tests and experimentation, however, are permitting gradual increase in transmitted energy from the 300 watts used during the beginning of its tests, and in the very near future approximately 1,000 watts, it is hoped, will be radiated without loss of clarity due to fractional modulation. (New York Sun)

Sunday, September 18, 1932
W2XAP, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00—Experimental programs. 8:00-9:30—Direct pickup.

W3XK, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-10:00—Film presentation. 10:00-11:00—Direct pickup.

W2XAB, W2XBS, W2XR, W1XAV are off.

Monday, September 19, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
7:00—World Wide Review.
7:30—Muriel Asche and her Kingsway Kiddies Revue.
8:00—The Television Ghost, mystery story.
8:15—The Talking Dog.
8:30—Ukulele, Jack Peterson.
8:45—“Clarence,” a television comic strip drawn by Frank Fogarty

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.

W2XAP (Jenkins Television), Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00, 8:00-9:00—Direct pickup.

W3XK (Jenkins Laboratories), Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-10:00—Film presentation. 10:00-11:00—Direct pickup.

W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.

W9XAO, Chicago (Sound on WIBO)
6:15-7:30—Vocalist and television views.

Tuesday, September 20, 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—Baseball scores.
8:30—Peggy Sonnecksen, pianist.
8:45—Pantomime show, Lillian Grossman.
9:00—One man jazz band, featuring Vincent “Blue” Mondi.
9:15—Tashamira, dancer; Florence Kyte, piano accompaniest.
9:30—Boxing bouts. Blow by blow description by Dick Madeo on sound side of sight band.
9:45—Sam Brent, baritone.

W2XBS, W2XR, W1XAV, W3XK, W2XAP as above.

Wednesday, September 21, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
5:00—“Going to Press” with Bill Schudt, Jr., synchronized with WABC. Guest, Alfred E. Smith.
8:00—Television magic, Edwin Howard.
8:15—Baseball scores.
8:16—Grace Voss, dancer.
8:30—Hair fashions, Ferdinand Graf.
9:00—Gladys Kahn, crooner.
9:15—Senator Nutt and his “Guffawians,” with George Haller
9:30—Dramatic pantomimes, Estelle Sydney.
9:45—Instrumental soloists.

W2XBS, W2XR, W1XAV, W3XK, W2XAP as above.

Former Governor Alfred E. Smith had never seen a television station or any television apparatus until he spoke over W2XAB yesterday afternoon [21] on Bill Schudt's "Going to Press" hour. It was surprising to this department to learn this, because in his very own building, the Empire State, the National Broadcasting Company is at this very moment experimenting with the mysterious and potent forces of television. I wonder why the N. B. C. has never invited the distinguished landlord to have a look at its television apparatus housed way up in the 80’s of the Empire State.
Anyway Editor Smith had to go to the Columbia building in order to get his first taste of television. He liked it immensely. Dressed in a gray suit, black shoes and sporting a neat piece of adhesive tape on a boil on his left cheek, he faced the photo-electric cells and told both his visible and invisible audience that he was a journalist, the editor of the New Outlook.
"Of course," he explained, "that brings to mind the old definition of a journalist. The old-fashioned newspapermen frequently said that a journalist is a dead reporter. I am not dead by any means, and I expect the New Outlook, of which I have the honor to be editor, to be one of the liveliest publications that we have."
The former Governor was accompanied to the television studio by Mrs. Henry Belle Moscowitz, his advisor, and Frank Tichener, publisher of the New Outlook.
Particularly appropriate for Mr. Smith's broadcast was the backdrop used during his period on the air. It was a scene, showing the impressive sky line of New York with the tower of the Empire State hovering over his shoulder in the darkened studio. (Jo Ranson column, Brooklyn Eagle)

It seems that just about everybody from coast to coast except Alfred E. Smith knew that Alfred E. Smith was to make his debut over television last Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
The distinguished new editor of the New Outlook learned about it at ten minutes of 5. And was he bewildered when they led him into the dim little cubbyhole of a studio on the twenty-second floor of the Columbia Broadcasting System building and stood him before the fierce electric eye that beat upon his face through a small window.
"I never saw anything like this before." he said to a broadcasting official, and the official hastened to interrupt:
"Suppose, Governor, you let me show you a little about the works of television."
The official talked on, and then the busy editor interrupted:
"You mean that they will see me talking? Who will see me?"
Bill Schudt, Columbia's director of television broadcasting, volunteered that the latest estimate of television receiving sets in the metropolitan area was 20,000.
Showed Interest In Audience.
The former Governor, noted for finding out what he wants to know by asking about it, then asked who would hear him speak—only those 20,000? Mr. Schudt was busy explaining that the broadcast was over a coast-to-coast hookup and that anybody with an ordinary radio receiving set who so desired could hear him, if not see him, when another interruption came from a dim corner:
"One-two-three-four! Woof! One-two-three-four: Woof!"
The bewildered celebrity looked over his shoulder nervously. The presence of his able counselor, Mrs. Moscowitz, and several other close friends still packed in the tiny studio seemed to reassure him, and he began to ask more questions.
“Station W2XAB testing,” came the voice from the dark corner. It turned out later to be Paul Douglas, specially assigned to announce the Al Smith program.
For thirty minutes after the television broadcast newspaper and newsreel photographers had their old favorite Al Smith obeying commands in a big studio on another floor. In between shots the now portly Mr. Smith wandered back of the cameras, found a musician's little chair, sat down and mopped his red and perpsiring [sic] face. A little impromptu conversation explained "the Governor's" surprise that he was to be seen as well as heard. His coat had not come off since he had entered the building, and it was sticky hot that afternoon.
"What do you think of television, Governor?" a chance somebody standing near by asked him.
"I never saw anything like that before," he said. "It's quite a stunt."
"Pretty hot, ain't it, Governor?"
"Yes. They told me I was just to come up and make a radio speech. Hell! I do that in my shirt sleeves."
Disappoints His Critics.
This was a private conversation, and he did not say “rad-dio.” In his televised speech, he had not used the word at all. He had simply stated that as often as he had "faced the microphone" this was his first time as an editor. There was not much time even for rehearsing when Mr. Smith arrived ten minutes before he was to go on the air to waiting ears and eyes, much less for educating this busy statesman and now editor who never had looked into this television thing. But everybody had to rehearse: Mr. Douglas, the announcer; Mr. Schudt, the proud ringmaster of this department and especially proud to be having Al Smith talk and appear in his weekly "Going to Press" hour, and the featured speaker himself.
An outer door opened and some fussy official announced to the twilight of the little studio that “This clock out here in one second slow,” as I slipped through the door opposite and into the room where the machinery behind the electric eye buzzed and whined and groaned and made everything seem, what with the heat of the day and such crowded quarters, a miniature inferno. There wasn’t much light in that room, but a teeny spot light shone on a curl of smoke that passed through open space and up into a pipe. A technical man ducked in took a look and called the smoke "influence' or something equally unintelligible and went out.
I was all alone in that mysterious little room when Mr. Smith began to televise, and watched him eye to eye with the electric eye through the sound-proof window.
It was a profile view of the editor, and he kept his eyes downcast upon his manuscript, and to the owners of television sets who watched it must not have seemed the Al of old, with all the animation and fire of a political or any other kind of speech.
Television Has Advantages.
Getting ready for the television broadcast, he was concerned about a little patch he wore on his left chin. He did not think it would look so good. They told him to present his right profile. He asked how glasses would look and was told “not so good.”
“Too bad,” he said. “At this distance the type is small. If I had known it we could have had larger type.”
And he asked if his arms would be seen as he turned the pages of his manuscript. They assured him that the electric eye was so focused that only his face and a bit of his shoulders would be seen.
Later as the newsreel and newspaper photographers started to work on him in another studio, he again brought up the subject of the little patch on his left chin and lost a debate with an ingenious movie camera man.
"Just turn your face to the left, Governor," the man in charge of one of the batteries suggested.
"But," countered Mr. Smith, veteran as he is with these camera people, "I am supposed to be making a speech to an audience, am I not?"
That halted, all but one of them, who grinned and danced up to his subject.
"You see, Governor," he said, sort of confidentially, "we are supposed to be stealin' this picture."
"I see," said "the Governor," but his tired look indicated that he was just surrendering to that persistent gang of pests to get it over with on so hot an afternoon.
Retinue Checks on Image.
Just before the television broadcast started, "the Governor's" retinue was escorted to another part of the building, but on the same floor, where they might sit in semi-darkness and hear his voice and see his face through the excellent television receiving set that Columbia has all to itself.
Once, at the height of the broadcast I sneaked through several other doors and had a look at how Al Smith was coming over. The rosy square was faithful to the bend of his head, and he was easily recognizable. And the little ptahc that I could see from the room with all the machinery could not be seen through the receiving set.
Suddenly the picture part of this broadcast flickered and waved pink waves.
"Haywire!" somebody whispered hoarsely. Harry Spears. Columbia's chief television engineer, dashed for a door, and in a second there was Al Smith again, his lips moving and his familiar voice coming through the loudspeaker. Mr. Spears and Mr. Schudt comprise the staff of Columbia's television department. They felt particularly good about the Al Smith program, for it was not only the distinguished editor’s television debut—so surprising to him as it all turned out—but it was the first time that a television program ever was synchronized over a network. Bill Schudt’s “Going to Press” is the oldest regular program Columbia has. It got its start long before television, and even before WABC became Columbia’s key station.
Bill Schudt runs Columbia’s television, writes newspaper stuff and announces. Somebody discovered that if you can't see him or even hear him you can at least read him.
But to get back to Al Smith. He said what he had to say and walked out. The television program was to run fifteen minutes. Miss Vera Aiken, staff accompanist, played the diminutive piano in the little studio, while Paul Douglas talked to finish out the time. Mr. Douglas's smiling face was televised.
Mr. Smith meanwhile was escorted to the hallway, where his friends had been watching him talk about editing The New Outlook. He was alert when he got his first glimpse of the televised face of the announcer and realised that his own had been there these last ten minutes.
A special backdrop had been prepared for this important broadcast. It was a night skyline of Al Smith's home town. The Empire State Building was there big and inspiring. The lord of the world’s greatest structure smiled when his attention was called to it just before the broadcast began. The Empire State did not come within the focus of the electric eye, however. But neither did the Chrysler. (New York Sun, Sept. 24)

Thursday, September 22, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Harry Fries, musical saw.
8:15—“Out of the Song Shops,” Connie O’Neill.
8:30—“Tele-talkies,” Hewitt Players.
9:00—Mortimer Miller, pianist.
9:14—Baseball scores.
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.

W2XR, W2XAP, W1XAV as above.

The television transmitting station [W9XAK], which is being constructed by the department of electrical engineering of the college, is being pushed to completion, and will be ready for operation soon, it is believed. The aerial, which will extend from the water tower to the engineering building, and a few finishing touches are all that is lacking to put signals on the air. Definite operation of the station is planned for October. The government standardization monitoring station, at Grand Island, will test the college station for frequency stability at that time. (Manhattan, Ks. Mercury)

Friday, September 23, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Phil and her uke.
8:15—Comic strip, George Kelting.
8:30—Aviation interviews, Burt McElfresh.
8:45—“Spaghett and Rivioli,” Italian comedy team.
9:00—George Britton, baritone.
9:15—Make-up tests, Harry Spears.
9:30—David Ramsdell, baritone.
9:45—Gosslin Sisters, songs.

W2XR, W2XAP, W1XAV as above. W2XBS, W3XK off.

Saturday, September 24, 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.

W2XAP, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00—Experimental programs. 8:00-9:00—Direct pickup.

W3XK, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-10:00—Film presentation. 10:00-11:00—Direct pickup.

W2XAB, W2XR are off.

This week W2XAB inaugurates two new television shows. "Everybody's New York," an illustrated talk by Helen Bannard Risdon, intended to acquaint lookers-in with the interesting sights in the metropolis, begins Monday at 9:15 P.M. and on Tuesday at 8:45 P. M. "Talkie Songs" brings to the visual air Sylvia Sherry, contralto, and Saul Meriowitz, pianist, in an interesting quarter-hour talking picture.
Television's silly program, "Senator Numb," continues its subconscious antics on Wednesday at 8:45 P. M., with George Haller playing the lead role.
Tashamira, the leading exponent of the modern German dance, returns this week in a new series of television dances, and will be seen from the studios of W2XAB on Tuesday at 9:15 P. M.
Having already presented Maxie Rosenbloom, light heavyweight champion of the world, in an exhibition boxing bout, Dick Madeo, who handles the bouts for W2XAB, endeavors to have Max Schmeling and Mickey Walker on television Tuesday at 9:30 P. M.. a new hour for the boxing exhibitions.
Some time ago W2XAB inaugurated a series of programs by the Television ghost. A new series will be featured each week on Mondays at 8 P. M. The part of the ghost will be played by Artells Dickson.
Two dramatic features will be included on the coming week's bill. The Wide World Revue, which will highlight Jack Fleming and a company of fifteen players and instrumentalists, will be seen and heard Monday at 8:50 P. M., while the usual one-act play by the John Hewitt players will be broadcast Thursday at 8:30 P. M.
For those who like pretty faces W2XAB suggests its program featuring Helen Haynes, Muriel Asche, Peggy Sonnicksen, Tashamira, Estelle Sydney, Connie O'Neill, Phil and her uke, the Burnett and the Gosslin Sisters.
Other high spots on television's schedule include Marion Harwick and her dancing show, to be seen and heard on Thursdays at 8:45 P. M.; talks by Lou Hanlon, Spaghett and Ravioli, Burt McElfresh's interviews with famous people, Harry Fries and his musical saw, Prof. G. Aldo Randegger's new series of piano lessons and television's funny man, George Kelting, and his musical crayons. (New York Sun)

Sunday, September 25, 1932
W2XAP, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00—Experimental programs. 8:00-9:30—Direct pickup.

W3XK, Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-10:00—Film presentation. 10:00-11:00—Direct pickup.

W2XAB, W2XBS, W2XR, W1XAV are off.

A tap dancing act which I worked over for weeks to obtain for Columbia's television station. Finally landed the program. The night of the broadcast the dancer hired a pianist who had never been on the air before. He was very nervous. Both arrived two hours ahead of the scheduled time. Finally the hour arrived. I introduced both. Turned around and discovered that the tap dancer was ready to perform but his pianist had been struck by microphone and television fright and hopped into an elevator and ran far away from the studio!
A television fan letter I just received from Shreveport, La. The writer says he looks and listens to W2AXB, C. B. S. New York, every night and entertains hundreds of guests each evening. (Bill Schudt, Jr., column, Brooklyn Eagle)

Monday, September 26, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—The Television Ghost, mystery story.
8:15—Piano lessons by G. Aldo Randegger.
8:30—Ukulele, Jack Peterson.
8:45—Baseball scores, correct time.
8:50—Wide World Revue, featuring Jack Fleming and players.
9:15—Talk, Helen Bannard Risdon.
9:30—Muriel Asche and 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.

W2XAP (Jenkins Television), Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
5:00-6:00, 8:00-9:00—Direct pickup.

W3XK (Jenkins Laboratories), Washington, 147 meters (Sound on W3XJ, 193 meters)
9:00-10:00—Film presentation. 10:00-11:00—Direct pickup.

W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-10:00—Experimental programs.

Tuesday, September 27, 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—Baseball scores.
8:30—Peggy Sonnecksen, pianist.
8:45—Songs, Sylvia Sherry and Saul Meerowitz.
9:00—One man jazz band, featuring Vincent “Blue” Mondi.
9:15—Tashamira, dancer; Florence Kyte, piano accompaniest.
9:30—Three-round boxing bout. Blow by blow description by Dick Madeo on sound side of sight band.
9:45—Sam Brent, baritone.

W2XBS (NBC), New York (No sound)
2:00-5:00—Experimental programs.

W1XAV, Boston, 179 meters (Sound on W1XAU, 193 meters)
8:00-11:00—Experimental programs.

W2XR, W3XK, W2XAP as above.

Wednesday, September 28, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
5:00—“Going to Press” with Bill Schudt, Jr., synchronized with WABC.
8:00—Television magic, Edwin Howard.
8:15—Baseball scores.
8:16—Grace Voss, dancer.
8:30—Hair fashions, Ferdinand Graf.
8:45—Senator Nutt and his “Guffawians,” with George Haller
9:00—George Britton, songs.
9:15—Beauty talk, Dr. J. Howard Crum.
9:30—Dramatic pantomimes, 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.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Both the Columbia Broadcasting system and the National Broadcasting company will go on the air with radio account of the world's series games which will be played in New York and Chicago, the first broadcasts being of today's game In the Yankee stadium.
Paul W. White of the Columbia Broadcasting system announced yesterday [27] that Columbia and arranged for a hook-up involving more than 75 stations extending from coast to coast. Ted Husing will describe the opening ceremonies and give a final dally analysts for WABC. The play-by-play description will be given by Pat Flanagan and Bob Elson.
Today's bro[a]dcast over this system will begin at 1 o'clock. Television station W2XAB will put on scores inning by inning....
The Columbia Broadcasting system will be on the air again tomorrow at 1.15, Saturday at 2 o'clock and Sunday and Monday at 2.15. (Asbury Park Press)

Thursday, September 29, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Harry Fries, musical saw.
8:15—“Out of the Song Shops,” Connie O’Neill.
8:30—“Tele-talkies,” Hewitt Players.
8:45—Marion Harwick, dancer.
9:00—Mortimer Miller, pianist.
9:14—Baseball scores.
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.

W2XR, W2XAP, W1XAV as above.

Friday, September 30, 1932
W2XAB (CBS), New York, 107 meters
8:00—Phil and her uke.
8:15—Comic strip, George Kelting.
8:30—Aviation interviews, Burt McElfresh.
8:45—“Spaghett and Rivioli,” Italian comedy team.
9:00—Gladys Kahn, songs.
9:15—Make-up tests, Harry Spears.
9:30—David Ramsdell, baritone.
9:45—Gosslin Sisters, songs.

W2XR, W2XAP, W1XAV as above. W2XBS, W3XK off.

Below are Billboard's television columns for Sept. 3, 10, 17 and 24. Click to enlarge