Yes, there was television in the eastern and central U.S. in early part of 1930, but it was pretty primitive. Photographs, silhouettes of people, half-tone film, all without sound. When someone actually appeared live on camera and talked or sang into a microphone, all you could see was their head.
Slowly, things changed. In Chicago, a new TV station owned by the Chicago Daily News/WMAQ was getting ready to go on the air that could put the whole body on the screen! And in Jersey City, a big spectacular with Broadway stars and other celebrities went on the air to mark the debut of increased live programming. We wrote about the W2XCR event in this post, but we have a little more below about it.
Below are some stories about television in March and April 1930. There was no television on the U.S. West Coast at the time, though Warner Bros. contemplated getting into the business. In Chicago, the Federation of Labor endeavoured to hang on to its TV station, though the operation was considered moribund. In Schenectady, the home of Westinghouse, Dr. Vladimir Zworykin was attempting to develop an electronic television system without mechanical spinning wheels; he later ended up at NBC.
DX stories are interesting because they give an idea of what the programming was like then. In Boston, Bob Emery’s Big Brother Club was on W1XAV. While newspaper listings for March 24 and 31st mention television in connection with the show, they don’t indicate it was simulcast on television. I suspect it was but I have no proof. However, starting April 1, 1930, the Associated Press listings for WEEI mention, though not consistently, broadcasts from the television studio. In some cases, one newspaper mentioned the show was televised, another left it out, probably for space reasons.
Brunswick-Balke-Collender in New York had a Warner Bros. connection which we mentioned in this post.
There were plenty of stories in 1930 about demonstrations of a two-way visual telephone called the “iconophone.” Newspapermen insisted on referring to it as television, but as it didn’t involve broadcasting, we’ll skip it.
We have also not reproduced a long feature article from the New York Telegram of April 9, 1930 quoting Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll about what would happen with Amos ‘n’ Andy when television comes. In case you don’t know, the two were extremely popular. They also performed in blackface. Gosden said he felt television would be a great medium within two years but “just how this will affect our broadcasting, we do not know.” Writer Douglas Gilbert pointed out the two had appeared in theatre chains across the U.S. to standing room audiences. When television supplanted radio in the living room in the 1950s, black actors were hired. The subsequent flap is not on topic for this post, but you can read about it in this post.
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930
Using tiny particles of electricity called electrons, a million of which side by side would be too few to make an inch, to create a visible picture, as though a speedy artist drew a pencil picture in a fraction of a second, is the latest step toward home te1evision, announced at the recent meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers in Rochester, N. Y. by Dr. Vladimir Zworykin of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
One obstacle to home television is the cost of the mechanical apparatus necessary to reproduce the vast number of tiny bits of picture like little bits of blacker or grayer pencil mark, out of which the finished scene is made up. Many thousands of these separate picture-bits must be sent, received and reproduced every second if the illusion of vision is to be convincing. Dr. Zworykin’s apparatus does away altogether with moving mechanical parts and makes a thin stream of electrons, speeding inside the apparatus at velocities of thousands of miles a second, act as the moving pencil with which to draw the television scene.
As this electron pencil touches any spot on the special chemical screen that spot glows for an instant with greenish light. The stronger this electron stream, the brighter is this light. Dr. Zworykin’s apparatus moves this electron pencil back and forth very rapidly over the screen, making the pencil stronger or weaker from point to point so that brighter or darker spots are created, just as an artist might draw a picture by lighter or harder pressure on the point of a moving pencil. (Boston Globe, Mar 1)
The present radio talkies were broadcast simultaneously through two radio transmitters. The programs originated in the Jenkins Television Corporation studio at Jersey City in the form of special motion picture films with synchronized disk recordings. The picture signals were sent to the television transmitter, W2XCR, on the roof of the Jenkins plant, and broadcast on 139 meters, while the sound signals were sent by direct wire to the DeForest experimental radio-phone transmitter, W2XCR, at Passaic, N. J., and broadcast on 187 meters.
The usual broadcast receiver can tune in the radio-phone signals at the lower end of the tuning dial. The television signals are intercepted by means of a short-wave receiver and radiovisor. The loud-speaker rendition and the radiovisor pictures were perfectly matched for the illusion of a living reproduction. (Birmingham News, March 2)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.—Plans for the erection of a low-wave, sound-picture broadcasting station here within the next few weeks are under way. This announcement was made today by representatives of the Kemper Radio corporation, holders of exclusive rights to the Philo Farnsworth Television receiving unit.
With the opening of the proposed station, television units, Kemper officials say, will be available for the home at a cost of less than $100.
The Farnsworth unit, declare engineers and radio experts, who witnessed a demonstration in the young San Francisco inventor’s laboratories, has passed from the experimental to the stage of reality.
NOISE ELIMINATER [sic].
All noise and hum, the principal fault heretofore in television, the inventor has successfully eliminated. This was accomplished by using a funnel-shaped receiving tube instead of the usual motor and disc mechanism.
The tube is slightly concave at the broadbase. This base, heavily frosted, forms the screen on which television subjects are projected, and in the only part of the tube disclosed in the wooden cabinet, which stands on top of the ordinary radio receiving set.
It is planned at the outset to provide receiving tubes with a round base five inches in diameter. Subsequently, tubes of larger dimension will be introduced.
At the demonstration given here recently motion pictures transmitted onto Farnsworth’s receiving unit reappeared unusually distinct and clear, despite the limited size of the tube screen.
CHAIN PLANNED
No attempt was made at the demonstration to synchronize sound and picture, but the Kemper corporation declares this feature of the project already has been proved by previous tests.
When the broadcasting station is erected here, and the television unit is placed on the market in the near future, officials say, hooking up the unit to radio receiving sets for sound-picture synchronization will be a simple matter.
The broadcasting station, which will have a sending radius of approximately 50 miles, is but one of a chain that is planned for the Pacific Coast and later will be extended across the continent. (Oakland Tribune, March 2)
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1930
W2XCR, the Jenkins television station (107 meters), and W2XCD (187 meters), of the De Forest company, co-operating with each other, are broadcasting sound pictures daily. (Ben Gross, New York Daily News, March 2)
Experimenters who seek the thrill of complete broadcast presentations, both in sound and vision, may now tune in on the two experimental transmitters, one station W2XCR of the Jenkins Television corporation, and the other station W2XCD of the DeForest company who are acting jointly in transmitting the programs. The sound signals come through on station W2XCD on about 187 meters (1604 Kc.) and the television signals will be found synchronized on station W2XCR operating on about 107 meters (2800 Kc.).
Two separate receivers are required, the special rotating disc and neon tube outfit for the pictures, and a regular short wave receiver for the audible part of the program.
The “movies” consist of halftone pictures scanned in 48 lines at a speed of 15 pictures each second. Reports indicate that the combined programs are coming in through New England, the middle west and the south quite clearly. (The Day, New London, Conn., March 8)
Winston Salem has television!That announcemnent may sound unreal to many readers The Journal and Sentinel. However, as strange as it may sound, C. W. Clodfelter, 65 South Pleasant Street, invited a Journal and Sentinel reporter to his work room studio and treated him and the friend who accompanied him to a thoroughly successful television program, although the evening was a poor one for receiving.
Mr. Clodfelter, who possibly is the first person in Winston Salem to set up and successfully operate a television receiving set, has been receiving programs successfully for sometime, but has been working to better his reception before he invited his friends to witness the marvels of this invention which, he declares, is rapidly being perfected by commercial concerns.
Mr. Clodfelter’s visitors Friday [Feb. 28] night saw portions of two programs. One program was being broadcast from Station W3XK, Washington, D. C. It offered several features. Among them was a movie of a girl playing basketball. This showed up remarkably well. In fact, at times, it was nearly as clear as a moving picture. Other pictures involved a hunting scene and an aviator doing stunts in the air.
The other program which Mr. Clodfelter intercepted included an appearance of Dr. Lee DeForest, television expert, at Station W2XER [sic], Jersey City. It was easy to be seen that Dr. DeForest was speaking. However, since Mr. Clodfelter’s receiving set did not have the sound apparatus, he was only able to impress his audience with a “silent oration.”
The mechanism which makes television possible is too complicated to be discribed [sic] in an ordinary news story, even if the writer were an authority. However, Mr. Clodfelter explained that the principle difference between the operation of ordinary radio receiving set and the operation of a television receiving set lay in the difference of wave length.
“Television is due to supplant moving pictures and talkies in a few years—possibly in two years,” declared Mr. Clodfelter. “Television is now where radio was a few years ago. At that time, the only person who could operate a radio receiving set with any degree of satisfaction was the person who had made a study of it and mastered some of the fundamentals.
“Radio receiving sets now can be operated with a minimum of difficulty by the inexperienced person. In a few years television will reach the same state of perfection.”
Mr. Clodfelter states that he had experimented extensively with his television set and that it probably cost him quite a good deal more than it would cost him to construct a receiving set at present. He estimated the cost of set such as his at $200.
Mr. Clodfelter spends much time in the study of radio, television and similar electrical apparatus as a pastime. For many years he has spent his leisure hours in the study of electrical phenomena, beginning when the primitive telephones which came into this vicinity and following up his experiments with the different inventions as they came out. He bought the material for his television set in parts and set it up himself. (Winston-Salem Journal, May 2). [Note: Charles William Clodfelter was a carpenter, then a mailman for 27 years, born in Hope, Indiana on Aug. 22, 1869, he moved to Winston-Salem when he was six. He died on June 24, 1948, age 78.
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930
When Lansingites are receiving their "movies" on a screen in the front of their radio sets and sitting around the home fireside watching a football game played in California, some individual with a historical complex is going to search through the files of this newspaper to learn the date of the first television reception in Lansing.
For his benefit, and for the information of readers today, let that date stand fixed—so far as Lansing is concerned—as Saturday, March 8, 1930.
Television pictures were satisfactorily received at Amateur Station W8ALR, operated in connection with The State Journal, Saturday night. G. G. Granger, radio editor of The State Journal, and operator of the Journal short wave station, directed best the experiment which becomes a milestone in local scientific history.
While thousands of Lansingites saw motion pictures Saturday night, but two of the number watched a picture which did not have its source in a reel of film in the projecting room of some downtown theater. The two to receive their motion picture entertainment from another source were Mr. Granger and K. C. Park, managing editor of The State Journal, who saw three reels of tiny pictures that came over the ether from the Jenkins Television Laboratories at Washington. D. C. Through the three reels of film witnessed by the local experimenters many images were seen clearly although synchronization could not be held long enough to follow the plot of the simple plays being presented.
In one of the plays four characters took part—a man, woman, child and dog—and at times three of the four were in the picture at the same picture. The best action pictures were, a man running down the street, two men boxing, which there were several knockdowns, a little girl bouncing a ball. The little girl bouncing the ball is a tuning film for the adjusting of apparatus.
On Short Waves
Reception was through an ordinarily short wave radio receptor, the output going to a neon lamp instead of loudspeaker. Before the lamp was a revolving scanner disc, synchronized perfectly to the speed of the motor operating the film at the Jenkins laboratories.
Watching the lamp, through the tiny holes in a circular spiral on the disc, motion pictures in black silhouette against the pink background furnished by the glow of the neon tube, were visible in a small square frame.
Like pioneer days in the movie theater, when pictures were occasionally off-center and split on the screen, the pictures at the State Journal station Saturday night frequently “split.” Periodically there would be a splash of static that would create a grotesque pattern on the tiny “screen.” But generally the reception was beyond expectations and clear, sharp pictures were received.
The success of the experiment can be predicted as the forerunner of a dawning era of tremendous development in radio—one of great significance to the “fan” and to newspapers. In newspaper circles, pictures as fresh as the news are going to be received by this method coincident with the “story” within the next few years.
Television, apparently, is at the “crystal set” stage of radio development. And youngsters are still in school who recall adjusting a “cat whisker” on a crystal set and enjoying the first mysteries of radio when WREO fil[l]ed Lansing’s radio needs.
Development Rapid
Transmission of pictures by wire in recent months has progressed to the point where many of the pictures appearing in the daily newspaper original from this source. Just ahead, apparently, is the transmission of these same pictures without wires.
The program of movies received for the first time by air here were broadcast at the rate of 15 pictures per second from station W3XK, the Jenkins laboratories in Washington, operating on 2,900 kilocycles. Nearly 19,000 impulses per second are required to form the picture.
This station is on a regular schedule of picture broadcast, going on the air for two hours each night except Sunday. This program starts at 8 p. m., continuing until 10.
Success of the results Saturday night spurred the experimenters on to construct a more elaborate receiver which will receive larger pictures. Lawrence Wells, W8DFB, and Leason Parmater, W8JJ, are working together on a television receiver with which they hope to project the tiny pictures onto a ground glass screen. When this receiver is complete attempts will be made to photograph the pictures. (Lansing State Journal, Mar. 10)
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1930
TELEVISION will step out of the laboratory into the home some time within the next sixty days.This is the statement of C. F. Wade, president of a television corporation in Chicago, upon the completion and proving of the last piece of special apparatus required in the manufacture of commercial “fool proof” television receivers.
“Thirty to sixty days more must elapse,” Mr. Wade stated, “before we are taking completed television receivers off the production line.”
A group of ten scientists, each an expert in some phase of the problems which have retarded the successful development of television for the home, are collectively responsible for the Western Television System. The company’s laboratory is likewise responsible for the new super-sensitive photo electric cells and neon tubes. In addition it has developed apparatus used in television broadcasting.
Work With Old Set
The news to radio fans of America is the fact that the equipment is designed to operate with existing radio equipment. By the substitution of the televisor for the loud speaker in the ordinary radio receiver, after the coils have been tapped to permit shortwave reception, the former sound receiver becomes a television receiver.
“Simultaneous sight and sound reception are so complementary,” said Mr. Wade, “that we feel the radio public will want both, and there is no necessity of choosing one to the exclusion of the other. The installation of radio sets, one for sound waves and the other for silent waves, is, of course, necessary. A cabinet to house the necessary equipment need be no larger than a medium—sized radio receiver.”
Synchronized sight and sound broadcasting has been carried on for many months over Station W9XAO, owned by Western Television, and WIBO, the Nelson Brothers-Chicago Evening American Station. (Brooklyn Eagle, March 9)
New York, March 9. (WNS)—Television will be used in science’s next effort to eliminate time and place when an attempt will be made to project from Jersey City to Chicago, a distance of 967 miles, a sound-film representing a person either talking or singing.
Plans for the experiment, that, if successful, it is believed, will usher in a new era in theatrical entertainment, are being completed by the General Theater Equipment corporation, the New York World News service learned today. The film will then be projected by television from the Jenkins laboratories in Jersey to a screen in the dining room of a Chicago hotel.
The occasion of the experiment will be a dinner of the directors of the General Theater Equipment corporation to be held April 18 in Chicago.
The films will probably be taken by a camera operating at 15 frames per second with a synchronized sound recording device. The sound picture will then be projected and picked up through an aerial on the roof of the Chicago hotel. It will then be projected by a powerful current, on a grandeur screen in the dining room.
The experiment, if successful, will be the first time in the history of radio or motion pictures that a sound film has been projected by television.
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1930
Edgar T. Bell, secretary-treasurer of the Oklahoma Publishing company, which owns the KWY broadcasting station at Oklahoma City, says that his company already has a permit to broadcast television from its station in this city as soon as the next major development in communication becomes commercially practicable. The announcement was made in connection with a review of the history of the WKY broadcasting station and of its service to and for Oklahoma City. (Oklahoma Livestock News, Mar. 10)
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1930
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Edward N. Nockels, manager of broadcasting station WCFL of the Chicago Federation of Labor, asked the Radio Commission today for the renewal of its visual broadcasting station license for W9XAA.
Gerald C. Grogs, engineer of the commission, stated that the station had not submitted any comparative data regarding experiments in television. The commission took the request under advisement. (New York Times, March 12)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930
REPORTS reach us that WMAQ listeners will soon be able to see the artists who put on the studio programs for the simultaneous broadcasting of television and sound has just been announced by William S. Hedges, WMAQ’s president. So far as is known, The Daily News will be the first newspaper to own and operate its own television station. Television equipment, now being completed by Western Television Corp., is expected to be ready within 60 days. Television will be broadcast over station 9WXAP, construction permit for which has just been granted by the Federal Radio Commission. The wavelength will be 6,040 kilocycles. (James W.H. Weir, Pittsburgh Press, Mar. 12)
The Radio Corporation of America last week took one more step forward in the matter of making television practical. Still photographs were televised from their Fifth avenue studio to a motion-picture theater miles away. The attempt was satisfactory, but does not mean that the engineers are much nearer the goal of perfected motion-picture broadcasting. This must wait for new inventions of a radical sort. (Baltimore Sun, Mar. 12)
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930
Television demonstrations under the auspices of the Radio Corporation at the New York show indicated real progress, but the engineers whose brilliant work was responsible for the improvements were careful to point out that other problems still remained to be solved before television would be practical for home sets. (Reedsburg Times-Press, Mar. 13)
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930
Edinburg, March 19.—While 25 high school boys stood spellbound before a screen in the science laboratory of the local school last night [18], Ernest Patrick, 15-year-old radio genius, gave them the thrilling opportunity of seeing what scientists have been unable to discover, a television picture.
It was the first meeting or the Radio club. Mr. Boston, Mr. Miller and Mr. Francis supervised the group of interested boys. Ernest at first experimented with a small crystal set. His reception was poor, due to weak batteries and improper aerial and ground wires. Doubt was expressed by the owner as to whether he could get the television set to operate there, as it was hooked up to the crystal radio.
Signals Seen on Screen.
Shortly after 8 o'clock the lights were put out and, the shades drawn, as Ernest started a small motor that operated the shutter. For a brief moment the light flickered dimly on the screen. Then it grew plainer and words could be deciphered. Station WRNY, New York city, was sending out its signal which could be plainly seen on the screen. The letters slowly moved downward, and the picture of a man with a banjo appeared.
For a long time this picture remained on the screen. Then it was replaced by the words "Chicago Sunday—” Slowly it disappeared, and the group saw pictures of women and men whom they recognized as well known movie stars. As the pictures moved so slowly and stayed on the screen so long it was late before young Patrick stopped the set, and the group left wondering at the mystery of television.
To Direct Radio Club.
Ernest explained that about 25 stations are sending television pictures out for experimentation by expert scientists. Although they have worked for a long time, they have never been able to get a picture more than eight inches square and then it is so dim that only the bare outline can be seen.
The boys are going to organize a radio club at once. The first requirement for membership is to buy a set of headphones. Ernest is to sponsor and direct the activities. (Columbus Ind. Evening Republican, Mar. 19)
Washington, March 18. Development of television has been so slow that the Chicago Federation of Labor is facing difficulties in getting its experimental license renewed for that purpose.
Hearing before the radio commission here developed that not one tangible result of its experiments had been submitted. Station representative stated that within a year data would be ready for submission that would “startle the world.”
Commission took it under advisement as to whether or not the license would be renewed. (Variety, March 19)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930
Creation of the first radio television theatre is now in progress by the Jenkins Television Corp., its backers, with the official opening scheduled for April 7. The theatre is being erected in Jersey City and will inaugurate the first public broadcasting of television in America and the first public broadcasting of film in the world. The film to be televised is Tiffany’s “Journey’s End.”
In embarking on the new plan the backers of the movement cognizant of the present limitations of practicable broadcasting are taking the view that television has got to come sooner or later and that it might as well be now. They liken their present status to the one-tube era in radio. Consequently long distance broadcasting will not be attempted and the program arranged for the first theatre will be all closeups.
“Theatre” is being erected at a cost of about $100,000. When completed it look like a combination radio broadcasting studio and a moving picture studio. Manner of reception, however, is still embryonic and the question of receiving sets so far as officials would divulge is limited to a special few built by Jenkins for its inaugural period. Among the Jenkins backers are Anthony J. Drexel Riddle, Jr., and James W. Garside, president of the De Forest Radio Corp. Inside info is that a budget of from $2,500,000 to $5,000,000 has been made available for the extension of the idea.
Special Reception
Television’s first theatre, which is licensed under the name of Eugene McMahill, who is in charge of the plan, will broadcast on a low wave of 37 meters. The inauguration of the broadcasting will be participated in by 10 radio stations in and around Jersey City, including WRNY, WOR and WIWL, with reception limited to 50 sets to be set up by Jenkins Company in as many selected spots. Opening of the theatre so far as Jersey City is concerned will be in the nature of a city celebration to last four days with the U. S. Government participation by official representation of Col. Lindbergh and Secretary of Labor James Davis. The celebration will comprise four hours of broadcasting each evening from 7 to 11.
Besides Lindbergh and Secretary Davis among those named to participate in the program are Mayor Hague of Jersey City; Gen. Heppenheim, Congresswoman Mary Norton, Florens Ziegfield [sic], Earl Carroll, Lily Damita, Ruth Etting, Jack Donahue and Ed Wynn. (Variety, March 19)
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930
WASHINGTON, March 22 (AP)—Transmission of movie half-tones soon will be started by C. Francis Jenkins, television experimenter, from his station near Washington. Jenkins is a former resident of Richmond, Md.
The Jenkins station has been transmitting silhouette movies, programs being given each evening except Sunday from B to 9 o’clock on the frequency of 2,900 kilocycles. Most of the lookers are amateur radio operators and others who have assembled their own picture receivers.
While reception has been reported from the Pacific coast, Florida and Canada, fans in Delaware and other comparatively nearby regions have been unable to get the pictures because of the vagaries of short wave transmission. One Delaware amateur, unable to get pictures at his home, put his set in an automobile and drove to Philadelphia, where at the University of Pennsylvania he picked up the movie program.
Mr. Jenkins says that the number of people who receive his pictures is less than last season when the station was operating on the higher frequency of 6,400 kilocycles. This channel was within tuning range of the 40 meter sets used by the amateurs.
Radio fans of Cincinnati will soon be served with synchronized sight and sound broadcasting. The announcement was made in Chicago yesterday [22] by Clem F. Wade, president of the Western Television Corporation, whose company is now building the necessary television apparatus for the Ohio eight station.
Sound station WKRC, Cincinnati, is to operate in conjunction with a new short wave station owned by the Ohio Television Corporation,” Mr. Wade said.
“The new station will use 1,000 watts of undistorted power. It will be the third in the Central States to broadcast television in conjunction with a radio station. WIBO, Chicago, and our own station, W9XAO, have been on the air together for many months are very soon the Chicago Daily News station, WMAQ, will be operating with its television station, the equipment for which we have nearly completed.” (Brooklyn Eagle, Mar. 23)
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1930
WASHINGTON, March 23 (AP)—Indications that television may make a renewed effort for consideration by the experimenter in this radio season are becoming more evident.From Chicago there are reports, based upon a statement by C. F. Wade, president of the Western Television corporation, that much progress has been made in the designing of what he describes “foolproof television for the home.” Wade is optimistic enough about the experiments to state that only “thirty to 60 days more must elapse before we are taking completed television receivers off the production line.”
The laboratory work, he explained, has included development of better photo-electric cells, neon tubes and television broadcasting apparatus as well as receiving equipment. Efforts have been made to design the television equipment to operate in conjunction with existing radio apparatus.
In connection with experiment synchronized sight and sound broadcasting has been put on the air for some time by WIBO on the broadcast channels and by W[6]XAO on short waves. Of course, with such synchronization, two receivers must be used, one for broadcast set for the sound, and the other shortwave outfit for television.
The short wave transmitter of the CBS chain, W2XE, which is operated in conjunction with the key station, WABC, seems to get there. A day time DX test was made during the broadcast of the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the Colorcraft laboratories in Long Island City. N. Y., in which amateurs co-operated in checking up to see how far the signals really did go. Reports of reception came from California, Ecuador, England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, China, India and Florida and other points. (C.E. Butterfield column)
Station WEEI, owned and operated by the Edison Electric Illumination Co., of Boston and the Short Wave and Television Laboratories, of Boston, are cooperating in what is believed to be the first regular sight and sound schedule.
Using the studios of Short Wave and Television Laboratories, with mike lines fed through regular line amplifiers and thence to transmitter of WEEI, one program each night and one on Sunday is broadcast by television and through the regular WEEI channel at the same time.
Horace [Hollis] O. Baird, in charge of engineering and development for this company, has devised a new system of scanning for the receiver which cuts down the size of the set and does away with the large disk. In Baird’s system the holes used in the scanning strip are photographed in film. This film is then placed around a hub of suitable size with an inserted neon tube mounted near the axis.
This scanning disk la mounted at right angles to those formerly used and requires a much smaller motor. By photographing the holes in the scanning strip of film, Baird says they can be made more accurate in size and spacing.
While there is not much interest in television in New England, WEEI is insistent that they will continue broadcasting in this manner. Some trouble was experienced in the first program because the radio frequency pick-up in the studio of the mike lines was being carried back to the WEEI transmitter and out on the air. This was remedied and now all that the listener of WEEI hears is the hum of the motor and the occasional sputtering of the arc light in the television studio.
Those few that have seen the pictures say they are clear and of fair quality but as yet they have not shown more than one figure in the picture and then only head and shoulders. Nothing new in the way of transmission has been developed here. (Washington Post, March 23)
A revolutionary type of photoelectric cell, necessary in the transmission of television based on a discarded theory first employed a visual broadcasting experiments, was revealed at a hearing before the radio commission in which the United Research corporation of Long Island, N. Y., a subsidiary of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., sought a construction permit to erect a station for use in testing the invention.
The application is for an experimental television channel in the connentnal [sic] short wave spectrum between 2,100 and 2,300 and one between 2,750 and 2,950 kilocycles. The transmitter would use 5,000 watts.
Dr. Ellsworth De Witt, chief engineer, and Dr. Arthur W. Carpenter, engineer In charge of television and photoelectric experiments, explained the device to the commission.
The device is the Hart selenim [sic] cell, which has formerly been discarded by other experimenters in the field of television, though it has been used in the development of talking pictures.
Dr. Carpenter said that at present it seems likely that the development of television to a practical stage will rest on the refining of apparatus and processes already defined rather than in the discovery of any startling new phenomena or methods. (Decatur Herald, March 23)
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club meeting.
It was reported yesterday [1] that the Radio Corporation of America was considering taking over the three city blocks between 5th and 6th aves. and 48th and 51st leased two years ago by John D. Rockefeller jr. as a site for a giant development surrounding a new Metropolitan opera house.
An enormous theatre of the air, with television and colorature talkies, is said to be under consideration.
Yesterday Rockefeller's right to purchase from Columbia university the exact site planned for the opera house, and subsequently discarded, expired. However, he holds leases on the three blocks with annual rentals to the university of over $3,000,000 a year. (New York Daily News, Apr. 2)
WASHINGTON, April 1 (AP).—The prediction that "baseball games will be seen and heard over the air by means of television within a year" was made today by Joseph Burch, transmission engineer of the Jenkins Radio laboratories, at a hearing before the Federal Radio commission.
Burch said that by use of the direct scanning machine, wonderful strides had been made In television within the past month.
Lieutenant E. K. Jett, engineer of the commission, testified that he did not share the optimism of Burch regarding the development of television. Reports reaching him of experiments being conducted by various engineers, he said, indicated that television is still in the laboratory stage and that television programs now on the air have little entertainment value.
Burch testified In support of the application the "Voice of Brooklyn,” for permission to erect a television station using a frequency of 2800 kilocycles and 500 watts power.
S. G. Gellard, president of the Voice of Brooklyn, Inc., and owner of broadcasting station WLTH said he desired permission to erect a television station "to broadcast live pictures and sounds from our present radio station.” Gellard said that the Brooklyn Daily Eagle was cooperating with him in his television project. The commission took the application under advisement.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Apr. 1. (AP)—Engineers attempting to make practical the transmission of sight by radio are progressing but at a carefully rate.Handicapped by the numerous obstacles in the reducing television reception to the mere turning of a knob or two, they feel, however, that the end of this year may bring them nearer their goal.
There is little doubt of their optimism, because of their continued efforts to solve a problem that at times offers many hard-shelled nuts to crack.
Television experts have experienced little trouble in putting together elaborate apparatus for tests in the laboratory, where cost was not the main factor. It is the simplification of the equipment to produce the same result where the real job comes in.
Simplification is the goal of the Jenkins television laboratories here, where they have developed a compact radiovisor, designed for use with a short wave tuner and resistance coupled amplifier for the reproduction of television impulses. It comprises a scanning disc, a unique motor, a television or neon lamp, a magnifying lens and motor controls, all mounted on an aluminum base.
This machine is intended to receive a 48-line picture, at 15 pictures per second. Other discs und motors may be used, however.
The motor has two elements, an eddy current motor which brings the scanning disc up to speed, and. a small synchronous motor to maintain the speed at 900 revolutions per minute. The disc is mounted on a ball-bearing shaft. When operated on the same AC power system as the transmitter, synchonization is automatic. Where the power systems at receiver and transmitter differ, the scanning disc must be controlled by such manual means as a rheostat in the motor power line.
The television lamp is contained in a-small housing with an aperture. It may be raised or lowered, or shifted from side to side to frame the pictures. A magnifying lens in front of the scanning disc enlarges the received picture, somewhat. (C.E. Butterfield column)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club meeting.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club meeting.
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club meeting.
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1930
A television receiver capable of reproducing transmitted images in color and incorporating what are claimed to be several new principles is now being developed by Leslie A. Gould, a Bridgeport, Conn., experimenter, it was disclosed to the Herald Tribune last week. Gould, who claims to be one of the pioneers in the development of television, has produced several different types of receivers after several years of experimentation, and now claims to be one at the first to obtain real tone color in the recording of television pictures.
Aside from the color television receiver, Gould has constructed a set which is now operating on the reception of signals from the two Jenkins television stations at Washington and Jersey City, respectively. Reception of these stations is regular, despite the distance from the transmitters.
The major departure from the conventional design in Gould’s television receiver is the use of a revolving neon tube operating in conjunction with a drum, which replaces the usual circular disk and stationary neon tube with a small square plate. The neon tube is in the shape of a helix and has two complete turns, resembling the type now employed in advertising signs. This tube is surrounded by a circular drum perforated with holes which correspond to the holes in the usual disk. Both the neon tube and drum are fastened on the hub of a motor, which revolves in synchronism with the transmitter disk.
Gould employs a small power oscillator to excite the neon tube. The method of obtaining the variations in light in order to obtain an image consists of modulating the oscillator with a tube of seven and a half watts through a heisting modulating circuit.
This causes a variation in the oscillation impulses, which in turn increase and decrease the brilliancy of the neon tube. As the signals are received, the speed of the revolving drum is synchronised with the transmitting disk, so that the holes correspond to the same part of the image as they are transmitted. The impulses are reflected through a projection camera disk, which enlarges the images and reflects them on a ground glass screen about five inches square.
One of the unusual features of the receiver is the neon tube. Each of the two spirals operates separately, that is, when the drum makes one revolution it automatically, by means of a commutator, disconnects one half of the tube and connects the other portion.
Gould’s television receiver for reception of images in color fundamentally is the same as the regular television receiver, differing in that colored neon tubes are employed instream of the usual orange colored valves. Gould revealed that engineers are now developing neon tubes which contain a white gas, and will permit reproducing images in black and white. For the color television receiver, special tubes capable of glowing red and green have been designed. These are mounted on a six-inch drum, which revolves in synchronism with a disk. Three red and green neon tubes are mounted on the drum, and are excited from an oscillator, which in turn is modulated by the received signal. As the drum and disk revolve, the colors are blended so that they give the effect of reproducing images in true color tones. (Herald Tribune, Apr. 6)
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930
W2CXR, Jersey City (pictures on 139 meters; sound on WRNY, New York, 297 meters)
7:00 to 10:00—Television Week Celebration, Lincoln Park, Jersey City.
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Big Brother’s Radio Science League, Prof. J. R. Lunt, director.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 8 (AP)—Possibilities of television are being demonstrated here this week in the actual broadcasts of light and sound.The first of six programs, in which the heads and shoulders of entertainers and speakers could be seen in special receivers as they appeared before the microphone, was presented last night [7] from what has been described as America’s introductory television theatre.
Separate transmitters are used to send out the television and the sound sections of the presentations, with individual receivers required to bring in both parts of the programs. Synchronization thus is merely a matter of operating two sets, one a short wave for the television signals, and the other a broadcast receiver for the voice and music.
Sponsored By Jersey City.
The demonstrations are under the auspices of the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce in co-operation with the Jenkins Television Corporation, whose equipment is being used. While the sound features are available on broadcast receivers most of the television receivers for the experiment are located only in Jersey City. This is due to the fact that synchronization of receiver and transmitter is difficult where electric power is different in phase from that supplying the television transmitter is used to operate the receiver.
Reception of the television signals on the first night was not all that had been hoped for by the engineers. Most of the time it was difficult to recognize the persons facing the television camera, although occasionally fair pictures were reproduced. Once brought in, the picture held steady, with not a great amount of flicker.
Shadow is Noticed.
At one of the reception points, a pronounced shadow was noticed, which engineers explained was due to the fact that the beat type of lighting system warn not employed at the transmitter. There the person to be televised was placed before the radio camera and bathed with lights coming from a source supplying 3,000 candle power.
Engineers pointed out that these experiments are practically the first to be attempted on such a large scale in America, adding that they gave an indication of what television would be able to do after some of the kinks had been ironed out.
On the first night, the sound part of the program was transmitted by WRNY, New York, 297 meters, WHOM, Jersey City, 207 meters, and W2XCD, 187 meters. Television signals went out on the Jenkins transmitter, W2XCR, 139 meters.
Included in the young women entertainers were Elsie Mae Gordon of the CBS staff and Miss Irene Ahlbergm who bears the title of Miss America. The Jersey City, City Police band supplied music.
Additional broadcasts will be made between 8 and 10 p.m. eastern time, each night this week. (C.E. Butterfield column)
Radio Pictures, of Long Island City will broaden the scope of its experimental television transmission to include sound, if its application, now before the Federal Radio Commission, for a license to operate sound transmission apparatus In the Northern blvd. studio, is successful, it was learned yesterday [7]. The organization is seeking permission to operate on a frequency of 1,070 kilocycles on a wave length of 280 meters.
The present television transmitter, which has been in operation every afternoon and evening for thirteen months, broadcasting pictures for experimental reception, has been operating on a frequency of 2,160 kilocycles, John V. L. Hogan, consulting engineer, said yesterday. If the license is granted, the two mediums will be coordinated In the daily tests, he added. (Brooklyn Times Union, April 8)
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930
W2CXR, Jersey City (pictures on 139 meters; sound on WRNY, New York, 297 meters)
7:00 to 10:00—Television Week Celebration, Lincoln Park, Jersey City.
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother’s Radio Rascals presenting episode No 6 of The Prince and the Pauper, Elizabeth Rifchin, dramatic coach.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 8 (AP)—Possibilities of television are being demonstrated here this week in the actual broadcasts of light and sound.
The first of six programs, in which the heads and shoulders of entertainers and speakers could be seen in special receivers as they appeared before the microphone, was presented last night [7] from what has been described as America’s introductory television theatre.
Separate transmitters are used to send out the television and the sound sections of the presentations, with individual receivers required to bring in both parts of the programs. Synchronization thus is merely a matter of operating two sets, one a short wave for the television signals, and the other a broadcast receiver for the voice and music.
Sponsored By Jersey City.
The demonstrations are under the auspices of the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce in co-operation with the Jenkins Television Corporation, whose equipment is being used. While the sound features are available on broadcast receivers most of the television receivers for the experiment are located only in Jersey City. This is due to the fact that synchronization of receiver and transmitter is difficult where electric power is different in phase from that supplying the television transmitter is used to operate the receiver.
Reception of the television signals on the first night was not all that had been hoped for by the engineers. Most of the time it was difficult to recognize the persons facing the television camera, although occasionally fair pictures were reproduced. Once brought in, the picture held steady, with not a great amount of flicker.
Shadow is Noticed.
At one of the reception points, a pronounced shadow was noticed, which engineers explained was due to the fact that the beat type of lighting system warn not employed at the transmitter. There the person to be televised was placed before the radio camera and bathed with lights coming from a source supplying 3,000 candlepower.
Engineers pointed out that these experiments are practically the first to be attempted on such a large scale in America, adding that they gave an indication of what television would be able to do after some of the kinks had been ironed out.
On the first night, the sound part of the program was transmitted by WRNY, New York, 297 meters, WHOM, Jersey City, 207 meters, and W2XCD, 187 meters. Television signals went out on the Jenkins transmitter, W2XCR, 139 meters.
The television was picked up on special receivers. Only the heads and shoulders of the entertainers and pictures were transmitted.
Among the prominent persons taking part last night were: Dr. Lee De Forest, radio inventor; Gen. William Heppenheimer, president of the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce; Earl Carroll, Broadway producer; James W. Garside, president of the De Forest Radio Corporation, and D. E. Replogle, chief engineer of the Jenkins corporation.
Included in the young women entertainers were Elsie Mae Gordon of the CBS staff and Miss Irene Ahlberg, who bears the title of Miss America. The Jersey City, City Police band supplied music.
The persons whose features were sent over the air stood by a microphone in front of the television camera and under a bank of lights producing 3,200 candle power. The television camera was a compact device, easily portable.
Additional broadcasts will be made between 8 and 10 p.m. eastern time, each night this week. (C.E. Butterfield column)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1930
W2CXR, Jersey City (pictures on 139 meters; sound on WRNY, New York, 297 meters)
8:00 to 10:00—Television Week Celebration, Lincoln Park, Jersey City.
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, Ruth Elder and Gen. John J. Pershing are among celebrities who are scheduled to appear in the television theatre at Jersey City tonight [9]. (Ben Gross, Daily News, Apr. 9)
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1930
W2CXR, Jersey City (pictures on 139 meters; sound on WRNY, New York, 297 meters)
8:00 to 10:00—Television Week Celebration, Lincoln Park, Jersey City.
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club, David MacAllester, boy soprano.
NEW YORK, April 11 (CP)—A Canadian artist has been chosen to play a prominent part in the most recent experiments with simultaneous broadcasting of sound and television.
Nicolo Consentino, Toronto tenor, who has made frequent appearances before the microphone here, will appear to-night at the “Television theatre” at Jersey City, N.J. He will be the first tenor whose features will be broadcast simultaneously with his voice. The attempt at the dual broadcast will be made at 8.30 to-night over station WRNY, the television broadcast being over a short wave length from station W2XER [sic].
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Big Brother’s Radio Rascals presenting episode No 7 of The Prince and the Pauper.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Big Brother’s Lighthouse and Coast Guard News Exchange.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Cy and Nancy, guest artists.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 17. (AP)—Proposed transmission of a sound motion picture from this city to Chicago, 967 miles away, has been indefinitely postponed.
It was planned to make the demonstration on April 18 under the auspices of the General Theater Equipment, Inc., and the Jenkins Television corporation but, due to technical difficulties, it was announced, more time would be required for its preparation.
It was found necessary to build a special receiver to insure results. The plan is to transmit both the sound and the picture of the film, reproducing the picture on a screen in Chicago.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club Spelling Bee, boys ands girls, ages 13 and 14.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930
Featuring the mid-western premiere of television in the first large scale presentation of synchronized sight and sound, the 1930 edition of the Northwestern University Circus has added an unusual headliner to its program for the annual campus carnival on May 2 and 3.Seventeen hours of continuous television broadcast over television station W9XAO will he received by a series of Western television sets installed in Dearborn observatory on the Evanston campus, where a hook-up of screens and amplifiers will bring to thousands of Circus fans the latest development in radio.
The Northwestern Circus, which, in twenty years since its beginning as a mere backyard charity benefit, has established itself as the “World’s Greatest Collegiate Circus” and one of the most popular anti original of annual collegiate events, is held each year for the benefit of the University Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., under the direction of a student Circus board. (Chicago Tribune, Apr. 19)
CHICAGO, April 19 (AP)—Development of television to the point where it is hoped home reproducers may be available here soon is indicated in experiments now under way.
U. S. Sanabria, young experimenter who has spent several years in an effort to Improve transmission of light, and Prof. L. P. Garner believe they have made progress which warrants a brighter outlook as to the time when television will begin to approach practicality.
Working in the laboratories of the Western Television Corporation, which operates in conjunction with WIBO, broadcast station, and W9XAO, short wave plant, they have used two wave lengths, the broadcast channel of 526 meters for voice and 146 meters for pictures, as the easiest way to synchronize sound and sight.
Wade Is Encouraged.
Their progress has led Clem Wade, president of the corporation, to express the belief that the reproducing apparatus they have designed for the home will be ready before the end of air. He said it could be attached to any broadcast receiver, which is used to pick up the voice on loud speaker. It also brings in pictures on the short wave of 146 meters and reproduces them on a screen in the front of the cabinet.
The size of the picture received, engineers said, ranged from an inch and a half square up to about eight by twelve inches.
They have copied pictures up to twenty-one inches square, but so far these have not been practicable. The screen is mounted on an adjustable extension arm, so that it can be moved back and forth in front of the lens to change the size of the received image. The reproducer has the usual scanning disk, with a spiral of holes, a motor to drive the disk, a neon glow lamp and a lens. Pictures Are Clear. Observers have reported that the pictures transmitted approach the clarity of good newspaper pictures, with little if any distortion.
The experimenters have transmitted from the studio pictures ranging from closeups to full length, including ballet dancers, quartets, an eight-piece orchestra and amateur boxers. The engineer said the width of their television band, generally considered 100 kilocycles for good detail, occupies less than half that space because of a specially designed scanner. The television "microphone" for the pickup in the studio consists of a battery of photoelectric cells, a light source and a motor driven scanning disk.
The corporation has been conducting experiments for more than a year.
Schenectady, N. Y., April 22. Every morning at Proctor (R-K-O) local theatre, General Electric engineers are experimenting with Television.
At present a screen 7 x 7 feet is being used, with a screen 12 x 12 preparing to follow.
Theatre’s stage hands observing the tests want to join the projection machine operators’s union fearing their stage services will not be required at some time in the future. They say that from what has been seen so far it won’t be long, maybe, before a 12-act program taken in New York may be televisioned to 2,000 or more theatres. (Variety, April 23)
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Big Brother’s Radio Rascals presenting episode No 8 of The Prince and the Pauper, Elizabeth Rifchin, dramatic coach.
Obsessed for years with a desire to receive moving images from the air the same as he has sound, a 16-year-old Minneapolis boy has finally succeeded in building the first practical television set in this part of the country, and for a week has been receiving nightly television broadcasts from station W3KX, Washington, D. C. The lad Is Lauren Findley, son of T. Findley, 1904 James avenue of the Findley Electric company. The elder Mr. Findley constructed and operated the first radio broadcasting station in the northwest, old station WCE. Almost since he has been old enough to turn dials, Lauren has been interested in radio and its newest offspring, television. He built a number of sets before he was successful in grasping the flickering images from the ether.
He Is Modest Chap
When interviewed this morning at West high school, where he is a junior, Lauren was very modest and reticent about his achievement.
"Dad deserves most of the credit for it," he smiled. "If it hadn't been for his help, I wouldn't have been successful. Anyway, there's lots of other fellows back east who have built sets better than mine."
When asked concerning the technical and operating angles of his work, the young man's face lighted with interest and he became more talkative. "No," he replied, in answer to the question as to whether or not television was yet practical as a pleasure device.
"If we had a local station and did not have to receive our images from such a distance, it might be possible really to enjoy the broadcasts. But at present, it is more the 'kick' of the thing than anything else."
Built Set in Spare Time
Lauren built the set in his father's shop, during his spare time, and he estimates the cost was about $200. He says Interference and static are the biggest hindrances to perfect reception, the same as radio.
Asked if he intended to go into radio and television work as an avocation, the lad admitted that he "didn't know what he was going to do for a living." Television, he says, is just a hobby with him. (Minneapolis Star, Apr. 22)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930
CHICAGO, Apr. 23 (AP)—Because more time will be required to install its television transmitter and to complete arrangements to transmit on short waves sight of some of its regular programs, WMAQ reports that it will not be on the air with television signals for a month or so.
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., has purchased a substantial stock interest in the Nakken Patents Corporation and acquired a royalty-free license to use all the patents of that corporation, according to the announcement made today by Harry M. Warner, president.
It gains by this deal rights to certain basic patents governing methods of producing sound-on-film, electric transmission of facsimile telegrams and pictures by both wire and radio and in the field of television. The deal was closed by Warner Bros. with Theodore N. Nakken, president, and Leonard Day, vice-president, of the Nakken Corporation.
The basic Nakken patent covers five fields in which the transformation of light impulses into electric current is required; the reproduction of a sound record on a photographic film, which includes sound record on film, and sound-on-film phonographic reproduction of sound; the electric transmission of facsimile telegrams by both wire and radio; the electric transmission of pictures by both wire and radio; television by wire and radio and the sorting of articles in accordance with color or light values. (Herald Tribune, Apr. 23)
Lauren Findley, 17, a junior student at West high school, who has been receiving television picture from Washington, on a set he built at his home, 1904 James avenue south, has applied for a federal license to send television. He has just completed his sending apparatus. Lauren, who became interested in television through his electrical studies in school, is believed to be the first amateur to receive television pictures in Minnesota. He is now constructing a new receiving screen with which he hopes to receive pictures from Chicago. (Minneapolis Tribune, Apr. 23)
[Note: Lauren Kidder Findlay, Sr., became an engineer at radio station KSTP and later worked as an engineer for the Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids before moving to St. Petersburg, where he was a project engineer for Electronic Communications, Inc. He was born Sept. 18, 1913 in Minneapolis and died April 22, 1999 at Treasure Island, Fla.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930
WASHINGTON, April 26.—Several applications were favorably acted upon today by the [federal radio] commission. They included...the granting of a construction permit to Jenkins Television Corporation of Jersey City for a station to operate unlimited time on a frequency of 2,800 kilocycles with 250 watts power. (Herald Tribune, Apr. 27)
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Big Brother’s Radio Science League: Prof. J. R. Lunt, director, subject, How to Take Pictures and Develop Them.
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Big Brother’s Radio Rascals presenting episode No. 9 of The Prince and the Pauper, Elizabeth Rifchin, dramatic coach.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1930
W1XAV, Boston (pictures on 137 meters/2180 kcs.; sound on WEEI, 508.2 meters/590 kcs.)
6:00 to 6:30—From Television studio: Big Brother Club—Big Brother’s Lighthouse and Coast Guard News Exchange.
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