November-December 1930
Once upon a time, there were two related companies—the Jenkins Television Corporation and the De Forest Radio Company. Jenkins had a TV station at Jersey City called W2XCR. It broadcast pictures. The sound came from De Forest’s W2XCD in Passaic, New Jersey. Then the idea hit them—why couldn’t De Forest have a TV station, too? And why not move the Jersey City station across the Hudson River to Manhattan?
That’s what they set out to do. By November 1930, W2XCD began airing pictures. Nothing elaborate, or even what anyone could consider entertainment. But it was on the air.
Around this time, two stations were broadcasting regularly from Chicago, one from Washington, D.C. and another from Long Island City.
Let’s look at television stories and schedules from the last two months of 1930. Unfortunately, not all editions of the
New York Sun are on-line; it published schedules every Saturday. The Washington papers ignored the Washington station, which broadcast the same silhouettes and pictures over and over, and the Associated Press rundown of the two Chicago stations doesn’t appear to be complete (the
Daily News provided schedules but its access is restricted on-line).
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 7:30, Studio (sound); 8:00, Television by Cartoons; 8:30 to 9 p.m, Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7:00, Novelty; 9:30 to 10, Novelty.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Radiovision; direct vision features; radio talkies.
9:00—Radio movies.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
3 to 5:30; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
In addition to the regular broadcasting station, W2XCD, of the De Forest Radio Corporation, Passaic will soon have a five-kilowatt radio television transmitting station to be run by the same concern, it was announced today. The Federal Radio Commission has granted the necessary construction permit.
The call letters will be W2XCD, the same as those of the present transmitter.
To Broadcast Soon
The television station is now being erected and will be in operation within a few weeks, the officials of the concern said today. It will operate separately from the Jenkins television transmitter, W2XCR, at Jersey City, which is indirectly controlled by the De Forest Company.
For a while, until television receiving sets become more popular and perfected, only television enthusiasts will receive images from the new station. The company, however, expects to create much interest in the new broadcasting during the next year. Recently, it broadcast jointly with the Jenkins Company, music and moving pictures and both the image and voice a man making an address.
At first, the standard forty-eight-line pictures will be transmitted by W2XCD, but of the highest possible quality, due to numerous refinements in the pickup, amplifier and transmitting equipment. As the instance of the refinement attained in forty-eight-line work, the DeForest engineers are using an amplifier with a gain of 3,000,000, from 15,000 to 60,000 cycles, with practically no drop.
Have Remarkable Detail
In fact, the gain rises slightly at the higher frequencies, followed by a short drop at 70,000 cycles. This amplifier, it was said, accounts for remarkable detail in the forty-eight-line pictures demonstrated by the DeForest engineers.
However, when the practical limits of forty-eight-line picture have been attained, the engineers plan to go on the air with more lines, probably seventy-two-line pictures, in furthering the radiovision art. (Daily News, Passaic, Nov. 3)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Radiovision; election returns via direct vision; direct vision program.
9:00—Direct vision program; radio movies.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 12:45 to 2; 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45; 2:30 to 3; 3 to 5:30; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (AP)—Television station W9XAP put on the air tonight what it believed was the first televised progress of a political election.
Images of charts showing the progress of the senatorial race were televised from W9XAP, operated by the Daily News.
Just 10 years ago today the first returns of an important election—the selection of Warren Harding as President—were broadcast from KDKA Pittsburgh.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Synchronized direct vision; radiovision of famous artists.
9:00—Radio movies.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 7:30, Studio (sound); 8:00, Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9:00, Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 3 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7 p.m., Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Novelty.
Test radiovision programs are being transmitted nightly except Saturdays and Sundays, from 8 to 10 p. m. by Station W2XCD of the DeForest Radio Company at Passaic, N. J. The signals, transmitted on 2065 kilocycles are of the standard 48 line, 15 pictures per second category. The present transmitting power is sufficient to cover the New York metropolitan district. With contemplated increases in transmitting power, the signals will soon be available over a considerable part of the country. The programs consist of half-tone and silhouette movies for the present. The pictures contain exceptional detail if intercepted with a suitable receiver and reproduced with an accurate radiovisor, due to refinements and improvements in the pick-up apparatus and the transmitter. Reports from "lookers-in," stating now the signals are being received, will be appreciated. (Morning Call, Paterson, N.J., Nov. 5)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Radiovision features; direct vision features; radio talkies.
9:00—Radio movies.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 149 meters
11 to 11:15 a.m.; 11:45 to 12 noon; 4:30 to 5; 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 3:05 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Direct vision program; Television Club; direct vision features
9:00—Vision Hour.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
7 to 9 a.m.; 9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 1:30 to 2; 3 to 5:30; 6 to 6:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1930
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 7:30, Studio (sound); 8:00, Television by Cartoons; 8:30 to 9 p.m, Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7:00, Novelty; 9:30 to 10, Novelty.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Synchronized vinion; Television Troubadours.
9:00 Radio movies and vision hour.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
3 to 5:30; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Synchronized program: direct vision features; radio talkies.
9:00—Radio movies.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 6:30, Variety (sound); 7:00, Novelty; 8:00, Studio; 7:30, Tele-Cartoons.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7:00, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Variety.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Edward McBride, songs; radio talkies.
9:00—Direct vision subjects and movies.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago
8:45 to 9 a.m.; 2 to 2:15 p.m.; 4:30 to 5; 8 to 8:25 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 4 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Synchronized vision; radiovision features.
9.00—Radio movies and direct vision.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 149 meters
11 to 11:15 a.m.; 11:45 to 12 noon; 4:30 to 5; 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 3:05 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters; sound, 187 meters in W2XCD)
8:00—Synchronized radiovision; vision features: Television Club.
9:00—Radiovision novelties.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
7 to 9 a.m.; 9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 1:30 to 2; 3 to 5:30; 6 to 6:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
11:33 to 12 noon; 12 noon to 12:45; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1930
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 7:30, Studio (sound); 8:00, Cartoons by Television; 8:30, Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7:00, Novelty; 9:30 to 10, Novelty.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1930
JERSEY CITY, N.J., (AP)—The wavelength of the Jenkins television station, W2XCR, has been changed to 2,800 kilocycles, or 107 meters from 2,150 kilocycles, 139 meters. (Sacramento Bee, Nov. 15)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
11:33 to 12 noon, 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago
2 to 2:15, Studio artists and television program (with sound); 4:30 to 5, Artists in studio program (with sound); 8 to 8:15 p.m., Studio and television program (with sound).
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago
12:15 to 1; 3:05 to 3:30; 4 to 4:30, 6 to 7 p.m.
Television May Tell of Elections
CHICAGO, Nov. 18 (AP)—When television comes an election bulletin board by the living room easy chair apparently is to be ours for the tuning in.
Instead of listening closely for the words of an announcer giving facts and figures of the vote on election night, the radio family is going to be able to see for itself just what the results were in numerical symbols reproduced by a sight receiver.
Of course, this peep into the future does not carry with it a forecast as to when the bulletin board by radio will be an actuality, but an indication of its nearness has been given to fans in this territory.
It was a demonstration, too, of just one of the things that television has in store.
What has been described as the first broadcast of election returns by sight was put on by W9XAP, the experimental short wave television station of WMAQ, owned by the Chicago Daily News. It also came 10 years [Nov. 2, 1930] to the day after the first sound broadcasting of an election by KDKA, Pittsburgh.
To give the radio audience a look at the returns without stirring from the television receiver, a large placard or screen was set up in WMAQ’s television studio. Up on it were marked the names of the candidates in large letters. Beside each name a black mark was placed, the length of this line indicating who was ahead and proportionately how far.
Figures were not given, as it was felt that the system used would provide a clearer picture of just how the vote was being distributed. In addition to the Illinois senatorial race results, some of the Cook county contests also were depicted.
Just like any other television set up, a scanning beam from a television camera was thrown upon the screen, which reflected the light to a large photoelectric cell. This cell changed the light rats into electric current for broadcasting.
Numerous reports received by W9XAP on the reception indicated that “lookers” at various receiving posts had little difficulty in determining how the vote was going.
Experimental television for Central California fans may be expected within a few months as the result of plans made by Whiteford & Ausman, San Francisco radio engineers who have obtained permission from the Federal Commission to construct a short wave station here.
This means little to the general listening public, which has no means of tuning in, but it will interest the amateurs and it indicates a. bit of local progress along the line of television operation.
Using the call W6XAD, which Major Mott of Catalina Island made prominent in the short wave field through his experimental work about ten years ago, the station will operate on 2,598, 3,256, 4,795 and 8,650 kilocycles.
Whiteford & Ausman are the designers and builders of KFQU. They expect to begin television broadcasting about three months after the opening of their new station. (Thomas Nunan, San Francisco Examiner, Nov. 18)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago
8:45 to 9 a.m.; 2 to 2:15 p.m.; 4:30 to 5; 8 to 8:25 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 4 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 149 meters
11 to 11:15 a.m.; 11:45 to 12 noon; 4:30 to 5; 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 3:05 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 6 p.m., Studio (sound); 7 to 7:30, Variety; 7:30, Studio (sound); 7:45, Tele-Cartoons.< br>
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30 p.m., Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7:00, Novelty; 9:30 to 10, Novelty.
The Passaic Executive Club witnessed a demonstration of television at its meeting in the Y. M. C. A. last night [20]. The programs were sent to the meeting from the Passaic and Jersey City stations of the De Forest Radio Corporation, and reception was good.
Dr. De Forest Speaks
Member at the club, foremen and executive of the industries of this city and vicinity, saw and heard persons talking and singing. One of the principals was Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the radio tube.
The receiving act was a commercial Televisor, manufactured by the company through the Jenkins Television Company, a subsidiary of the De Forest concern. The set is not expensive and company officials said that more than 1,000 had been sold to home owners. The sound part of the program was received on a regulation home set.
The program, last night, was the inauguration of a regular series of broadcastings to be put on by both stations. The speakers said that the science of television was past the elementary experimental stage.
To See Football Game
In a short talk, A. B. Dumont, vice-president and chief engineer of the De Forest company, told the Executive Club that the day was not far off when persons in their homes would not only hear musical comedies and football games, but would see them in every detail, as well.
He traced the invention of television, but said that it could not be perfected until Dr. De Forest perfected his radio tube for amplification. There were numerous other problems to solve, he said, before the reception would become perfected.
The Passaic station of the concern, W2XCD, he said, is now in operation and will send out programs of sound and television, but still remain a purely experimental station. The Jersey City station, W2XCR, will be transferred to New York City and will send out regular programs under the direction of a noted program director.
Mr. Dumont said that the entire Jersey City plant of the Jenkins company would soon be transferred to the Passaic factory, and that all sets would be manufactured here. At present the Passaic plant is making only De Forest tubes.
He said that the sets were not complicated, their duty being to merely transform electric impulse Into light. He predicted that in the immediate future, television is going to experience a boom similar to that radio enjoyed. (Daily News, Passaic, Nov. 21)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1930
W9XAO-WIBO, Chicago, 2000 kcs.
[AP] 7:30, Studio (sound); 8:00, Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9 p.m., Variety.
W9XAP-WMAQ, Chicago, 2800 kcs.
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45, Novelty (15 mins), 9:30 to 10 p.m., Novelty.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22 (U.P.)—Television broadcasting has progressed in Chicago to the point where sight and sound programs are being given daily by two stations here, with a third station engaging in preliminary experimental work.
The regular programs are going out from the Daily News station WMAQ, and its short wave transmitter W9XAP, and WIBO and short wave station W9XAO.
Since WMAQ made its television debut as a pioneer in the local field last August 27, 600 receiving sets have been distributed in and around Chicago. Many of the sets are in the hands of dealers for demonstration purposes and are attracting thousands of persons interested in co-ordinated reception of visible radio programs.
"We are now trying out various types of programs in order to ascertain what the public likes best," K. A. Hathaway, technical advisor of WMAQ said. "Some of the programs combine both and sound while others are silent."
Reception is confined to an area around Chicago limited by the extent of power lines carrying the same alternating current which governs synchronization of sets with transmitting apparatus, making possible simultaneous sending and receiving.
Various improvements in transmitting equipment been made in the past few months, according to Hathaway, and the pictures presented to the television audience is superior to a newspaper half tone, he said.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22—(I. N. S.)— As the aftermath of a television broadcast here which included a boxing match, the company sponsoring the experiment has been confronted by a unique legal problem.
On the day following the broadcast, the company’s president received a telegram from William S. Edgeman, assistant city solicitor of Cincinnati, O., inquiring whether transmission of the boxing picture meant that in the future prize fights could be televised pictorially from state to state.
A federal statute prohibits the interstate transportation of motion pictures of prize fights. The broadcast unquestionably crossed several state lines in addition to Ohio.
The broadcast was first real bid for consideration as an entertainment feature in the Midwest. It marked the formal opening of television W9XAP and the beginning of regular television broadcasts from that station. Newspapermen, sponsors, and city officials watching the program on specially installed television sets throughout the reception area reported reception good.
BOSTON, Nov. 22.—(AP.)—Radio listeners equipped with television receivers will be able, commencing Monday [24], to see and hear entertainers in designated programs broadcast from radio station WNAC, through cooperation with television station W1XAV.
John Shepard, 3rd, president of the Shepard Broadcasting Service, which controls WNAC and other stations, announced today that arrangements had just been concluded for simultaneous sound and television broadcasts during two hours each day.
WNAC is in the regular broadcast band sending out its programs on a wave length of 244 meters, while W1XAV sends its television broadcasts out on a 141 meter wave. Shepard's announcement set forth that the television station, the only one of its kind in New England, transmits images that are received easily over a range of 500 miles. The power used is 500 watts. Verification letters have been received from points as far distant as Nova Scotia and Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The first joint programs are to go on the air at noon and 3:30 p. m. From time to time the announcement added, it is expected that additional WNAC programs will be presented from the television station where the main studio has been doubled in anticipation of the new service.
EDITOR RADIO WORLD:
AT my location, half a block from street cars, television reception is fair to good. My two main stations are W3XK, at Washington, on 102 meters, and W2XCR, Jersey City, N. J., on 107 meters. W2XR, Radio Pictures, New York, on around 140 meters, is too weak to use. These three stations use 48 lines per picture, 15 pictures per second, but with slightly different heighth to width ratios. The RCA station, as, I believe, New York, on around 145 meters, and another recent so far unidentified station on 106 meters, using different line characteristics, come through with sufficient strength to resolve their pictures, but at present I have not made other discs to enable me to see them. Other stations are heard occasionally, but generally weak.
My present receiver consists of two screen grid RF, screen grid plate circuit linear detector, resistance coupled to screen grid audio, resistance coupled to 245 tube, with neon lamp in series with plate. All filaments are AC fed, and plate voltage of two audio tubes is taken from power unit. Whole set specially constructed for this work. Television consists of 1/12 H.P. universal motor, home made 17 -inch diameter aluminum 48 1/48 -inch holes, disc one to one ratio. Aerial 65 feet long, average height above ground 35 feet.
Following is a summary of results I am obtaining: W3XK, Washington, 102 meters, silhouettes only, generally very strong. Most nights bad and fairly rapid fading. Local harmonic interference makes this station unusable for half of their program three or more nights a week. When clear, pictures are generally fair to good, figures and movements clear for periods only, although fairly understandable most of the time. Occasionally a complete film can be followed with ease. Writing is generally readable. Some nights double images and "part frame" phase changing is bad.
W2XCR, Jersey City, N. J., 107 meters, half tones. Generally strong. Some nights very strong, usually rapid fading. Until a month ago was very clear of interference. Lately badly jammed by harmonics and other television stations. However, results on the whole are surprisingly good. The half -tones for quite long periods, five minutes or more, are quite recognizable, and at times as good as a photograph. Accompanying speech has not been tried yet. Interference, so long as it is not periodic, such as heterodyne or violet ray, etc., or too continuous, has less effect than one would expect. Pictures can be resolved from the signal when the speech is drowned out by noise.
I have endeavored here to give you a true account of my results to date, and they may border slightly on the conservative side. With possibly a closer station, or more power from the present ones, results should be tremendously improved.
ROLAND PRICE (VE3DE),
299 Waverly Road, Toronto, Canada. (Radio World, Nov. 22)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
11:33 to 12 noon, 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
2 to 2:15, Studio artists and television program (with sound); 4:30 to 5, Artists in studio program (with sound); 8 to 8:15 p.m., Studio and television program (with sound).
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
12:15 to 1; 3:05 to 3:30; 4 to 4:30, 6 to 7 p.m.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—(CPA)— Television will venture into radio's no man's land to learn whether those ultra high frequencies are adapted for the transmission through space of moving pictures.
With the five short wave channels set aside for experimental visual broadcasting already congested by the operations of a score of visual broadcasting stations, it is a virtual certainty that the federal radio commission will permit such experimentation beyond the 23,000 kilocycle radio outpost. The commission now has before it the recommendation of Elmer W. Pratt, one of its examiners that station WTMJ, at Milwaukee, be permitted to explore the ultra high frequencies for television.
A channel a thousand kilocycles wide, or 100 times the width covered by the broadcast channel, is asked by the Milwaukee station for its visual broadcasting experiments. It wants to design the transmitter and receiving set for use in these experiments since none are available now.
WOULD GRANT IT
In a report to the commission, Mr. Pratt recommended the granting of the WTMJ application. The channel 43,000 to 44,000 kilocycles is sought with 500 watts power. With this tremendous sweep of ethereal space, beyond the reach of other experimenters, it is hoped that full size images will be transmitted, as contrasted to the rather skimpy characters now sent out on the experimental channels of but 100 kilocycles in width.
Now television experimentation is permitted on five channels in the continental short wave spectrum, ranging from 1,600 to 6,000 kilocycles. One of these channels is shared with Canada. The commission has called a conference of all licensed television experimenters for Dec. 3, at which the status of television will be appraised and the various problems of the visual art considered. At that conference the question of utilization of the ultra high frequencies for experimentation of this character will be discussed.
John V. L. Hogan, eminent consulting engineer, has been engaged to supervise the WTMJ television experiments. He told the commission it would be very desirable to determine how useful the very high frequencies will be for television at the earliest possible date. His reasons were that on the basis of present indications bands considerably wider than 100 kilocycles will be needed for satisfactory picture definition, that these bands are only available in the ultra high frequencies and that the information will be of great value in the development of television apparatus.
An elaborate plan for the experiments has been worked out by station WTMJ. Owned by the Milwaukee Journal, the station has 300 correspondents and 80 branch managers scattered throughout Wisconsin, and this organization would be available for making observations of the television experiments. The physical cost of the television transmitter which would be employed is $15,000, not including the cost of research and investigation. (Robert Mack, Consolidated Press, Nov. 25)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
8:45 to 9 a.m., 2 to 2:15 p.m.
[AP] 7:30 p.m., Studio (sound); 8:00, Cartoons by Television; 8:30, Variety (30 mins).
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
12:15 to 1.
[AP] 6:30 p.m., Sports (Sound); 6:45 to 7, 9 to 9:30, Novelty.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters, 2000 kcs.
[AP] 7:00 p.m., Studio (sound); 7:45, Cartoons by Television; 8:00 to 8;30, Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30 to 6:45 p.m., Sports (Sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Variety.
Washington, Nov. 27 (AP)—Progress in development of "movies of the air" will be discussed by television experts and engineers of the federal radio commission at a conference here December 3.
Proposed allotment of channels for synchronization of visual and sound broadcasting will be considered. Commission engineers, however, are opposed to giving television a place in the program broadcast band.
To Consider New Channels.
Visual broadcasting, they contend, is not of sufficient entertainment value to compensate for the sacrifice of sound channels or the interference that might develop.
Primary consideration will be given to devising methods of reducing interference on television channels. The conference also will consider the selection of a group of channels outside the broadcast band for synchronized sound and movie transmission.
"No Man's Land” by Air.
Another proposal to be discussed is the removal of the experimental restrictions on television. The commission now issues only experimental licenses for visual broadcasting.
The engineers will discuss the feasibility of using the very high frequencies above 30,000 kilocycles for visual broadcasting and synchronized sound. This region in the ether is known as the "no man's land" of radio where the danger of interference with other services is remote.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
7 to 9 a.m.; 9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30; 12 noon to 12:30 p.m.; 1:30 to 2; 3 to 5:30; 6 to 6:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
11:33 to 12 noon; 12 noon to 12:33; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
The November D. A. R. program was broadcast Nov. 28 by WNAC [W1XAV] from the short wave and television laboratory. Dr. Claude M. Fess of Andover, author of a just published biography of Daniel Webster, gave 15 minute resume of life of Webster. This marked an innovation, since it was the first D. A. R. program sent out over radio in Massachusetts, where each one—speaker, soloist and announcer and the state chairman—could be seen as well as heard in a thousand places throughout New England. (Orlando Evening Star, Dec. 14)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:35 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 7:30, Studio (sound); 8:00, Television by Cartoons; 8:30 to 9 p.m, Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7:00, Novelty; 9:30 to 10, Novelty.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (AP)—Before New York City, broadcasting metropolis of the United States, can attain equal eminence as a television center it may have to do something about its skyscrapers.
The towers of steel are causing engineers a lot of worry. They do things to television signals.
And since the city is unlikely to give up any iron ribs for the cause of television it is up to the engineers to find their own solution. The problem is only one more on the long list of puzzlers confronting experimenters in radio sight.
Engineers of the National Broadcasting Company are conducting television experiments in the company's Times Square studio. Short waves are the medium of transmission and C. W. Horn, general engineer, disclosed Saturday [29] that signals bounce around the steel buildings so many times that many copies of the same picture often are picked up, giving a shadowlike effect.
"The massive steel structures of New York present an unusual problem in transmission," he said, "particularly over short wave channels such as are utilized in television experiments.
“The shorter the wave length the more the waves take on the properties of light waves, in that they are easily absorbed, reflected and refracted. Consequently they literally bounce around among the steel buildings.
"The experiments have shown the reception of three, four and more distinct signals coming into receivers from different directions.
"The actions of these waves, bouncing to and fro, sometimes create definite shadows behind buildings in which little or no energy can be detected. This effect is not very noticeable, if at all, in the broadcast band, however.”
The television experiments have involved much work, costly apparatus and painstaking methods.
The transmission tests are being carried on in conjunction with other television development work in the RCA-Victor laboratories at Camden, N.J.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
7 to 7:15 p.m.—From Television Laboratories—Flufferettes.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
10 to 10:30; 11:33 to 12 noon, 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1 (AP)—Elmer W. Pratt, examiner for the radio commission, recommended to the commission today that the application of the Atlantic Broadcasting company for an experimental television station in New York be denied of the grounds it was a mere duplication of experiments being conducted by other companies.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 p.m., Studio artists and television program; 4:30, studio artists in television program; 8:15, studio and television program.
[AP] 6:30, Variety (sound); 7, Novelty; 8, Studio; 8:30 p.m., Tele-Cartoons.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30 p.m., Variety.
The first magician to have his tricks broadcast by television, Ben Goldenberger, 127 N. Hamilton st., appeared over WIBO, Chicago, and its associated television station, W9XAO, Tuesday [2].
Using the stage name of Bennie Berger, Mr. Goldenberger is playing in and near Chicago this winter. His featured trick is a reverse packet catch. (Capital Times, Madison, Wis., Dec. 4)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
8:45 to 9 a.m.; 2 to 2:15 p.m.; 4:30 to 5; 8 to 8:25 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 4 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A conference of leading radio engineers and members of the Federal Radio Commission, held today at the commission’s offices to take steps to eliminate interference caused by simultaneous operation of two or mora television stations, adapted the general principle that “no assignment for simultaneous operation shall take place within 150 miles of an experimental visual broadcast station and within the same 100 kilocycle band.” Considerable interference now prevails among stations in New York and at other points, it was brought out.
Among those attending the meeting, over which C. B. Jolliffe, commission chief engineer, presided, were Dr. F. W. Alexanderson, of the General Electric company, inventor of the Alexanderson alternator; Dr. Frank Conrad, noted radio engineer and pioneer broadcaster; C. W. Horn, general engineer of the National Broadcasting Company; Walter E. Evans, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company; C. B. Cook, of the United Research Laboratories, and Loyd Briggs, Radio Corporation of America.
The conference went on record as opposed to any limitation of power for visual broadcasting. High power, according to Dr. Conrad, was essential to obtain good results. The conference will recommend to the commission that the bands between 1,600 and 1,700 kilocycles, now used by aviation, shall be reserved for television. And that the band between 2,750-and 2,850, now assigned to television, be allotted to aviation. This exchange of frequencies, it was understood, was suggested by aviation interests. (Herald Tribune)
Plans for the erection of an experimental station for the development of television broadcasting along new lines were explained yesterday [3] to the Federal Radio Commission in an application for a license by Philo T. Farnsworth, young San Francisco inventor. Preliminary statements indicated the station will be erected near New York.
At a television conference in Washington yesterday, Dr. Frank Conrad, of the Westingohuse company, declared:
"We have a long way to go In developing television. It would be unwise for us to put out any system now, as it would not stay put.”
Farnsworth and his associates in the Television Laboratories, Inc, of California, explained to the conference the visual broadcasting system he has devised. They assert it is a device which would attach to the present radio receiving sets and would not replace them in any way.
Albert B. Mann, engineer for the interests financing Farnsworth, declared here yesterday that Farnsworth's television device would operate over present standard long wave frequencies.
The visual broadcast, Mann asserted, may be of either "still" or "action" images. The apparatus in its final form, he declared, would be a comparatively inexpensive attachment, which the user would "plug in" to his regular radio receiver. (SF Examiner, Dec. 3)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:30 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 7p.m, Studio (sound); 7:45, Cartoons by Television; 9 to 9:30, Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
6:15, Studio and Television stars.
[AP] 6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30 p.m., Variety.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:30 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
3 to 5:30, 6 to 6:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
6:30 to 7, 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:33 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, 147 meters
[AP] 7:30—Studio (sound); 8—Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9--Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, 107 meters
[AP] 6:30—Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7—Novelty; 9:30 to 10—Novelty.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—A practicable means of retarding criminal activities was seen here last week, when police authorities were permitted to witness a demonstration of television. The exhibit, which was staged to show how authorities may flash images and finger prints of wanted men to all parts of the city within an instant’s notice, has received the indorsement of Police Commissioner John H. Alcock [right], who says the instrument will undoubtedly prove of great value in police work.
The demonstration was staged in the studio of Station W9XAP, the television station of “The Chicago Daily News.” As the group of officials were seated before the television receiver, images and finger prints were flashed on the screen, and later the subjects were brought into the room for identification. All were pleased with the results, and expressed the opinion that the apparatus is capable of transmitting the images with sufficient detail to permit positive identification.
Authorities at Demonstration
Among those who attended the demonstration, in addition to Acting Commissioner Alcock, were Chief of Detectives John Norton, Coroner Herman N. Bundesen, William Evans, son of the captain and director of the homicide
division of the Bureau of Identification, Alderman James Coule, chairman of the City Council police committee; E. D. Hayes, Federal supervisor of radio in the 9th District; Judge Michael L. McKinley, of the Superior Court; ad Clem F. Wade, president of the Western Television Corporation, who designed and constructed the apparatus.
While admitting that television is from perfect, the Police Commissioner declared that it has been developed to a stage highly adaptable to police work. He said that with television receivers installed in every outpost and officer’s booth it would be possible to transmit “line-ups” without calling members of the force to headquarters, thus saving considerable time and permitting more members of the department to view the suspects.
Tells of Advantages
While appearing before the television transmitter during the demonstration, Commissioner Alcock said: “There are great drawbacks in having police chow-ups at a central station. They mean that police have to leave their own districts to come and see the suspect. And they are crowded into one room, where they cannot see so well.
“It would be almost impossible for the man to escape if his picture were flashed to all of the outlying stations by this instrument.”
Further improvement in television will undoubtedly come within a short time, officials believe, but the present apparatus applied to police work in this manner would be satisfactory.
Television Station
The station W9XAP which was used demonstration last week has been in operation on an experimental basis for the last six months. It operates jointly with station WMAQ here, which transmits aural broadcasting in conjunction with the television transmission.
Specially designed studios have been constructed for the television transmitter. The apparatus consists of two scanning instruments which permit focusing all persons in the studio within range of the television transmitter.
Radio experts believe this is the first demonstration of television which has been applied to a practical field. Fingerprint experts present at the demonstration declared that while the set did not transmit every detail of the prints, those characteristics which are most important in identification were brought out with greater clearness.
Basis for Criminal Attack
Witnesses who saw the demonstration last week believed that television can quickly become the basis for a concerted offensive against the criminal, not only in the Chicago metropolitan area but elsewhere.
In the statement issued by Mr. Wade designer of the television equipment it was pointed out that police equipped with such apparatus would have an effective means of visual communication known to science.
“An habitual criminal’s name means nothing to the policeman on the beat,” he said. “But when the name is visualized for him on the television screen that policeman becomes a vital force in that criminal’s apprehension, instead of a mere crime deterrent as he is in many instances today. With the aid of c1ear television pictures as demonstrated las week, it is actually possible for every patrolman, no matter how far removed his station house from headquarters, to attend the daily “show-up” by looking into the television receiver before he goes out on his beat. Were this procedure repeated, day after day, intelligent policemen would be far better equipped to combat the gangsters and habitual criminals because he would be able to recognize them.
Citing another example where television could render police aid, Mr. Wade said: “Suppose a ‘job’ looks to the investigators first on the case like the work of a known criminal whose picture is contained in the identification bureau. The man in charge telephones his superior immediately. The proper photograph is placed before the television camera at headquarters, and in a split second every man in a police automobile cruising about the streets and the entire personnel of the station houses knows exactly what the man who is wanted looks like.
“It is this instantaneousness of television that will give the police the advantage. Television would also prove invaluable to the police in the location of missing persons. In Chicago, New York and other cities there are literally thousands of calls each year for the police department to assist in finding persons who have disappeared.” (Herald Tribune, Dec. 7)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
7 to 7:15 p.m.—From Television Laboratories—Flufferettes.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1931
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanor Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
10 to 10:30; 11:33 to 12 noon, 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7:00; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
IOWA CITY, Dec. 9—What is believed to be the first practical demonstration was performed here last night [8] by W. N. Parker, engineer of the Western Television corporation of Chicago before members of the Iowa City Engineers Club. By tuning in on the experimental television station of WMAQ, Chicago, the Iowa City audience witnessed the reproduction of a girl making paper flowers in the Chicago Daily News building. (Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette and Republican, Dec. 9)
“Television will become as universal as radio when electrical current frequencies are co-ordinated,” declared Mr. William N. Parker, engineer of the Western Television corporation, as he demonstrated this new marvel before members of the Iowa City Engineers club Monday night [8] at the American legion building.
He gave the second demonstration of television that has ever been made in the city. Turning on the current and tuning in on Chicago radio station's television broadcast with his set, there appeared in the small screen the re-production of a woman making paper flowers.
Because of the difference in frequency of the alternating currents here and in Chicago, the picture was imperfect, but gave those present a conception of what it would be with identical current.
“Already there are about 400 television receivers being operated in private homes of Chicago," Mr. Parker said. "Thus far the science has been mostly experimental, but as soon as congress passes a law allowing a company to derive revenue from television operation, it can be placed on a self-supporting basis like radio. Such is now prohibited by law.”
The president of the Western Television company is C. F. Wade, graduate of the University of Iowa law school in 1913, and a nephew of Judge Martin J. Wade of Des Moines. (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Dec. 9)
The Federal Radio Commission has granted Stations W2XCD of Passaic, and W2XCR, of Jersey City, exclusive channels for their experimental work in perfecting television. The two stations will use the frequency band for the very first time tonight.
Previously, the channel from 2,000 to 2,100 kilocycles was shared with the experimental station of the National Broadcasting Company and also with Station W2XR, of Long Island City. The use of the ban by the several stations caused distorted picture reception.
Both the Jersey City station and the Passaic station are owned by the DeForest Radio Corporation, although the former is operated by a subsidiary, the Jenkins Television Company. They will use the channel on split time, and it is planned to give continuous picture and sound program from 8 o’clock until midnight, each night. (Daily News, Passaic, Dec. 8)
New Jersey television enthusiasts will no longer be troubled with heterodyne effects of other radio stations outside the State while they are enjoying the picture programs put on the air nightly by W2XCD, of Passaic, and W2XCR, of Jersey City.
At a meeting of television experts before the Federal Radio Commission in Washington recently, the stations were granted an exclusive channel for experimental work in perfecting the new field. The new frequency channel takes in a band from 2,000 to 2,100 kilocycles. The band will be used on split time by the two broadcasters.
Heretofore, the experimental station of the National Broadcasting Company, W2XBS, located on the roof of the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City, was assigned the same frequency as W2XCD and this caused conflict on the air, resulting in diagonal lines across the picture. Station W2XR, operated by Radio Pictures, Inc., of Long Island City, also had a wave channel near that of the New Jersey stations.
The commission agreed to put the Jersey stations on one channel, and assigned the New York broadcasters a channel of their own on a frequency of 2,100 to 2,200 kilocycles. No interference should be encountered after tomorrow. W2XR may also operate on 2,850 to 2,950 kilocycles. Heretofore “lookers-in” who picked up W2XCD had to wait until after 10 p. m. when W2XBS shut down, before they could get undistorted pictures.
W2XCD is owned and operated by the De Forest Radio Company and is licenses to use 5,000 watts, but operates on much less output.
W2XCR is owned and operated by the Jenkins Television Corporation. It also operates on low power, but its signals, which have been on the air for over a year, are picked up in Washington, D. C., as well as points in the West. This station broadcasts sound radio movies every evening, except Saturday and Sunday, between the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock. After 9 and until 10 o’clock, a silent program of movies and direct vision subjects is put on. W2XCD is on every night, except Saturday and Sunday, between 8 and 10:30 o’clock.
It is planned to run programs from 8 a. m. until midnight as soon as a schedule is arranged with W2XCR. Plans are underway in Passaic to build a studio directly beneath the transmitter, where artists may appear in person. A new and improved direct vision camera will be installed, which will pick up and broadcast the images and voice at the same time.
Those who represent the New Jersey interests were A.B. DuMont of Montclair, vice-president of the DeForest Radio Company, in Passaic, and Charles Hoffman, television engineer for the DeForest firm. The Jenkins corporation was represented by D. E. Replogel [sic], assistant to the vice-president.
The commission also ruled that the Victor television station in Camden share time on the channels used by W2XBS and W2XR.
Plans are underway to install television receivers in many of the radio stores throughout northern New Jersey, so that the public can drop in during the day or evening to see the pictures as they are received over the air. It is estimated that the television audience of the country includes 20,000. Of course there are other stations in Boston and Chicago putting on programs nightly, and occasionally these programs can be tuned in by listeners in this vicinity. (Daily Herald, Passaic, Dec. 8)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
7:30 to 8:00—From Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 p.m.—Studio artists and television program; 4:30 p.m.—Studio artists in television program.
[AP] 6:30—Variety (sound); 7:00—Novelty; 8:00—Studio; 8:30—Tele-Cartoons.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7:00—Novelty; 9:00-9:30—Variety.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
8:45 to 9 a.m.; 2 to 2:15 p.m.; 4:30 to 5; 8 to 8:25 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 4 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
Miss Ruth Rutkoskie, well-known St. Joseph girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cass Rutkoskie, of Winchester avenue, who has met with considerable success as a radio singer from station WCFL will be heard this afternoon [10] from station WIBO at 4:30 o'clock when she will sing four numbers.
Miss Rutkoskie had a try-out on Monday [8] in a television broadcast, and was accepted almost immediately. As one of the pioneers in this new field of broadcasting, it is expected that Miss Rutkoskie will continue the almost phenomenal success that has marked her radio career. (St. Joseph, Mich. Herald-Press, Dec. 10)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
1:45 to 2 p.m.; 4:30 to 5:00 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12 noon to 1 p.m.; 3:05 to 4:30; 5:15—Studio and television stars; 6 to 6:45 p.m.
Reception of television programs or movies by radio has been announced for the first time in this vicinity by F. L. Warren, local photographer, and Carl Miller, high school student, who assisted in the assembly of the apparatus necessary for the reception of visual programs.
The movies received here by radio are broadcast from station W3XK, the Jenkin's [sic] Television laboratory at Washington, D. C. This station offers a two hour program five nights a week, consisting of silhouettes and half tone movie projected from regular movie film. These signals cannot be heard on the ordinary radio set but require a "short wave" set tuning from around 80 to 150 meters. While there are probably many short wave sets in this community capable of listening in on W3XK’s signals. Mr. Warren is the first to report the reception of the visual broadcast.
Set Demonstrated
Warren and Miller demonstrated their set last night [11] to a Record reporter. As television is altogether in the experimental stage all the necessary parts for the receiver and scanning mechanism were assembled at Warren's apartment on Ninth avenue. The program began at eight o’clock, and when the set was tuned in the announcement was heard:
“You are listening to station W3XK, the Jenkin's [sic] Television Laboratory at Washington, D. C.”
After announcing the frequencies used and the scanning system used the voice concluded, “We will now broadcast our regular tuning picture ‘The Little Girl Bouncing the Ball.”’ When the announcer stops speaking a sound is heard which somewhat resembles a buzz-saw. A switch is thrown and the sound ceases.
Looking through a magnifying lens six inches in diameter one sees the outline in silhouette of a little girl bouncing a ball on the ground. When the picture is finished, which takes about ten or fifteen minutes, the announcer is again heard explaining the next picture to be sent. Some of the titles are “The Big Fight," "The Gold Rush,” "Dr. Pain,” and "One Wild Day.” One of the half tone portraits is of Dr. Lee De Forest. One is entitled “Television Song” and another "Prominent Persons.”
Neon Lamp Used
When receiving the radio picture a neon lamp is used. This resembles an ordinary radio tube somewhat but it only contains a “plate” or square of metal. Warren uses a tube containing a plate one and one half inches square. When in use the plate becomes luminous, and glows with a delicate orange light. The light flickers rapidly. The lamp is placed behind a disc sixteen inches in diameter containing forty eight holes arranged in a spiral. The disc revolves nine hundred times a minute. So that that one sees through the small holes and the glowing surfaces of the plate in the tube. The moving picture appear to on the revolving disc.
There are more than thirty five listed stations in the United State broadcasting television programs, but the station at Washington I received with the strongest signal here. (Hickory, N.C. Daily Record, Dec. 12)
According to an estimate published in Radio World, there are 1,000 television receivers in operation in the United States. For the time being the majority of these are being used for test purposes by television officials and engineers. It is reported that the manufactures of this type of equipment are getting ready for the expected flood of sales. At present, broadcasts are being made from about a dozen laboratories. Radio dealers in Chicago are selling the television receivers manufactured by the Western Television Corporation. These receivers were built to receive the sight and sound programs broadcast by WMAQ of that city. (St. Louis Star, Dec. 11)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:30 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
7 to 9 a.m.; 9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 1:30 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30 p.m.; 6 to 6:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
1:33 a.m. to 12 noon; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
11 to 11:30—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
[AP] 7:30—Studio; 8:00—Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9 p.m.—Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7:00—Novelty; 9 to 9:30 p.m.—Novelty
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Television continued this week to lead ether developments before the Federal Radio Commission when it was learned that the Columbia Broadcasting System, whose application for a television station construction permit, had brought an adverse examiner’s report, would be granted early next week after an informal hearing. It was reported the commission stood tour to one for favorable action.
At the same time Gerald C. Gross, commission engineer, who acted as secretary to the conference of leading engineers held last week at the commission’s offices to discuss television problems submitted his report showing unanimous agreement at those attending on a new allocation of existing television stations. This was said to be the first Instance where a group of broadcasters had been in complete agreement on a matter of such importance, and in which each was vitally affected.
Request Application Action
The Columbia development came about after it had filed a bill of exceptions with the Commission which it contended Elmer W. Pratt, examiner, who presided over the hearing on the application, and who recommended that action on the system’s request be withheld for six months to allow it time to make a showing of substantial research work had erred in his recommendation, and that the application should be granted.
It would be “unnecessary and unwise,” Columbia insisted, “to require the engineering organization of the applicant to develop its own apparatus independently and thereby to duplicate developments of the highest order carried on by other agencies and shown to be made available to the applicant.”
Mr. Pratt in his report, had pointed out that Columbia should be required to make investigations independent of the work of the R. C. A-Victor Corporation “and without that company’s actual participation.”
Cite Examiner’s Findings
“The examiner has found that the applicant will rely entirely on the research work heretofore done by the R. C. A.-Victor Corporation, s competitor,” the Columbia bill of exception observes, “whereas he should have found that the applicant upon thorough investigation has decided that the apparatus developed by said R. C. A.-Victor Corporation is the most efficient apparatus available, and that it proposes merely to purchase such apparatus from said corporation, and that the R. C. A-Victor Corporation is in no way a competitor of the applicant.
“The examiner has found,” the bill continued, “that ‘it was nowhere shown that applicant had conducted any laboratory research work whatever,’ whereas he should have found that the apparatus of the R. C. A-Victor Corporation was of such degree of efficiency, in view of the present state of television technique, that it is not necessary for applicant to duplicate the apparatus development research, and that applicant could have taken advantage of such research as a starting point for its own experimenting.”
Have Television Engineers
Exception also was taken by Columbia to the statement of Mr. Pratt that the only expert television engineer on its staff was in the employ of R. C. A.-Victor, the bill declaring that its engineering staff contains men experienced in television well qualified to go ahead with television research work.
Commission engineers, for the greater part, would not comment on the new process for television transmission invented by Philo T. Farnsworth, San Francisco engineer. Mr. Gross, however, indicated that he was open-minded on the subject, but had not attended a demonstration of the vacuum tube.
Holds Television Experimental
This view was also held by Dr. Frank Conrad, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company engineer, and pioneer broadcaster, who dec1ared at the conference “that in television at the present time we are all groping around in the dark and that it cannot be said that any system is yet ready to stay fixed for any appreciable length of time, but on the contrary is subject to change from day to day.”
Under the allocation agreed to by those the attending the conference, the Jenkins laboratories would have three stations operating in the band between 2,000 and 2,100 kilocycles. The DeForest Radio Company also would
operate one station within this band, as would Harold E. Smith, of Beacon, N. Y. The band of 2,100 to 2,200 kilocycles would be reserved for the National Broadcasting Company, R. C. A.-Victor, General Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and the Chicago Daily News. Radio Pictures, Inc., the Chicago Federation of Labor and Purdue University would be assigned to the band of 2,750-2,850 kilocycles, and the band of 2,850-2,950 would be used by the United Research Corporation, the short wave and television Laboratories, Inc., and the Great Lakes Broadcasting Company. The report will need the approval of Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, commission chief engineer, and the commission before final adoption. (Herald Tribune, Dec. 14)
The Federal Radio Commission this week adopted the recommendation of the recent television engineering conference regarding the reallocation of the assignments of the experimental stations so as to afford greater geographical separations and eliminate interference on the short wave channels.
Other proposals of the conference are now being considered by the Engineering Division of the Commission and probably will likewise recommend for approval within the next week or so.
This realignment of visual broadcasting stations is expected to aid in the experiments and to hasten the day when the art will be ready for public entertainment on a commercial scale.
The new reallocation goes into effect on December 15. The assignments follow:
2,000—2,100 kilocycles
W3XK 5,000 Wheaton, Md.
W2XCR 5,000 Jersey City, N. J.
W2XAP 250 Portable
W2XCD 5,000 Passaic, N. J.
W9XAO 500 Chicago, Ill.
W2XBU 100 Beacon, N. Y.
2,100—2,200 kilocycles
W3XAK 5,000 Bound Brook, N. J.
W3XAD 500 Camden, N. J.
W2XBS 5,000 New York, N. Y.
W2XCW 20,000 E. Schenectady, N. Y.
W8XAV 20,000 E. Pittsburgh, Pa.
W9XAP 1,000 Chicago, Ill.
W2XE 500 Long Island City, N. Y.
2,750—2,850 kilocycles
W2XBO 500 Long Island City, N. Y.
W9XAA 1,000 Chicago, Ill.
W9XG 1,500 West Lafayette, Ind.
2,850—2,950 kilocycles
W1ZAV 500 Boston, Mass.
W2XR 500 Long Island City, N. Y.
W9XR 5,000 Downers Grove, Ill. [WENR radio]
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
7 to 7:15 p.m.—From Television Laboratories—Flufferettes.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30 p.m.; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
10 to 10:30 a.m.; 11:33 to 12 noon; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (A.P.)—Television experiments will soon by underway by two nation-wide broadcasting companies.
The Columbia Broadcasting System, with the granting of a license [15] by the Federal Radio Commission for a short wave transmitter atop its New York studios, today made preparations to take its place beside the National Broadcasting Company in conducting test transmissions.
NBC engineers have been using the Times Square Theatre studios in the Broadway theatrical district as the location of a short wave transmitter and other television equipment to make experiments in cooperation with the RCA-Victor laboratories located at Camden, N.J.
The CBS tests are to deal with the production of acts for television transmission through the studio, for public reception as well as with the other problems which must be solved before engineers consider television will be in a position to take its place along with sound.
The license, which was granted to the Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation, owner of the chain’s key station, WABC, and subsidiary of CBS, calls for the use of the band 2750 to 2850 kilocycles with a power of 500 watts.
According to the present plans, it is the intention to start the transmission of images shortly after the first of the year.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 p.m.—Studio Artists and Television program; 4:30—Studio Artists in Television program.
[AP] 6:30—Variety (with sound); 7 p.m.—Novelty; 8 p.m.—Studio; 8:30—Tele-Cartoons.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7 p.m.-Novelty; 9 to 9:30—Variety.
After Television came in sufficiently strong to be labelled a success the lads switched to the sound-and-see mike. Previously all their fan mail had been most complimentary. Now most all the letters are the burn up kind.
Fans, in Peoria, Ill., want to know why Pratt always has to wear a bow tie.
Bloomington wants to know why the boys don’t shave now and then.
Other towns come through expressing great disappointment at the two because, after hearing them for some years, without having to look at them, they can’t imagine why they should now look the way they do.
From Neck Up
At present the two have only to worry about their face and neckties as the Television doesn’t carry any lower. It is possible for WX9AP to show as far down as the hips, but because of the excessive drain of current required for the operation this is seldom done.
Consequently, Ransom and Pratt spend plenty of time in, the barber shops shaving and keeping their muggs shining. To offset the hard working period, when they can be both seen and heard, the boys have rented a room at their own expense in the building. Here, after the Television period the boys flee for rest and recuperation. They have to get with themselves before hitting back again for the straight radio broadcast room, where all they have to do is sing and chatter.
Both lads wear cheaters all the time, and keep them on when up before the little back box of the Television set. Here, always in a sitting position, the two hold their sheet music out of range of the box, and take great care to turn the pages so as to make no rustle. They have to do a cheek rubbing turn to be sure and get both their mugs over the wire. Visitors are not allowed at these see and hear broadcasts so in this respect the boys don’t have to worry.
Both, however, see that their hair is just so before sitting down, with always a final polish of the teeth before they make the room. Pratt, who has had the kicks about his bow tie, won’t remove it because he’s never worn any other kind. Sherman goes in for four-in-hands. (Variety, Dec. 17)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
8:45 to 9 a.m.; 2 to 2:15 p.m.; 4:30 to 5 p.m.; 8 to 8:25 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:15 to 1 p.m.; 4 to 4:30; 6 to 7 p.m.
The first series of comic cartoon strips ever to be broadcast by television will be placed on the air through Station WMAQ, at Chicago, after the first of the year by Kenneth Snyder, former Anderson young man who is here spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder, 1530 Cincinnati avenue, and with Mrs. Snyder's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor Jones, 1106 Nichol avenue.
Mr. Snyder will return to Chicago about Dec. 28 to make final arrangements for broadcasting of the comic strips by television. He will be on the air from a half to a hour daily, according to present plans, and if the project meets with success expected by operators of the station, the former Andersonian probably will expand his work.
Some of his own experiences are to be used as subjects for the first series to be prepared by Mr. Snyder tor the television broadcasts. Since graduating from Anderson High School five years ago, Mr. Snyder has visited various parts of the country and has been engaged in a number of interesting projects. A few years ago, he was under contract with an animated cartoon motion picture company at Hollywood, Calif. His talent as a cartoonist became evident early in his high school career, and he has developed his ability along that line steadily.
TO ILLUSTRATE STRIP
Launching of another project soon after the first of the year when the Smith Family, heard each Sunday afternoon over Station WENR, will be placed in a newspaper comic strip will enable Mr. Snyder to realize one of his early ambitions. One of his earliest aims was to draw comic strips for newspapers, and that goal has been attained through closing of a contract with Harry Lawrence, creator of the Smith Family.
The former Anderson cartoonist will illustrate the activities of the Smith Family for Mr. Lawrence, and the cartoons are expected to appear in a number of newspapers over the nation. The Smith Family has been one of the most popular features over WENR for some time, and conversion of the radio attraction into a newspaper comic strip will create wide interest, especially in the area served by the Chicago station.
Mr. Snyder has been attending the Academy of Fine Arts at Chicago during the early part of the winter. Selection of the former local young man to prepare cartoons for television broadcasting is considered a high honor. Station WMAQ, operated by the Chicago Daily News, is the only Chicago radio station in the television field. It is stated that there are between 4,000 and 5,000 television receiving sets in the Chicago area. (Anderson, Ind. Daily Bulletin, Dec. 17, 1930)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
1:45 to 2 p.m.; 4:30 to 5 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12 noon to 1 p.m.; 3:05 to 4:30 p.m.; 6 to 6:45 p.m (6:15—Studio and television stars).
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:30 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
7 to 9 a.m.; 9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 1:30 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30 p.m. (4:30—Ruth Rutkoskie, songs); 6 to 6:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.—In the belief of Philo T. Farnsworth, practical television has arrived.
This twenty-four year old engineer, who has spent eight years in intensive development work, bases his statement on results of his experiments with apparatus which functions without mechanical aid.
He has done electrically what others have done with motors and scanning disks.
He employs special vacuum tubes.
To harness the almost infinite flying dot of television he uses a “dissector” and an “oscilight.”
There are the vacuum tubes that discard scanning disks and motors, required in other systems.
The “director is the transmitting photo-electric cell which contains components for scanning an image electrically. The tube looks like a fruit jar.
The “oscilight” is a pear-shaped receiving tube, containing a picture screen four inches square in the flat end. It reverses the process of the “director” and makes the image visible at the receiver.
Farnsworth also has developed a method whereby he can send television on a wave band only five kilocycles wide, half the width required for mound.
In effect, this is done by altering the wave form as it leaves the transmitter. It is changed back to its original form in the receiver.
Farnsworth said the method could be adapted for wire line distribution of programs, similar to that used for sound.
Like other systems, the Farnsworth method requires radio transmitters and receivers which function the same as they do with microphones and loudspeakers.
The picture reproduced seems to be considerably sharper than that of other systems.
This is due, Farnsworth explained, to the fact that his picture contains 300 lines compared with forty-eight to sixty where mechanical scanners used.
The Farnsworth reproducer may be designed for attaching to any receiver. It requires a tuning system and an amplifier.
The designer explained it could he built either into a receiver for television alone, or combined with a set that would pick up synchronized sound and vision.
Instead of the pink tinge of the picture reproduced by the neon lamp, the Farnsworth tube makes its copy in black and white with only a slight yellowish shading.
Farnworth is a graduate of Utah university, doing his early experimental work at the Crocker Research laboratory, financed by R. N. Bishop and W. W. Crocker of San Francisco. Television Laboratories later was incorporated to take over the work. (Bergen Evening Record)
New Developments Will Help Columbia Establish Television
New York, Dec. 19.—Approval by the Federal Radio Commission of the entrance of the Columbia Broadcasting System into the field of experimental television and the recent merger by the same network of the seven largest concert bureaus indicate that, despite the general recession, broadcasting continues rapidly to progress.
William S. Paley, president of the Columbia system and chairman of the board of the newly organized Columbia Concerts Corporation, sees in the two developments much of promise to the present millions of listeners and to the future television observers.
"Through the concerts corporation and the Paramount-Publix Corporation, the Columbia network now has direct contact with famous concert performers, opera stars and motion picture artists," says Mr. Paley. "I know they are all vitally interested in the progress of television.
Hope to Hasten Service.
"By bringing the competitive energy and engineering resources of the Columbia Broadcasting System into the development of television, its transition from the present experimental stage to actual service to the public will, we hope, be hastened.
"Our experimental television transmitter, for which a license has been granted by the Federal Radio Commission to the Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation, is expected to be completed early in 1931. It must be recognized that television still is in the experimental stage. We believe that the public will not get television in the form they expect it for some time to come. In our experimental television broadcasting we hope to contribute largely to the development of this important field of the future.
"Installation of the transmitter is going forward at the Columbia Broadcasting System building, 485 Madison avenue, New York, where an additional floor is being occupied for this and other expansion. The antenna will be on the roof of this twenty-four story building. The 500-watt transmitter will broadcast on an experimental basis. It will operate in the 2,750-2,850 kilocycle band.
Experiments Each Day.
"Parts of each day will be devoted to television artists as they broadcast, making it possible for amateur experimentalists in the metropolitan area who have television receivers and radio receivers to see and hear the same program. We anticipate that their observations and those of the skilled engineers will be of great assistance to the development of this art. The broadcasting of the picture of the artist will not be on a commercial basis but will be aimed to develop the technique of picking up such pictures through proper placement of the artists and to explore the entertainment capabilities of the artists.
“Of course we are looking forward to the day when television images may be transmitted from New York to other cities by wire, just as network broadcasting programs are carried now. This will require a great deal of research to develop a wire capable of carrying the wide range of frequencies and to narrow the present 100-kilocycle band of frequencies for television so that more channels will be made available for additional television stations.
“In granting the Columbia System this opportunity to contribute to television development, the Federal Radio Commission has shown commendable foresight and has wisely adhered to the American principle of free and unrestricted development of science and invention.”
E. K. Cohan, technical director of the Columbia System, says:
“Our Engineering Planning Board is very gratified by the Federal authority just granted, permitting as it does, the commencement of extensive experimental activities, after many months of careful planning in a field which ultimately will become an indivisible part of our already extensive activities in oral broadcasting.
“The operation of our transmitter early in 1931 will enable us to determine in the most logical location in the entire United States the effects of all kinds of obstacles and interferences on the transmission of ethereal images. In addition, the present facilities already available in our New York headquarters will enable us carefully to study the most probable future optical requirements.” (Hartford Courant)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
[AP] 7:30—Studio (sound); 8:00—Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9 p.m.-Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
8:30—With Sound; 8:45 to 9 p.m.—Novelty; 9:30 to 10—Novelty.
New York. Dec. 20 (AP)——About February 1 will see the CBS on the air with experimental television broadcasts.
At least, that was the best estimate engineers could make today as they completed preliminary arrangements to set up a 500-watt short wave television transmitter at the chain’s headquarters in downtown New York. A license to use 2,710-2,850 kilocycles has been granted.
The transmissions are to comprise the televising of artists as they broadcast, making the pictures available to amateur experimenters and others in the metropolitan area.
An announcement stated that “the broadcasting will be aimed to develop the technique of picking up pictures through proper placement of artists and to explore the entertainment capabilities of the artists.
It also was said that “we are looking forward to the day when television images may be transmitted to other cities by wire just as network broadcasts are now carried, but this will require much research.”
Two special television studios will be used at the start. (C.E. Butterfield column)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
7 to 7:15 p.m.—From Television Laboratories—Flufferettes.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 to 5:30 p.m., 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 p.m.—Studio Artists and Television program; 4:30—Studio Artists in Television program.
[AP] 4:30 to 5 p.m.—Songs.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7 p.m.—Novelty; 9 to 9:30—Variety.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
8:45 to 9 a.m., 2 to 2:15 p.m., 4:30 to 5 p.m. 8 to 8:25 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:15 to 1 p.m., 4 to 4:30 p.m., 6 to 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 p.m.—Studio Artists and Television program; 4:30—Studio Artists in Television program.
[AP] 4:30 to 5 p.m.—Vocal.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7 p.m.—Novelty; 9 to 9:30—Variety.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:30 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
[AP] 4:30 to 5 p.m.—Songs.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7 p.m.—Novelty; 9:30 to 10 p.m.—Variety.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
1:45 to 2; 4:30 to 5 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:30 to 1; 6:15 to 7 p.m.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
7 to 7:15 p.m.—From Television Laboratories—Flufferettes.
Television To Grow in 1931
New York, Dec. 28. (AP)—A decade of broadcasting celebrated in 1930, greets the new year with the flush of success.
Mass transmission of entertainment passes from the old season as a likely leader in the radio firmament.
It seemed to be able to mark up progress of a more active nature than did the industry itself, which, although two are closely allied, encountered obstacles caused by the well-publicized "business depression."
The tenth year of broadcasting, including the celebration of the event by KDKA, Pittsburgh, saw important advancement in the international distribution of programs. At the same time improved American presentations were not ignored.
Television Advanced.
Television entered the picture in a more pronounced manner. Coupled with laboratory developments, came the decision by the National Broadcasting Company to make transmission tests to determine the possibilities of radio sight.
Then, as the year began to wane, the Columbia Broadcasting System announced that with the granting of a television license it, too, soon would begin experiments.
From the laboratory of Philo T. Farnsworth, 24-year-old San Francisco engineer, came the outstanding announcement. He reported that after eight years in the use of special vacuum tubes in place of mechanical scanning apparatus he felt that he had made sufficient progress to warrant the statement that practical television had been attained. (C.E. Butterfield)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 to 5:30 p.m., 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:30 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
2 p.m.—Studio Artists and Television program; 4:30—Studio Artists in Television program.
[AP] 7:30 to 8 p.m.—Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7 p.m.—Novelty; 9 to 9:30—Variety.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1930
W1XAV (WNAC), Boston, video on 141 meters, audio on 1230 kcs.
12:15 to 1:00—Noon Day Revue, broadcast from Television Laboratories.
3:00 to 4:00—Women’s Federation, broadcast from Television Laboratories, conducted by Eleanore Geer.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
[AP] 7:30 to 8 p.m.—Variety.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
[AP] 6:30—With Sound; 6:45 to 7 p.m.—Novelty; 9 to 9:30—Novelty.
Once upon a time, there were two related companies—the Jenkins Television Corporation and the De Forest Radio Company. Jenkins had a TV station at Jersey City called W2XCR. It broadcast pictures. The sound came from De Forest’s W2XCD in Passaic, New Jersey. Then the idea hit them—why couldn’t De Forest have a TV station, too? And why not move the Jersey City station across the Hudson River to Manhattan?
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