July 1928

Uncle Miltie, the first TV star?

Hardly.

A case could be made instead for Jeanne Marie Belote. Or Catherine and Constance Rounds. They were seen when 3XK in Washington, D.C. began a regular, three-times-a-week schedule of programmes in July 1928.

Viewers didn’t quite see them, though. Jenkins’ “radio movies” were silhouette films, ones his station showed over and over and over again.

A bigger story that month was the Federal Radio Commission deciding to issue experimental television licenses and assign call-letters. Among them was granted to a station that remains on the air today as WNBC-TV—W2XBS. A couple may never have broadcasted at all. P.S. Lucas’ W6XBW was struck off the list by the Commission in January 1929 and W2XBT suffered the same fate in September 1929; the call letters were re-assigned to RCA.

The television item that seems to have grabbed the most attention was what amounted to a closed-circuit test. In New York, the Bell Telephone lab broadcast a golfer and a tennis player in action from a camera on the roof. Bell crowed that, not only could a television camera pick up more than someone’s head, this meant the possibility of remote broadcasts, like baseball from the Polo Grounds of a fight from Madison Square Garden. The prognosticating engineer was about ten years ahead of his time; the mechanical, disc-driven television would be obsolete when it happened.

Meanwhile, other stations were broadcasting what amounts to fax transmissions, where people could print a still picture transmitted to their home.

Below are some of the highlights for July 1928.

SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1928
TELEVISION FOR HOME WILL NOT BE READY FOR 5 YEARS
Photo Transmitting Hasn’t Been Perfected, Engineers Declare—Estimate Improvement to Radio May Be in Experimental Stage Several Years
By C. L. KERN, Radio Editor of The Star.
Although television has been acclaimed by number of radio engineers as being "just around the corner" scientists and engineers will undoubtedly spend many hours in laboratory experiments, ironing out the present difficulties encountered before this type of transmission will be practical for reception in the average home. Some authorities on the subject declare that it will be at least five years before the listener will be able to tune in on a football game or a boxing match and enjoy a grand stand view. Others predict that this will not be possible for at least ten years.
A great deal of television transmission today is being carried on in the short wave channels and has met with only a certain amount of success due to the erratic characteristics of the high frequency bands. Some talk is heard of the present stations in the broadcast bands between 200 and 530 meters utilizing their present assigned frequencies for that purpose. This is practically impossible and probably will be forbidden by the Federal radio commission when it is taken into consideration that the present system of television transmission requires modulation frequencies ranging from eight thousand to thirty thousand cycles. A station using modulation would cover approximately five of the present broadcast channels and would interfere with four other stations. This would tend to create a more congested condition than the present one confronting the commission. In view of these facts it is probable that 'the television transmissions of the future will be confined chiefly to the higher frequency bands.
Faces Are Blurred.
Up to the present time objects used in transmissions have been limited to the face of a man or woman or straight line objects. While the televisor of the receiving apparatus has produced fairly clear reproductions of straight line objects, those of the human face were in many instances blurred.
The first successful attempt was made by the General Electric Company over WGY on Jan.14, under the direction of Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson, who is responsible for the greater part of the development of the art, and was brought in with minute reproduction. On Feb. 8, John L. Baird, London inventor, successfully harnessed the short wave bands and reproductions of the face of a man and woman were received in New York from a transmitter in London. The latter transmission, however, was not received perfectly. Baird at the present time is working on the transmission of motion pictures, accompanied by sound, and is expected to transmit them from a studio in London in September. The broadcast is expected to have a range of fifty miles.
The present transmitting apparatus employs scanning disk with a series of holes which throw a beam of light successively on to as many points of an object to be televised as are required to make a satisfactory picture. The system utilizes a forty-eight-hole disk and produces a picture made up of forty-eight rows of forty-eight dots to the square inch. In order to receive this system the receiver must be equipped with a disk of the same number of holes. The motor driving the disk of the receiver must be in absolute synchronism with the motor driving the disk of the transmitter. Unless a standard number of holes in the disks are adopted by the transmitting stations, or a new system of transmission introduced, a large amount of confusion is likely to be encountered in view of the fact that both the transmitting and receiving disk must contain the same number of holes. The possibility of an interchangeable number of disks is aid to be impossible. The Neon lamp is used in the receiver to change the electrical impulses into light rays instead of sound waves.
“Stills” Are Broadcast.
Experiments in transmission are now being carried on by WGY on its regular broadcast frequency and by WCFL of Chicago. Broadcasts of "stills," which is a reproduction of photographs and is not to be confused with television, is being put on the air by WMAC. WTMJ of Milwaukee, Wis., has been granted a license to broadcast "stills" and will begin about Aug. 1. Two daily schedules, one during daylight and the other about midnight, will be used. WGY's broadcasts are on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons. At the present time reproductions from these stations are being received largely by amateurs, who are expected to contribute much towards the perfection of the new art. While at the present only a few television kits are being offered to the experimenter, an American syndicate has taken over the American rights of the Baird television system and will offer receivers before long at a reasonable price. The Baird sets are expected to be ready for delivery in England about Sept. 1 and will cost approximately $150. The approximate cost of the American Baird set is not known at the present. (Indianapolis Star)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1928
Motion Pictures to Be Broadcasted
Through television on a wavelength of 46.7 meters the Jenkins Laboratory at Washington has announced plans for broadcasting motion pictures for amateurs in the United States and Canada. They will be sent at the rate of 15 a second containing 48 lines to the picture. The performance is to be repeated each Monday night with a different set of pictures. (various papers)

FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1928
RADIO MOVIE IS SUCCESSFUL HERE
The day of broadcasting motion pictures by radio appears to be almost at hand.
Dr. C. Francis Jenkins, prominent radio engineer and inventor of this city, announces to the public that three times a week hereafter he will exhibit a regular program of movies by radio. He is asking the cooperation of all radio amateurs in developing the new art.
Before an audience of officials and newspaper men, Dr. Jenkins last night [6] at his home, 5502 Sixteenth St., demonstrated that a process for broadcasting movies has been found and that it is only a matter of time when radio movies in the home will be as common as loud speaker jazz is today.
On a 46.72 meter wave length a silhouette broadcast from his studio 1519 Connecticut Ave., was reproduced on the screen at his home. Although blurred at times the figures generally were distinct. The blur was due to the low wave length which is designed for long distance broadcasting.
The movie showed a little girl bouncing a ball and jumping around. Dr. Jenkins announced that he will "broadcast" his radio movies at 8 p. m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights.
He will show simple subjects at first, then more complex pictures and later a picture story. Each broadcast will be preceded by an announcement in code and followed by the word “end,” which will be the cue for the radio experimenters to turn the switch back to the loud speaker. (Washington Times-Herald, July 7)

SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928
Licenses Issued for Broadcasting Pictures in Short Wave Band.
WASHINGTON, July 7.—Actual broadcasting of pictures, both "still" and moving will be undertaken by a number of investigators in various sections of the country under licenses for experimental television transmission, which have just been issued by the Federal Radio commission.
These licenses authorize television transmission by the Radio Corporation of America, New York, under the call 2XBS; Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing company, East Pittsburgh, under the call 8XAV; J. Smith Dodge, Lexington, under the call 1XAY; H. E. Smith, Beacon, N. J. under the call 2XBU; P. S. Lucas, Los Angeles, under the call 6XBW; F. L. Carter, Long Island City, N. Y., under the call 2XBT, and the Aero Products, Chicago, under the call 9XAG. These licenses are authorized to 4700 and 4900 kilocycles (63.79 to 61.79. meters). The Jenkins laboratories, Washington, also have been licensed to undertake television transmission, under the call 3XK, on 2140 and 4280 kilocycles (140.1 and 70.05 meters). The number of television transmitters will be increased in the near future upon the completion of stations by W. J. Allen at Salina, Kan., and R. B. Parrish at Los Angeles, permits for the construction of which have been granted by the commission.
The commission has written to all applicants for high frequency licenses, outlining the plan of allocation now under consideration for the short wavelengths, and asking that applicants comment on the suggestions made by Capt. S. C. Hooper, technical adviser to the commission, dealing with allocations and priorities.
It is suggested by Capt. Hooper that experimental development stations be licensed for television between 4500 and 500 kilocycles (66.63 to 58.79 meters), on five 100-kilocycle channels, one channel to be assigned to each zone for night use, and all five channels to be assigned to each zone for day use. In addition, one 100-kilocycle channel in the kilocycle band or the kilocycle band, and two 100-kilocycle channels above 23,000 kilocycles are recommended for television experimental work.
Because of the fact that the demand for short wave channels for various services exceeds the number of wave lengths available, the commission is considering the establishment of priorities based on the "interest, necessity and convenience" to the public of the different services, and it has been recommended that overseas and international relay broadcasting be given priority over the other services, to be followed, in order, by long distance broadcasting beyond reliable distance range of national broadcast network transmissions; television experimental and development work, and national relay broadcasting within the United States.
"It must be borne in mind," it is pointed out by the commission, "that high frequencies are primarily valuable due to their great carrying range, at low cost, and that they cause international interference. Therefore, they must be primarily assigned for long-distance uses when low frequencies are not practicable." (Buffalo News)

Has Television Station
Beacon, N.Y., July 7—(UP)—The Federal Radio commission has granted permission to Harold E. Smith of this city, to set up a television station on the top of Mount Beacon. The permission covers a tentative period, but if Smith is able to contribute to the advancement of the new field of radio research, the permission will be made permanent.
Smith, who constructed three broadcasting stations during the world war and has been experimenting with radio pictures, for two years, has a technical staff of three men and he stated in his application to the commission that two years ago he produced a radio facsimile using rotating brass cylinder and graphite ink.
The station is located on the very summit of Mount Beacon.

MONDAY, JULY 9, 1928
Station officials at KWJJ announce that it will probably be a month before they begin their television experiments. In the meantime Wilbur Jerman is assembling the parts and getting his short wave equipment in working order. KWJJ recently started operating on a somewhat extended schedule, using morning hours daily. (Oregon Daily Journal)

THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928
MOVING PICTURES ARE BROADCAST
Another Step Forward Taken By Science Is Demonstrated
NEW YORK, July 13—July 13.—A figure in flannels and white sport shirt stood on the roof of the Bell Telephone Company Laboratories, 483 West street yesterday [12], and whirled a racket through all the strokes in the tennis player’s repertory. In front of the figure executing lofts and lobs was a television camera.
Three floors below, in a far comer of the building, a group of persons was gathered at the same time. There, in darkness, while Dr. Herbert E. Ives manipulated the electric controls that tuned in on the tennis player, this group watched the same lofts, the same lobs, the same forehand strokes that were being executed on the roof. Television was no longer limited to catching the mere head and shoulders of a man sitting in a radio studio. It was on its way toward carrying spectacles, panoramas and even mob scenes across miles of atmosphere.
The trick of recording the tennis player in action was accomplished by admitting sunlight to partnership with the radio. The glaring lamps that have hitherto been necessary in photographing an image to be broadcast gave way to the rays of the sun. The new device is based on the development of a photo-electric cell of great sensitivity.
"We can take this machine to Niagara, to the Polo Grounds or to the Yale Bowl," said one of the engineers of the Bell Laboratories, “and it will pick up the schene [sic] for broadcasting. The important step we have taken in this new development is that sunlight is used instead of a powerful artificial light. It will “photograph” the cataract of Niagara. We could mount the televisor camera on a platform and revolving tripod at a prize ring and broadcast the fight scene. Television has stepped out of the laboratory as far as transmission is concerned. We are no longer limited to studio work."
The television camera utilises a cloth hood in much the same fashion as the old type of ordinary camera. A lens five inches in diameter projects from an opening in the black cloth. Behind the lens and hidden by the cloth is Nipkow's disk, measuring three feet in diameter. It has fifty tiny holes along its outer rim. They measure 1-16 inch in diameter and are so arranged that no line effect is noticed on the picture at the receiving end. The disk is of aluminium, painted black, and when in operation it revolves so that each of the little light openings passes a given point eighteen times in a second. This creates 900 lines to “paint” the image. The impulses are so rapid that the lines are blended and the picture looks like a half-tone.
The great sensitivity of the new photo-electric cell is the reason why less light is required on the image. The camera will even operate on a hazy day, but clouds that shut off the sun lower the efficiency of the machine, according to the engineers.
The image is focused by moving the lens back and forth. In fact the principle is the same as that of a Kodak. In the first form of equipment demonstrated in April last year the scene illuminated by a rapidly oscillating beam from a powerful arc light. The scene to be broadcast was thus limited to a very small area. The new machine frees television from this serious limitation. The experiments yesterday showed that moving persons and objects a considerable distance away can be successfully scanned. Dr. Frank Gray was in charge of the television camera in the demonstration.
The televisor was not linked with a broadcasting station in the experiment, but was connected with the receiving apparatus by wire. It was explained by the engineers that this was merely to facilitate the demonstration. They said attachment to a broadcast transmitter could be just as easily handled. The radio-camera can be used several miles from the broadcasting station and be connected to it by land lines as are microphones that pick up music from points outside the studio.
The receiver was shrouded in darkness. One merely saw a picture about two and a half inches square of the tennis player on the roof as he jumped about and swung his racquet. The engineers, however, said there was nothing new in the receiver and that it was the same as demonstrated a year ago. They pointed out that the main new development was the elimination of the glaring "electrical eyes" and the substitution of sunlight at the transmitting end.
“It is merely a step forward," said an engineer. "It does not mean that television will be ready for use in every home equipped with radio tomorrow. The equipment is too elaborate for home use. It requires experts to operate the instruments, although part of the receiving station is an ordinary radio receiving set. We hope to make the pictures larger. We hope to have television so that it can be used in a living room without having it darkened. Perhaps some day we will flash the images on a screen like the movies but when that will be we cannot say.” (Meridien, Conn. Daily Journal)
SIGN TELEVISION ART FOR SPOKANE
Will Send Stills in 30 Seconds to Those Properly Equipped.
Television is coming to Spokane.
Radio station KHQ has ordered and will install a Cooley photo transmitter shortly before Christmas, according to an announcement made today by Louis Wasmer, owner.
First In West.
KHQ will be the first station west of Chicago to install a photo transmitting set, Mr. Wasmer stated. The type of set ordered is the very latest, equipped to broadcast pictures on the regular wave channels between 200 and 600 meters.
"The apparatus, the only successful type of photo transmitter to work on the general broadcast wave lengths between 200 and 600 meters, should reach here about September 15 or 20," said Mr. Wasmer today. "Other types of photo transmitters are successful on low wave bands only. Once we get under way, we hope to transmit to listeners two combined photo and musical programs each week, each probably from 30 minutes to an hour in length.
"While the details of the apparatus have not all been explained, I do know that New York stations now transmitting photographs declare the machine a wonderful success. The photos sent out radio impulse will be 'stills' and it will require about 30 seconds to send out and record on the receiving screen a perfect reproduction of the photo. The picture will remain on receiving screen just as long as the transmitting operator wishes.
"The apparatus will allow the transmission of local photos and still pictures of the person speaking in the transmitter, the impression being recorded when the subject sits in front of a mirror." (Spokane Chronicle)

FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928
KSTP Plans Broadcast of Pictures on Monday
Broadcasting of radio pictures, showing news events and studio scenes incident to radio entertainment programs, will start Monday [16] over station KSTP, [in the Hotel Radisson,] St. Paul, it was announced Thursday by Lytton J. Shields, president of the station. The broadcasting apparatus now is being installed. The programs will be given on Mondays and Fridays at 8 p. m. and on Saturdays at 1:15 p. m.
The station will start this fall the broadcasting of important events, such as prize fights, football games and other similar activities. The broadcasting frequency is 1,360 kilocycles and a convertor makes 800 light impressions per second, resulting in a picture of considerable detail at a size of four by give inches. (Minneapolis Tribune)

KGB TO INSTALL TELEVISION
New Equipment Here In 30 Days
TELEVISION apparatus has been ordered by radio station KGB and within 30 days San Diegans will be able to see their favorite entertainers as they perform, according to George Bowles, manager of the station.
The new equipment will be installed in the KGB’s new studio in the Pickwick Terminal Hotel building, which will be formally opened Monday night [16].
Four stations in the west and one station in Chicago have broadcast successfully with television apparatus, Bowles said today, but the equipment ordered for KGB will be the first installed in the west. Television broadcasts require special receiving sets, but according to Bowles, these sets are priced within reach of most families now.
Bowles received a telegram from Rep. Phil Swing today in which Swing announced he would be present for the opening of the station Monday night. (San Diego Sun)

SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1928
Image Quite Clear In Television Test
Television images broadcast by WGY from Schenectady, N. Y., on the 380-meter wave length are being intercepted in New Jersey by a research engineer of the General Electric Company. He said the images were quite clear and were about one inch square. Television, he added, seems now to be a matter of weeks, not months.
"The entire television attachment to the standard radio set, which made it possible to receive a practically perfect picture, was small enough to be held in the two cupped hands," said the engineer. "It was made possible by one of the latest neon television lamps, which will operate from the output of a broadcast receiver, as only small currents are needed for its operation."
Intermittent television broadcasts were begun by WGY a few weeks ago, but pleas from amateurs and experimenters were so numerous that the station authorities decided upon a regular television schedule on the 380- meter wave. Television impulses are now scheduled for transmission by WGY on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 1:30 and 2 p. m. Eastern daylight saving time. Among the stations in the East engaged in television work are: WLEX of Lexington, and WRNY of New York, the latter of which is preparing to go on the air within a few days with a regular schedule. (San Francisco Examiner)

TELEVISION SCHEDULE
WCFL and WLEX Continue With Picture Experiments.
The broadcasting of suitable television programs, which must always be the foundation of television progress, is now at hand, at least in a few favored localities Certain stations have been licensed for experimental television transmission the frequency band of 4.700 to 4,900 kilocycles. WCFL of Chicago has been granted a license to transmit television signals on short waves, while WLEX of Lexington, been granted similar license under the call letters 1-XAY. The latter station will be on the air regularly around 10 o'clock.
Following in the wake of the transmission experiments, number of reliable radio companies are about to introduce satisfactory kits for the reception of television signals. (Brooklyn Daily Times)
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928
RADIO BOARD ISSUES TELEVISION GRANTS
Memphis Gets Permit for Picture Transmission.
WASHINGTON, July 20.—(AP)—The Federal Radio Commission took its first decisive step in recognition of the potential value of television today when it issued licenses to two transmitters and construction permits to seven others for development and experimentation in the work of sending pictures through the air.
The operating licenses, assigned to the Jenkins Laboratories, Washington, D. C. and J. Smith Dodge, Lexington, Mass., were issued for the period of one year, "subject to revocation unless the applicant makes satisfactory progress in the work and full use of the band."
Within this period the commission expects to determine whether such use is in the public interest or whether the channels should be diverted to others who have petitioned for several years for more positions in the short wave or high frequency spectrum.
Dodge's transmitter was given the call signal 1XAY, to be operated on a 4,800 to 4,900 kilocycle band, wave length of 62.5 to 61.22 meters and 500 watts power. The Jenkins Laboratory was assigned the signal 3XK, to be operated on 4,900 to 5,000 kilocycles, wave length 61.22 to 60, and 5,000 watts.
The Radio Corporation of America was awarded construction permits for three transmitters, one stable and one portable set at New York City, and for another portable outfit at Bound Brook, N. J.
These were assigned the respective call signals 2XBV, 2XBS and 2XBW, with 4,500 to 4,600, 4,600 to 4,700 and 15,100 to 15,200 kilocycles; 66.67 to 65.22, 65.22 to 63.83 and 19,868 to 19,737 meters wave length, and a uniform power of 5,000 watts.
The Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Co. call signal 8XI was assigned to share time with 2XEW. This station was assigned the same frequency but authorized to use 20,000 watts power on a wave length from 63.83 to 62.5 meters. Harold E. Smith, Beacon, N. Y., was assigned call signal 2BXU, to share the facilities set aside for Dodge with 100 watts of power.
Other assignments for construction were WREC, Inc., Memphis, signal 4XA, wave length 125 to 120 meters, 2,400 to 2,500 kilocycles, 5,000 watts, and Robert B. Parrish, Los Angeles, signal 6XC, wave 66.67 to 65.22 meters, 4,500 to 4,600 kilocycles and 15,000 watts. Parrish, signal 6XC, 66.67 to 65.22 meters, 4,500 to 4,600 kilocycles and 15,000 watts.

TO SEND “AIR PICTURES”
Equipment will shortly be installed at station KGFJ, Los Angeles, for the transmission of radio pictures. While the station admits that television is not ready for the public, it classes itself as an experimenter and hopes to assist in making this feature practical. (Meridien Conn. Daily Journal)

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928
Television Radio Set Is Installed
ARTESIA, July 21—E. M. Corcoran of Artesia, radio dealer, has what is believed to be the first tax receipt issued on a radio set to Los Angeles County. He also has received the first television receiving set in this section and will operate it as soon as the television broadcasting is started from Los Angeles next week. (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1928
RADIO TELEVISION SPANS CONTINENT Los Angeles Apparatus Picks Up Image From New York Station.
LOS ANGELES, July 23. (AP)—Radio television last night [22] spanned the continent.
In Los Angeles a small group saw by radio the image of a smooth-shaven man as he sat before the transmitting apparatus in Schenectady, N. Y., 3000 miles away.
The experimenters who achieved success in a large part in the long distance television reception were Kenneth G. Ormiston, veteran radio engineer, and Gilbert Lee, manufacturer.
Hill Top Studio.
The experiments were conducted In Lee's on a hill top here which he had selected because of its excellent position for radio reception. The two had working several quietly on their distance television experiments weeks in Lee's workshop. They had made preparations for their supreme test last night and at 6:15 o'clock, Pacific coast time, when WGY, the broadcasting station of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, broadcast its 15-minute television program, they were ready.
The image was received on a revolving disk behind which was a light. Through a series of perforations in the spinning disk a small square screen took form. Upon the miniature screen of light appeared the image of the head of a man wearing a soft hat.
Two Problems Yet.
The experimenters said two problems remain to be solved—one the overcoming of the problem of "fading" of signals at the broadcasting station and the other the perfecting of the motor speed, which twirls the "scanning disk" to synchronize with of the similar disc at Schenectady.
The two engineers however, said they were sure these difficulties would be conquered if the Schenectady television experts will conduct longer periods of experimentation and at a later hour at night when receptive qualities will be more suitable.

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928
Photographs Through Air Unlike Television
By C. E. BUTTERFIELD
(Associated Press Radio Editor)
New York—(AP)—Radio is delivering legible photographs to its great family of followers.
Not occasionally, but every evening, stations in various sections of the country are broadcasting pictures on regular schedules making them available to all who possess sets for their recording.
Unlike television, which in its present highly experimental stage still has many problems to overcome, radio picture reproduction has reached the point where home reception is as easy as making a phonographic record of a sound broadcast.
Picture Recorder
The home constructor may build a picture recorder, tune in on a station and in three minutes after the photograph starts know what has been sent out. It is necessary only to have a signal fairly free from noise and strong enough to operate a loudspeaker comfortably.
The fan’s footsteps have been guided toward this new field by Austin Cooley, inventor of the Rayfoto system, which depends upon an electric discharge known as “the corona” to expose the photographic paper, line for line.
In receiving pictures, an ordinary broadcast set, preferably one using direct current tubes, is required. It passes the signal to a three-tube picture amplifier, which in turn is coupled to a recording drum. The drum is so constructed that it fits onto the driving shaft of a phonograph motor, upon which it depends for power. It is kept in synchronization with the transmitter by an impulse sent out as part of the picture signal.
While an AC receiver may be used, the 60 cycle ripples that are always present will be recorded as waves on the picture. Only direct current tubes should be employed in the recorder circuit, and the plate supply obtained from batteries. However, some eliminators will function satisfactory. Others produce too much ripple.
In the recorder circuit one tube amplifies the picture signal. Another filters and amplifies the synchronizing signal, while the third generates a high frequency current which is combined with the signal and is sprayed on the photographic paper in the form of a corona discharge. In the Cooley transmission an 800-cycle note is used for the picture and a 1500-cycle note for synchronization.

STATIONS BROADCASTING PHOTOGRAPHS
Regular picture schedules are being maintained by the following stations in the broadcast band:
WMCA—New York; WTMJ, Milwaukee, Wis.; WDEL—Wilmington, Del.; WOKO—Peekskill, N. Y.; KMOX—St Louis; WFI—Philadelphia.
In addition, these stations have arranged to begin photograph transmission soon:
KSTP—St Paul; CKNC—Toronto; CJRM—[Moose Jaw,] Saskatchewan.
MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928
WHK Asks License for Television
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Application of the Radio Air Service Corp. of Cleveland, operating station WHK, for renewal of its experimental license 8XF, was received today by the Federal Radio Commission.
The application states the desire of the applicant to further development of short wave transmission and re-broadcasting, especially of television, on which it is just starting experiments. The corporation asks permission to continue operation on its present frequency of 4,540 kilocycles or 66.04 meters, with a power of 500 watts.
It is understood that there will be no difficulty in securing renewal of the experimental license, but that the corporation cannot be granted a license to transmit television on a frequency used for other work. This is because special bands have been set aside for picture experiments. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 31)