Amidst plenty of predictions and “television is around the corner” chatter in the popular press, Chicago’s two TV stations carried on with regular programming in the months of September and October.
The Associated Press began publishing schedules for the two; considering one station was owned by the Chicago Daily News, that shouldn’t be surprising. Unfortunately, the AP’s listings are incomplete and conflict with those of a newspaper about 30 miles from Chicago, across the state line in Indiana. (The Daily News’ listings are on-line but access is restricted). Variety penned a story about Chicago television at the time and likely gives a good indication of what was being broadcast.
The Federation of Labor in Chicago maintained a TV license, W9XAA, but seemed content with their radio station and radio-television instruction course.
On the West Coast there was no television (a man in Oregon had a television license but apparently ceased test broadcasts by 1930). There was talk of the talky-makers getting into the industry, but the movie studios (with the exception of Paramount, through CBS) shied away in the mechanical TV era.
Behind the scenes, inventors were trying to come up with something other than a whirring disc to send and receive pictures.
Below are what schedules for September and October we can find. New York stations come from the
Sun; some weeks are missing on-line. Chicago comes from the
Munster (Ind.) Times. It didn’t publishing specifics, just on-air hours. When it did not publish listings, we have used what is on the Associated Press wire, which conflicts. There is no information available about the other stations with regular schedules.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1930
NEW YORK, Sept. 2—To make the “flying dot” of television behave is taking up many an hour in the laboratories these days.
Keeping step with, and more often than not, leading progress in the slowly developing art of radio transmission of sight, scientists in the RCA laboratories at Camden, N. J., along with other experimenters, have found that their elusive dot is about as tricky as anything can be.
It is the “flying dot” that builds a picture when transmitted by radio. It starts at one edge of the picture and speeds across it line by line so fast it gives the effect of complete view. When the dot does this stunt 12 or more times a second, the eye sees what it takes to be a movie.
A wide variety of apparatus to make the dot perform to the satisfaction of the engineers has been evolved, none of which seems to hit the nail squarely on the head. A big share of it is based on the scanning disk, which breaks up a light ray into the tiny dots and which first was developed by Nipkow, a German scientist, in the 1880’s.
In the RCA laboratories about every known method, and many not so well known, has been given a try-out. The scientists there are doing their best to lick the television problem.
They have not succeeded yet, but they have hopes that from the apparatus that has been assembled something concrete will yet be developed to provide the home with a foolproof television receiver.
Scanning disks, scanning drums, special cathode ray tubes such as the kinescope, innumerable means of producing rays of light, and attendant apparatus have been put through their steps. All have been found wanting in some vital spot.
Pictures on a small scale, and pictures on a large screen have been reproduced with more or less success. Numerous wavelengths have been tested. As a result, the conclusion has been drawn that the band between 100 and 200 meters tops the other sections of the short wave territory where television transmission in this country apparently is to settle down for the present.
Not overlooking the fact that the television receiver will be a unit separate from the broadcast set, or in combination with it, the engineers believe that their task is not hopeless despite the obstacles they must overcome. They think five years, at the outset, will find radio vision in a more reliable stage.
Still there is the possibility that a year or two may not be too long to wait. Activity already ta beginning to indicate that vision, at least on an experimental basis, is to become a factor in broadcasting by individual
stations within the next year. (C.E. Butterfield)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1930
The west coast’s first big television broadcasting station will be claimed by Warners unless A. T. & T. becomes suddenly active in ether pictures along the Pacific front. Application for an air wave has been filed with the government.
The broadcaster will probably be devoted exclusively to experiments for the first few months after its completion.
On the matter of tele receiving sets, which the Brunswick subsidiary will manufacture, no plans yet have materialized for mass production, according to advices in Warners’ home office.
Brotherites in on the tele move, like some of the electric experts, are now sold on the recording of any real imminence of Television. For “some time yet” it will remain un-commercial from their way of thinking. (Variety, Sept. 3)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (AP)—The radio commission today granted a license to the DeForest Radio company, Passaic, to extend experimentation in television.
The DeForest company was awarded a license to conduct experiments on 2,000 to 2,100 kilocycles and 500 watts in visual broadcasting. The experiments are to be carried on subject to all rules and regulations affecting television broadcasts.
At the same time, the commission granted station W10XL [sic], of the National Broadcasting company, located at Woodridge, permission to increase its power to 400 watts from September 10 to 24. Permission was granted provided no interference is caused with existing service on frequency 2393.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1930
The International Short Wave Club of Klondike, Ohio, has instituted a contest for its members for the purpose of advancing interest in short waves. Prizes ranging from a ten-tube universal wave receiver to an audio transformer have been donated by manufacturers and dealers. The prizes will be awarded for the best reports of the broadcast as received. Station W9XAA of Chicago, working on 49.34 meters, will transmit the special program from 10 P. M. October 4 to 6 A. M. on October 5. (NY Sun, Sept. 6)
NEW YORK, Sep. 6 (AP)—The idea for the ultimate television receiver still is nestling in the brain of some great inventor or experimenter. Although engineers feel that apparatus today gives fair results, it is not the automatic type that will produce the best in pictures by radio.
Despite obstacles to be overcome, they do not hesitate to predict that the problem will be licked some day, but will not forecast when that will be.
Tackling the situation from all angles, scientists in the R. C. A. laboratories at Camden, N. J., have tried practically every known system. The work goes on unabated, the goal sought not yet in sight.
Two basic methods have developed many experiments there. These involve the use of a scanning disk or a scanning drum and a kinescope or special cathode ray tube, a development of Dr. Vladimir Zworykin.
The scanning mechanisms, driven by motors, in effect break up the picture into an assembly of tiny dots and also give the eye the impression of a moving picture although each picture actually consists of thousands of rapidly replaced elements.
Many Schemes Explored.
Scanning disks with small holes have been tried. Other disks had tiny lenses in larger holes. Various types of drums, which resemble short sections of large pipes, also containing holes, or lenses, have been tested. The holes generally are arranged in a spiral, the number determining the detail. Mirrors likewise have been inserted in the drums to give larger pictures.
The kinescope, a cone-shaped tube, developed a picture on a fluorescent screen in the large end, which is flat. It contains what is known as an electron gun, which paints or reproduces a picture tinted green. It requires no mechanical scanner.
Other schemes of illumination have included different sources of light. Various types of neon or glow tubes have been given tests.
Images Full Sized.
One important item has been the Moore crater lamp, which instead of having a glow plate, as in most neon tubes, has a pin-point light source, providing a stronger ray and a larger, brighter picture. The neon picture is pink.
Reproduction of television on a large scale, such as demonstrated last spring at Schenectady by Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson, also has been paid close attention along with the development work on television for the home.
Apparatus has been assembled in various ways, from the engineer's bench setup to completely designed equipment as it might look in the homes in the future. None of it, however, has met all of the rigid tests that the engineers feel it must pass.
Hoping for Early Success.
Handicapped on so many sides, the engineers are working on, believing that within at least five years, and hoping it may be sooner, television may be on a par with the national service of sound radio of the present.
Still they do not hesitate to point out that for the amateur and the experimenter here is a field that offers innumerable opportunities for development. They point out, too, that for the home the receiver with a mechanical scanner, based on Nipkow's discoveries in the 1880s, is convenient for amateur experimenters, just an the crystal detector preceded the radio tube. (C.E. Butterfield)
WITH the completion of the television installation in the studios of the Chicago Daily News, and licensing by the Federal Radio Commission, radio listeners are provided with an entirely new form of entertainment which permits them not only to hear, but to see artists, speakers or entertainers appearing on the program.
Enrichment of sound radio by the addition of sight radio by WMAQ, one of the major pioneer radiocasting stations, will do much to increase the speed with which television is adopted throughout the country generally, engineers and radiocast directors assert it is predicted that within another twelve months many other important stations will have adopted the new art.
To enjoy a “sight and sound” radiocast requires the use of two receivers the customary long wave set for sounds and a short wave receiver for television, the usual loudspeaker and the television equipment. This is not at all as complicated as it sounds, for engineers of Western Television Corporation have been able to arrange the entire apparatus in a compact console not larger than many of the radio-phonograph combinations and smaller than some.
Television experts, taking a page from the experience of the sound radiocaster, apparently realize that the program is the thing: that, unless a wide variety of talent is presented in a smooth running program, free from “hitches” and breaks, the viewer will have just cause for complaint. The talking picture has established a real precedent in this matter and the public, it is being assumed by the Daily News, will be satisfied with nothing that does not provide comparable home entertainment.
Production advantages, at the moment, are all in favor of the movies because film can be cut and patched, and doubles may be used almost at will. In contradistinction television must take the program as it “happens”—while persons are radiocasting over voice transmission facilities. Consequent necessity for personal appearance of artists for appearance as much as for talent strongly intimates new broadcasting standards quite as exacting as the stage.
Heretofore the radiocasting of television pictures of persons has been confined largely to the head and shoulders. At the Daily News station, W9XAP, viewers are able to see full length pictures of several artists at
once.
A double scanner, developed in the Western Television Corporation laboratories allows instant change of scene—a close-up or a long shot, at will, exactly as is done in the films. On a split second the television operator may take in a field not larger than a small drawing or he may expand it to Include a half dozen people. The mechanical simplicity of the apparatus which makes this possible is one of the remarkable features of the installation.
The Chicago Daily News studio was designed and built to provide for the presentation of television-radio plays, for dramatic skits, and for acts in which action and symmetry of motion might delight the eye. A dancing team, Jack Donaghue or the four Marx brothers now become possibilities for radio television entertainment.
By means of the equipment which is installed in W9XAP studio, television technique now becomes nearly as simple as sound.
The announcer says, “Camera!” Lights within the studio are dimmed, and a brilliant linger of light penetrates the “twilight.” It’s the scanning beam, projected through the glass window of the operating room adjoining. There is no television picture without this beam of light. At all times it must cover the person or group which is being radiocast.
Formerly artists were limited in their movements before the television camera. There was no provision for the scanning beam following them about the studio. To turn the entire mechanism was too cumbersome so a tilting mirror arrangement was invented by which the operator turns the light beam and follows the artist to the right or left. Four projection lenses mounted on a turret on each of the two scanners accomplish this.
The scanning disk operates at 900 revolutions per minute synchronous with the 60-cycle lighting circuit, it has 45 tiny holes arranged in three 120-degree spirals so that scanning is accomplished by three offset scans down the field per revolution. The three-plural method of scanning is used exclusively by Western Television Corporation because it practically eliminates flicker, and registers action much better than the single spiral.
Two huge photo-electric cells, 16 inches in diameter, the largest in the world, are suspended from the ceiling of the studio, on a track arrangement, and provide the artist pick-up. For full-length television, the engineers say there is a marked advantage in the use of such cells as opposed to the use of multi-cell bank. The track arrangement permits proper location of the cells for a particular set, and can be compared to the proper placing of lights in a motion picture studio.
The announcer’s pick-up is entirely separate and distinct from that of the artists. Mounted on his table is a ring-bank of eight 6-Inch photo cells. They enable him to be seen by the listener as he makes his announcement. Printed matter may be displayed or any object about which the announcer may be talking.
Each of the three pick-up units in the studio, the ring-bank of eight cells, and the two large super-cell units has a three-tube amplifier as an integral part which builds up the feeble television impulses for transmission to the “mixer” and thence to the main amplifier in the operating room. This amplifier boosts the signal about a million times, sufficiently to modulate W9XAP’S 1000-watt transmitter. (Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 6; a shortened version of this appeared in the Toronto Star, July 14)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
6:30 P. M.—Direct vision hour; gala program of celebrities.
7:30—Radio talkie program.
9:00—Radio movie hour.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 8 (AP)—Television fans, their number small compared to the sound listeners, are getting an opportunity to test television.
Station W2XCR, the 107.1-meter Jenkins television transmitter, is conducting an identification contest in which “lookers” via the air are asked to write in the names of the persons whose images are sent out.
The pictures, from a film, include ten persons, and each picture will last ten minutes. The series is being broadcast several nights a week.
W2CXR, in conjunction with its sound transmitter, W2XCD, 187 meters, is on the air every night except Saturday and Sunday with television programs. The Monday schedule is from 4:30 to 6 p. m. (EST), with the program on the other evenings lasting from 7 to 9 o’clock. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon there ore two-hour programs beginning at 2 o’clock.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
8:00—Television hour; radio talkies.
9:00—Radio movies; "Television Talk," Harold Higginbottom.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8:00—Radio talkie hour.
9:00—Radio movies of prominent persons.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:15 a.m.; 10 to 10:15 a.m.; 1:30 to 2 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
6:30 to 6:45 p.m.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10—(Universal Service)—It was learned today that the Radio Corporation of America is arranging for the erection of a television broadcasting station atop the Amsterdam Theater, in West Forty-second street.
When the apparatus has been installed regular television programs, featuring stars of the stage, screen and radio, will be broadcast from the Times Square studio of the National Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation.
The project will mark the definite entrance of television in the American theater.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
8:00—Television hour; "Television Talk," Roy Stanley; half tone radio talkies.
9:00-Movie hour.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
1:30 to 2 p.m.; 4:30 to 5 p.m.; 7 to 7:45 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
6:30 to 6:45 p.m.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8:00—Television program; Television Club; radio talkies.
9:00—Half tone radio movies.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 1:30 to 2 p.m.; 4:30 to 5 p.m.; 6 to 6:30 p.m.; 7:30 to 7:45 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.
Toronto (NEA)—That Canada may have three television stations within the next six months is an announcement made by one of the largest radio dealers in the Dominion, who has just been given sole right to the sale of television apparatus in Canada.
Engineers from active American television stations are in Canada looking over the situation, and are considering Toronto, Hamilton and Montreal as most likely localities.
More than half a million dollars will be spent in putting up these stations, some of the leading financiers in Canada backing the project. Television receivers were shown at the Canadian National Radio show, for sale at around $300 each. (Evening Courier, Camden, N.J., Sept. 12)
NEW YORK, Sept. 12—Television will bring theatres in homes, according to a prediction of David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. “Progress in the electrical arts inevitably points to millions of ‘little theaters’ added to the constellation of entertainment already made possible by radio, talking pictures and modern photographs,” he says. (Eau Claire Leader, Sept. 13)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m.,12 noon to 12:33 p.m., 12:45 to 1:30, 3 to 4:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago,video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:15 to 2:55 p.m.
The wave length of the Jenkins television station, W2XCR, at Jersey City, has been changed to 107 meters. The former wave was 139 meters. The reason for the change, it was revealed, was due to interference caused with W2XR in New York.
The station has been operating on the lower wave length since June 2, but announcement of the change was not made until last week. Television programs are transmitted by the station every day of the week excepting Sunday. Present programs include half-tone and silhouette pictures, as well as vocal announcements. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Sept. 13)
Television Is Coming to the Movies Parsons Predicts; Producers Reserve Rights
By LOUELLA O. PARSONS
(Universal Service Correspondent)
LOS ANGELES, Sept 13.—TELEVISION is coming as surely to the movies as death and taxes are sure to come to every mortal. How do I know? Simplest thing in the world. Warner Brothers are privately experimenting with a new television invention and the Fox company and United Artists have their television lens ready for the market.
That isn’t the half of it, either. Every motion picture contract for books, plays and original stories of any importance demands the rights to television along with the talkie, color and screen privileges.
Grab Television Rights
At first I scorned the report brought to me that all the big companies were stipulating that the television rights belong in their bill of sale.
“It’s true,” said my informant. “Just inquire from the film companies and find out if their big pictures are not produced with the understanding that the television rights are theirs.”
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer returned our inquiry by admitting that “Within the The Law,” “New Moon,” “Remote Control,” “War Nurse,” “Passion Flower,” “Anna Christie” and “The Great Meadow” are among the many, all bought with the understanding that no other company could have the television rights to them.
Paramount made the same provision when they arranged to produce “Monte Carlo,” “The Playboy of Paris,” “New Morals” and “Follow Thru,” and all other productions.
United Artists has kept the television rights to “The Bat Whispers, “Reaching for the Moon” and “The Dove.” Universal made sure that “The Boudoir Diplomat,” “The Lady Surrenders” and “The Cat Creeps” were kept safe from any television intruders.
Some folk might believe that it is all a matter of form and that television is as remote as the descent of the inhabitants from Mars. But investigations are such that we are sure within another year at least television will be as much a part of motion pictures as dialogue sound and color in the girl revue.
The talkies came upon us without much warning. Lee De Forrest experimented with photofilm and the reviewers in New York who went to his studio ridiculed him. He is now in Hollywood and he quotes some of the erudite ones who wrote volumes against the possibility of talkies ever invading the sacred precincts of the silent realm. A grand sense of humor has De Forrest, who has gone on through the years, confident that he had the magic secret of successful talkies in his grasp.
Equipment Expensive
Warner Brothers whose invention of the talkies ta entirely different from the De Forrest invention, started with a series of famous folk in short sketches and they weren’t given much encouragement. Then came whole plays and the doubting Thomases became convinced that the talkies had future that nothing could down.
What happened is too recent to merit any comment, Just how the talkies came, were seen, conquered and became a part of our modern inventions is so much a matter of film history we no longer doubt them any more than we doubt aviation.
Television, then, is an expected event. So far, experiments have been only fair, it remains for some one to come forth with a television that is perfected. Perhaps George K. Spoor has something that we can accept according to those who saw it recently. It is certainly promising.
The only thing that may hold television back is the expense of new equipment for the theaters. So many exhibitors have spent more than they could really afford furnishing their theaters with sound projection machines that it would come as a blow to have to invest more capital for television. This and this alone might postpone it.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8:00—Synchronised television hour; half-tone talkies.
9:00—Movies.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:15 to 2:55 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
8:00— Television hour: radio talkies; "Television Talk," Harold Higginbottom.
9:00—Radio movies.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
6:30 p.m.—Studio artists and television program.
Provision for television will be contained in plans being made by a syndicate represented by Joseph P. Walsh, 6527 Stewart ave. [Chicago], to erect a new six-story and basement apartment, store and office building costing approximately $750,000 at the southeast corner of 71st st. and Jeffrey ave. [...]
Built-in radios supplementing special television sets will be installed in each syite, according to Mr. Walsh. (Selwyn Huffstetter, Southtown Economist, Sept. 16)
After months of research and engineering development on radio television technique, the DeForest Radio Company is about ready to go on the air with experimental television programs. A construction permit for a five kilowatt radiovision transmitter has been granted by the American Federal Radio Commission, to be installed in the DeForest engineering laboratory at Passaic, N.J. The call letters will be W2XOD [W2XCD], the same as those of the experimental radio telephone transmitter which has been on the air for many months, transmitting test programs alone and in conjunction with the radiovision pictures from the Jenkins station, W2XCR, at Jersey City.
At first the standard forty-eight line pictures will be transmitted by W2XCD, due to numerous refinements in the pickup, amplifier and transmitting equipment. (Toronto Star Weekly, Sept. 16)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8:00—Synchronized television hour, Jenkins radio talkies.
9:00—Half-tone radio movies of prominent persons.
W9XAO, W9XAP unavailable.
Berlin, September 17 (UP)—Failure of the first attempt to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Germany was reported tonight after three days of experimenting.
The inventor of the German type of apparatus, Professor Carolus, was understood to have proposed to the Radio Corporation of America and General Electric Corporation that they undertake the transatlantic experiment with the German Government-owned Transradio Company. A cable was received Saturday announcing the experiment would be undertaken, staring September 15.
Officials were convinced the organization for the test was inadequate because of maladjustment between the General Electric apparatus and the German Telefunken apparatus. Monday night the short wave receiving station at Belitz, 20 miles from Berlin, tuned in for television reception and observed faint signals that could not be distinguished clearly.
The experiment was repeated Tuesday and again tonight, but without satisfactory results. It was understood the Schenectady station was attempting to send simple pictures, such as squares and triangles.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
8:00—Synchronized television features; radio talkies.
9:00—Television talk; movies.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 to 12:33 p.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30; 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
Does Television Fight Broadcast Violate Law?
A television broadcast of a one-minute bout between Tuffy Griffith and Stanley Harris broadcast over WMAQ, the Chicago Dally News radio station, has brought up the subject of transporting fight pictures from one state to another.
The fight by television was received in Cincinnati, according to W. S. Edgeman of that city, and no doubt was seen in other states. A federal statute prohibits the interstate transportation of motion pictures of a bout coming under this ruling.
The broadcast from WMAQ was television’s first real bid as an entertainment feature. (Osceola Record, Sept. 18)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8:00—Television hour; Television Club; talkies.
9:00—Half-tone movie of prominent persons.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 to 12:33 p.m.; 1:30 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30 p.m.; 6 to 6:30 p.m.; 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
Chicago, Sept. 19—A television receiving set has been put on exhibition at Carson Pirie Scott & Co., wholesale, receiving broadcasts from a number of local radio stations which are now broadcasting pictures as well as sound. (Women’s Wear Daily, Sept. 19)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.; 1:30 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.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1930
Total elimination of mechanical scanning in television transmission and reception, with consequent removal of all limits as to the size of picture which can be secured, is claimed for a new method of television invented by Lieutenant George Weld, of the United States Quartermaster Corps, stationed at Selfridge Field, Mich., for which a patent has recently been issued.
The new method, it is claimed, also carried sound in perfect synchronism, thus, if successful, bridging the gap which has heretofore been a major problem in television research—that of providing a synchronized broadcast of sound and picture.
The image is scanned electrically, and by a slight change in construction of the special tube which forms an essential part of the equipment, it is claimed that any television image sent out by any station may be received.
Sound is transmitted with the image by using a part of each image line as a sound carrier. At the transmitting station the sound current is converted into light and applied, at the end of each image line, to the same photo-electric cell that transmits the image. At the receiver, that part at the end of each line which carried sound. Is again reverted to current and the image and voice are reproduced through the same carrier channels. (Herald Tribune, Sept. 21)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8:00—Talkie; half tone talkies.
9:00— Movie hour; half tone and silhouette films.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
Radio Pictures, Inc., an experimental television station located in Long Island City, broadcasts motion pictures and half-tone films daily, except Sundavs and holidays, from 4:30 to 6:30 P. M. and from 7:30 to 10 P. M. The transmitter is synchronised with public lighting service in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Westchester (as far north as Peekskill), Queens and Nassau counties. The usual 48 lines 15 frames per second at 900 r. p. m. are employed. (NY Sun, Sept. 20)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
8:00—Synchronized television; direct vision features; talkies.
9:00—Half tone movies of prominent persons.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30 p.m.; 6:30 to 6:45 p.m.—Studio artists and television; 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:15 to 2:55 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
Chicago, Sept. 23. Television has gotten started in Chi and is accepted as regular daily entertainment by the public. The dailies have sensed the public feeling and are running regular Television columns, stating daily the exact broadcast schedule.
Chicago now has two stations broadcasting Television concerts daily, with replies from those tuning in increasing in jumps daily. Two stations are W9XAO (WIBO), Hearst’s Evening American, and the Daily News, W9XAP (WMAQ).
Starting out with only half-hour broadcasts in the afternoon, both of these stations have received such a flood of requests that they are spreading out and devoting the extremely valuable evening time to the see and hear entertainment.
Following is a typical television schedule.
W9XAO (146m.) WIBO (535m.)
7:30 P. M.—Studio program.
8 P. M.—Cartoons.
8:30 P. M.—Variety program and cartoons.
Next Day
9 to 9:30 A. M.—Reading room.
10 to 10:30 A. M.—Children’s program.
12:45 to 2 P. M.—Studio program.
3 to 6 P. M.—Orchestra.
W9XAP (109m.) WMAQ (448m.)
6:30 to 6:45 P. M.—Sports summary.
6:45 to 7 P. M.—Novelty program.
9 to 9:30 P. M.—Variety program.
Next Day
11:30 to 12.—Woman’s calendar.
12:30 to 12:45 P. M.—Studio program.
2:30 to 3 P. M.—Variety program. (Variety, Sept. 24)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8 00—Talkie hour; half tone talkies.
9:00—Movie 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5 p.m.; 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
8:00—Television; talkies; direct vision features.
9:00—Movie hour; half tone films; direct vision subjects.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30 p.m.; 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1930
W2XCR (Jenkins Television), Jersey City (Sight, 107 meters or 2800 kcs.; sound, 187 meters or 1604 kcs. from W2XCD)
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Jenkins Radio Movies.
8:00—Radiovision hour; television club; talkies; direct vision.
9:00—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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:30 p.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.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO, W9XAP, schedules not available.
Organized labor, through labor’s only broadcast station, WCFL, Chicago, is offering a course in the theory of radio transmission and practical instruction on radio construction. This course is a goodwill project and is offered absolutely free. One lesson on trouble-shooting and servicing tells how to locate and remedy faults in radio receivers. Short-wave reception and television are treated in later lessons.
A card addressed to station WCFL, 623 South Wabash avenue, Chicago, will bring you the first lesson. The entire course is furnished free. (Spokane Press, Sept. 27)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1930
NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (AP)—Television already has sought the aid of Hollywood.
It’s not technical help, but the deft hand of the makeup artist.
Out at Chicago where WMAQ, with its short wave transmitter W9XAP is experimenting with regular broadcasts of television programs. It has been found that fixing up the artists to go before the eye of the radio camera is requiring s new technique.
So Davis Factor, famous makeup expert, upon whom the movie stars depend when their face has to be particularly treated, made a special trip to Chicago to study the needs of television. Now he’s working out some formula to be given a tryout at W9XAP.
Some of the different stunts in makeup already learned for the television studio include the discarding of the red lipstick for green and the banning of face powder. Outside of a special grease paint that will reflect light, about the only other application is a little mascara to the eye lashes. (C.E. Butterfield column)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR, W2XR, not available.
The first television demonstration in the northwest was completed last night [29] when Governor Theodore Christianson stood before a small metal transmitting disc and had his picture taken. The accomplishment was a feature of last night’s program of the ninth annual Northwest Radio and Electric Show at the Municipal Auditorium [in Minneapolis].
Officials of the show make no claim that the demonstration was perfect, but 5,000 persons stood about in amazement as television pictures flashed across hundreds of feet of wire to be viewed on a receiving disc in another room.
After Governor Christianson had viewed his picture, Florence Klingensmith, stunt aviatrix; R. B. Sheffield, president of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association, and H. H. Cory, manager of the show, were televised. [...]
Yesterday’s program will be repeated today and every day of the show. Four television demonstrations will be given daily. (Minneapolis Journal, Sept. 30)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m.; 10 to 10:30 a.m.; 12 noon to 12:33 p.m.; 12:45 to 2 p.m.; 3 to 5:30 p.m.; 6:30 p.m.—Studio artists and television; 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 to 12 noon; 12:33 to 12:45 p.m.; 2:30 to 3 p.m.; 6:30 to 7 p.m.; 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR, W2XR, not available.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930
no station schedules available.
A BRIEF announcement in the radio index sent to this newspaper this week by The Associated Press marks another in the history of television. Although it does not mean much to Birmingham listeners at present, it heralds the rapid approach of science's latest marvel—the talking picture in the home.
The note is captioned “Television programs added to daily list," and reads:
"The daily schedules of two Chicago experimental television broadcast stations, W9XAP and W9XAO, will become a regular part of the program listings with this week’s page.
"These two television stations, which transmit vision in connection with a number of sound programs of WMAQ and WIBO, have progressed sufficiently far in their experimental work to warrant recognition. They have arranged definite schedules which, while subject to change, in time will go on daily, except Sundays, at stated periods.
"(Signed)
“THE ASSOCIATED PRESS."
This announcement, while probably not meant for publication, is one of the most significant announcements regarding television that has come to the desk of the radio editor in the last two years. True, there has been much chatter about radio vision and endless pages of copy about the possibilities and prospects of television, but this announcement marks the first recognition of the new art in the Central States. Note this phrase in the A. P. announcement: "Have progressed sufficiently far in their experimental work to warrant recognition."
Anyone who is familiar with the conservative policies of The Associated Press knows they will not "recognize” any new enterprise until it really warrants it.
Old timers will recall the fight made before the A. P. would recognize radio and furnish members with radio program listings.
Recently this column carried information about the regular television, or radiovision, programs put out regularly by two New Jersey stations, but with WMAQ and WIBO putting on these programs it is possible they could he received In Birmingham if the receiving sets were equipped for vision.
If there are any television-equipped receiving sets in Birmingham, the attention of the radio editor has not been called to them. If you know of any such set, the information would be appreciated.
Television is creeping slowly upon us and in the not-too-distant future we will be looking into the black faces of Henry and Percy as they broadcast over WAPI or watching Uncle Remus adjust his whiskers and pipe as he tells the children about Brer Rabbit.
For the time being television schedules will not be published in The News-Age-Herald but it is hoped it won be long before these schedules will become as necessary as the regular radio programs. (Andrew W. Smith column, Birmingham News, Oct. 1)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12 noon to 12:33 p.m., 12:45 to 2 p.m., 3 to 5:30 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR, W2XR, not available.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930
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., 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR, W2XR, not available.
The International Short Wave Club of Klondike, Ohio, has instituted a contest for its members for the purpose of advancing interest in short waves. Prizes ranging from a ten-tube universal wave receiver to an audio transformer have been donated by manufacturers and dealers. The prizes will be awarded for the best reports of the broadcast as received. Station W9XAA of Chicago, working on 49.34 meters, will transmit the special program from 10 P. M. October 4 to 6 A. M. on October 5. (NY Sun, Sept. 6)
Washington, Oct. 3 (I.N.S.)—The Columbia Broadcasting System took steps to get into the television field today when it applied to the Federal Radio Commission for permission to use a channel of 2778 kilocycles on an experimental basis.
M. A. Trainor, consulting engineer and television expert at Station WGY and for RCA Victor, and Harry Butcher, Washington manager for the Atlantic Broadcasting Company, operator of the Columbia system, appeared at a hearing.
The Columbia planned to use RCA Victor equipment and the indirect scanning system, in which the subject to be transmitted is placed in a dark room and flooded by a spotlight. In this undertaking the company is affiliated with Paramount-Publix, which will furnish the material to be transmitted.
Butcher said that the Columbia chain hoped to stimulate interest in television. Trainor explained that television had been held back by transmission difficulties.
Representing the commission, G. C. Gross, television expert, said that licenses had been granted to 27 organizations for this purpose on four wave bands. He expressed the tear that additional licenses would cause interference and suggested that the experiments be conducted in the National broadcasting studios.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12 noon to 12:33 p.m., 12:45 to 1:30, 1:30 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.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XR, not available.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4. (AP)—In this modern day of the beginnings of television the face of a watch can be seen for 50 miles.
It’s the up to date way of transmitting the correct time.
The actual watch is not seen so far away. The light it reflects into photoelectric cell of a television camera is transmitted as electric current and is built up as a moving picture of the watch in the receiver. The correct hour and minute are easily discernable.
With television time signals there is no waiting for an announcer to strike a gong at the exact second while the set is temporarily silent. The instant that the time signal, if it can be called that, in television, is to be sent out of the face of the watch appears in the receiver, so that it can be matched exactly with one’s own timepiece.
A method like this has been adopted at W9XAO, the short wave television station operated in conjunction with WIBO, Chicago. To add zeal to the transmission a good looking young woman walks before the televisor with a watch, held in her hand so that its dial faces the electric eyes.
There she stands until she feels certain that all have an opportunity to get the correct time.
Checkups made of some of the time signal pictures have shown that the face of the watch can be picked up in the receivers as far away as 55 miles.
In making the transmission there was no sound accompaniment, the appearance of the watch being proceded merely by an announcement card before the televisor.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Synchronized television hour; half-tone radio talkies; direct vision subjects.
9:00—Half-tone radio movies; direct vision subjects.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12:33 to 12:45 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.
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.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Television program: radio talkies; direct vision features.
9:00—Radio movie hour.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Novelty; W9XAO-WIBO—6:30, Variety (sound); 7, Novelty; 8, Studio; 8:30, Tele-Cartoons.]
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (AP)—Television, continuing its drive for recognition, is getting into the news columns pretty regularly nowadays.
Both New York and Chicago joined in the latest moves in the demonstration looking toward the introduction of vision via radio.
In Chicago WMAQ started up its companion short wave television transmitter through which it plans to present a regular schedule of sight broadcasts of some of its sound programs.
In New York there was another display of the Jenkins pictures, with signals being sent to Broadway from W2XCR, Jersey City, N. J. This demonstration was similar to that of last spring, when during a week’s tests, television signals were sent out to the same station from a television theater, with sound going from W2XCD, Passaic, N.J.
Both direct pickup of images and moving picture films were put on.
The test transmission seemed to be somewhat better than the other.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Synchronized radiovision features.
9:00—Half-tone 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m.—W9XAP, 6:30 to 7 p.m., 7:30 to 9 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00— Talkie hour.
9:00— Radio movie hour.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Novelty; W9XAO-WIBO—7, Studio (sound); 7:45, Tele-Cartoons; 9 to 9:30, Variety.]
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Synchronized television program: Television Club.
9:00—Half-tone radio features.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Novelty; W9XAO-WIBO—6, Studio (sound); 7, Variety; 7:30, Studio (sound); 7:45, Tele-Cartoons.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12 noon to 12:33 p.m., 12:45 to 1:30, 3 to 5:30 p.m., 7:30 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Radio talkie hour: half-tone radio talkie.
9:00—Radio movies; direct vision features.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Variety; W9XAO-WIBO—7 p.m. Studio (sound); 7:45, Cartoons by Television; 9 to 9:30, Variety.]
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Television hour: television talk; talkies.
9:00—Movie 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12 noon to 12:33 p.m., 12:45 to 2 p.m., 3 to 5:30 p.m., 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8 00—Radio talkies; half-tone radio talkies.
9:00—Movie features.
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
It was learned today the recent application by the chain to the Federal Radio commission for a short wave experimental license to operate a television transmitter had back of it a determination to ascertain from a practical standpoint just how soon the art of radio might be incorporated with sound broadcasting on a possible network.
While no CBS official would comment. It was understood the plans for television work probably will include the installation of the short wave transmitter in the building where the chaìn’s sound studios are located, with the antenna atop the 22-story building.
ENGINEERS TO AID
The plans also are said to embrace the setting up of the latest type apparatus, with leading television engineers cooperating. A special staff of CBS technical men is to be recruited for the work, which also is to involve reception tests in all parts of the metropolitan area.
In addition to the technical end, the studio part of sight broadcasting is to be gone into thoroughly in a special studio where artists can go before the television camera and learn the technique to be used in television acting and makeup.
Just when the CBS picture transmitter will be on the air depends upon the granting of a license by the Radio Commission. However the equipment is practically ready and preliminary tests will begin as quickly as possible.
It is expected a regular schedule of pictures will be arranged and that it no doubt win include views of some of the regular C.B.S sustaining programs.
ONLY IN NEW YORK
During the early part of the tests it is believed that the transmission will be confined to the New York territory as the wire system used to rebroadcast sound to the various units of the network has not yet been developed so that it will permit the carrying of the wide signal or frequency band required for adequate picture sending.
Later it is hoped, as the development progresses, to be able to distribute television programs throughout the country just as is sound today.
Television development work similar to that planned by C.B.S. already is under way in the Times Square studios in New York by the National Broadcasting Company. These studios resemble a theater, with a stage and 660 seats.
There, in co-operation with RCA, engineers, transmissions are being made on a fairly regular basis.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Television talk; radio talkies.
9:00—Radio movies; 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
11 to 11:15 a.m.—With WIBO Children’s Program. 11:45 to 12 noon, 4:30 to 5 p.m., 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.—With WIBO sound bill.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:30 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:45 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930
W2XCR, Jersey City, 107 meters (sound on W2XCD, Passaic, 187 meters)
8:00—Television Club; half-tone talkies.
9:00—Movie 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, 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., 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1930
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9:30 to 10, Novelty; W9XAO-WIBO—7:30, Studio (sound); 8, Television by Cartoons; 8:20 to 8:50, Variety.]
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
3 to 5:30, 7:30 to 9.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
2:30 to 3, 6:30 to 7, 9 to 9:30.
W2XCR not available.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 12:33 p.m., 12:45 to 2, 3 to 5:30, 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR not available.
CELEBRITIES of stage, concert hall, journalism and public life are now being seen and heard over the air, as the climax to regular radiovision or radio television broadcasting. Next Tuesday evening [21], Ed Carter, founder of the Just Kids Club, Violinist Hoffman and others will presented to lookers-in as well as listeners-in, while news bulletins of the day will be given by the editorial staff of the New York Evening Journal, who are co-operating in the feature radiovision programs.
Two complete radio stations are employed for the feature program. The sound signals are sent from the studio by direct wire to the DeForest experimental broadcast transmitter, W2XCD at Passaic, for transmission on 187 meters. The signals may be tuned in at the lower end of the dial of the usual broadcast receiver. Meanwhile, the sight signals or pictures are transmitted from the Jenkins radiovision station W2XCR, at Jersey City, on 107.1 meters. At the home end, a shortwave receiver with radiovisor, together with a standard broadcast receiver, serves to tune in the sight and sound component for the complete presentation.
The feature radiovision programs are to be presented each Monday evenings, from 6:30 until 8, E.D.S/T., for the next few weeks, in addition to the regular Jenkins program each evening from 8 to 10 p.m., except Saturday and Sunday, and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 3 to 5 p.m. (Toronto Star Weekly)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1930
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Variety; W9XAO-WIBO—7:30, Studio (sound); 8, Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9, Variety.]
W2XCR not available.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 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, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
11 to 11:15 a.m.—With WIBO, Children’s Program, 11:45 to 12 noon, 4:30 to 5 p.m., 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.—With WIBO sound bill.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:30 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:45 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR not available.
Success followed several attempts to give a practical demonstration of television at the Radio Show now being staged at the Royal York Hotel, and last night [23] the hundreds of guests were shown the pictures of those taking part in a program which was being broadcast from Station W3XK, at Washington, D.C.
For nearly two hours the results came in plainly, being reflected in an orange hue against a black background, according to E. C. Thompson, who is representing the American Radio Relay Company [sic] at the show. In some cases, while the head and shoulders were being reproduced, the figures of those taking part in a dance were plainly visible as they moved on the ballroom floor. (Toronto Globe, Oct. 24)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 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, 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., 12 noon to 12:33, 1:30 to 2, 3 to 5:30, 6 to 6:30.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR not available.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1930
W2XR, Long Island City, 139 meters.
4:30 to 6:30, 7:30 to 10—Motion Pictures and half-tone films.
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9:30 to 10, Novelty; W9XAO-WIBO—7:30 p.m. Studio (sound); 8:00, Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9, Variety.]
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1930
PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 26. (AP)—The “pink eye” has been removed from the television receiver. Statements and demonstrations to this effect have been made by the engineers of the DeForest Radio Company recently
Development of a television tube which will reproduce pictures in black and white instead of the pink and black of the neon globe lamp is announced by De Forest.
The designers said that a different type of gas produced the different colors in the pictures. They also said that the white and black gave better detail due to the greater contrast between shadows and highlights.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Variety; W9XAO-WIBO—7 p.m. Studio (sound); 7:45, Cartoons by Television; 9 to 9:30, Variety.]
W2XCR, W2XR schedules not available.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
9 to 9:30 a.m., 10 to 10:30 a.m., 12 noon to 12:33 p.m., 12:45 to 2 p.m., 3 to 5:30 p.m., 7 to 9 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR, W2XR schedules not available.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930
[AP: W9XAP-WMAQ—6:30, Sports (sound); 6:45 to 7, Novelty; 9 to 9:30, Variety; W9XAO-WIBO—7:30, Studio (sound); 8, Cartoons by Television; 8:30 to 9, Variety.]
W2XCR, W2XR schedules not available.
Antonio and Renee De Marco, the ballroom dancers in "Girl Crazy" at the Alvin Theater and also at the Central Park Casino will dance for the television audience next Wednesday night [29] at a dinner for the National Broadcasting executives to be broadcast from that company's Fifth avenue headquarters. This will be the first time a ballroom team will have been broadcast by television. For the occasion the De Marcos have arranged a program of music, and dance specially suited to the limitations of the television apparatus. (NY Sun, Oct. 23)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1930
W9XAO (WIBO), Chicago, video on 147 meters, audio on 560 kcs.
11 to 11:15 a.m., 11:45 to 12 noon, 3:05 to 4:30 p.m., 4:30 to 5 p.m., 7:15 to 7:45 p.m.
W9XAP (WMAQ), Chicago, video on 107 meters, audio on 670 kcs.
12:15 to 1 p.m., 6 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR, W2XR schedules not available.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930
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., 12 noon to 12:33 p.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.
11:33 a.m. to 12 noon, 12:33 to 12:45 p.m., 2:30 to 3 p.m., 6:30 to 7 p.m., 9 to 9:30 p.m.
W2XCR, W2XR schedules not available.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31. (AP)—Problem of television transmission, and there are many of them, are being tackled in earnest by the National Broadcasting Company.
It was learned today that tests now under way in the heart of the Broadway theatrical district are dealing solely with attempts to learn just what is to be expected in sight sending.
For this purpose, the NBC Times Square Theatres studio is being used as a laboratory, where television equipment has been set up. In addition to providing adequate space for the apparatus, which includes the short wave transmitters W2XBS and its antenna on the roof of the eight-story building, there is ample provision to permit studio development work when that stage is reached.
The tests are entirely experimental, and do not touch on the designing of the apparatus itself. That is being taken care of in the RCA-Victor laboratories at Camden, N. J.
The primary purpose of the experiments, NBC engineers point out, is to determine through listening, or rather “looking,” posts, which have been installed throughout the metropolitan area, just what happens to the picture signals when they are put into the air.
Among other things, the tests show the effect that steel buildings, some of which actually cause phantom pictures, have on the transmissions. Such experiments are valuable in connection with sound transmission, as the engineers are enabled to obtain an “eye” demonstration of the peculiar reactions that have been noted some times in broadcasting.
The engineers are paying particular attention to the transmission characteristics of radio waves in congested areas like New York City.
Wave lengths suitable for television are also being tried. Often some change is made in the transmitting equipment just to see what happens, because no effort is being made to deliver pictures that might be considered satisfactory to anyone tuning in.
The frequency being used W2XBS at present is the 100-kilocycle band between 2100 and 2200 kilocycles. An irregular sending schedule is followed in the matter of daily transmissions, except that when the station is on the air the hours are from 2 to 5 and from 7 to 10 P. M. (E.S.T.). Sixty-line pictures, with 20 per minute, are sent out. (C.E. Butterfield column)
There wasn’t an awful lot to see when W3XK got a new, improved transmitter in July 1929. More people could view the programming, but consisted mainly of silhouette drawings. No live bodies on camera.
TO TEST TELEVISION OUTSIDE OF CITIES
A thorough study of the possibility of reliable television service for large suburban and rural areas will be made at Bound Brook, N. J., if the Federal Radio Commission grants an application now before it for a 30-kilowatt image transmitter, according to Dr. A. N. Goldsmith, chief broadcasting engineer of the Radio Corporation of America, who will direct the tests. The wave length proposed is 101 to 105 meters, or 2,950-2,850 kilocycles. It is expected that a comparatively short time will be required to prepare for the tests.
The opening program of the new station was a one-hour motion picture which Jenkins prefaced with a brief talk. Later he will broadcast scenes enacted by living images, but the room from which this is to be done is not yet completely equipped.
“With out [our] latest development, we have evolved a remarkably simple, inexpensive, and highly practical televisor, which can be readily manufactured at a reasonable cost. The new Jenkins televisor will permit of receiving either plain black and-pink radio movies or full half tone pictures, with good detail and illumination within the limitations of our present 48-line system. Should we find it advisable to go to 60 or more lines, based on our present experiments and developments, the Jenkins televisors can be readily changed over to accommodate additional lines and finer detail.
