Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 24

WLOS Begins Television Broadcasting After Extensive Preparations Climaxing more than a year of.90-mile radius organization and a half-million dol- some locations nt oAnctniHinn rnctjt. tplevi-lto 120 miles. and reception at; Following a public hearing Fcb.television cameras, and a third Is sic: an afternoon local show for'ager of station operations. CharlcsiGreenc, Tom Knight, Jack Stam-lHonsley, film editor: Pat Patter, is anticipated up 2, a ruling confirming earlier per-jexpected to be added shortly. Umall children- and a late-after.

E. Newcombe is production man-lberger. Jim Mills and Hal son, film assistant; Bill Murray l3teafter- SSHKS 5WSm Vro Hosier and Jdio Bill floor (ion broadcasting in the standard Network programs are received handed down by the U. S. Forest three to four hours of live, show- whose lands supervisor.

Bradley H. Roberts islior Adkins are TV camerameiijgineers; Watkins, man. sales manager. and John Bauer Jr. and Bryan ager; Ed Vaughn, photographerj ly originated studio shows Mnn.

The station will be on the air very high frequency band came hy micro-wave relay at the South-(Service, on the trans-to the mountain region when Sta- ern Bell Telephone Co. relay tow- mission facility is located, tion WLOS-TV went on the air'er on the phone company's O.I ln the, Macon Ave. studio, whose day through Friday. from noon to 11 or 12 p. with! Producers are Gabe Stahle.

A r-Bees are junior cameramen. Und Jane Steele, continuity Scheduled for early broadcast Broadcast service in the forenoon thr B. Waller and Howard Zuck- Other TV personnel are Gen. J. The station's AM and FM radio Street building and carried remodeling and equipment costlare a morning homcmakers' pro-iexpected shortly.

erman. E. fcumonas, newscaster; flidr-iuruoutaauins oiumira aisu TV announcers are Carl W.lgaret Hall, traffic manager; in me macon Ave, nuiiqing. here yesterday shortly alter noon. Operated by the Skyway Broadcasting the new station will by coaxial cable to the studios, winmuuamy vw.uw, iour areas gram, including interviews with Charles B.

Britt, executive vice From the studios, both used llve TV studios, local people; a noon "country president of the Skyway Broad- broadcast both American Broad' signals and live local nrngramsi u.iuuia iwu ature witn siring-Dand mu-'casting will Be general ma casting and Dumont network are sent to the Mt. Pisgah anten- First District Dental Society To Open Meet Tho Pirct ni.irirt npntal MrFall of Asheville will p.m. meeting tomorrow. shows and live programs original- na Dy a second micro-wave relay, i ing in the station studios in the Constructed at a cost of some; remodeled Battle mansion on Ma- $300,000, the mountain-top trans-' con Avenue, installation includes a. cietv will hold its 33rd annual! duce new members.

Dr. S. H. Isenhower of Newton The transmitting tower is locat-four-story transmission building session in the George Vanderbilt Officers will be installed at a lis president-elect. Hotel todav and tomorrow.

The program includes election of officers and a series of techni cal lectures. ed on Mt. Pisgah, 16 airline miles with living quarters lor a family southwest of Asheville. The tower of four. is 300 feet high, with an additional! Don Hunnicutt is transmission 42 feet for the antenna, and broad- supervisor and Harvey Nations is cast power is 169,840 watts.

The'transmission engineer. Maj. T. A. tower is the highest TV installa-Coxe Jr.

was civil engineer in tion in the Southeast. charge of construction, which en- Station engineers said yesterday, titled building of a two-mile cable they expect to achieve grade railway to haul material and transmission with a clear signal equipment up the mountain. The convention will open today with a morning golf tournament scheduled as the delegates are arriving. A buffet supper is set for 6 p.m. and the first general session of the convention is scheduled over an approximately 60-mile ra- Location of the transmission on dius, from Robbinsville to Shelby famed Mt.

Pisgah set off a heated on an east-west axis and from controversy early this year, with for 8 p.m. Dr. Pearce Roberts of Asheville, Johnson City. to many local residents attacking the president of the district group, will preside. Officers are sched- S.

on a norui-soutn line. move as a aciacemcni oi me A grade coverage, with mountain landscape and others de- sir ii clear signals available in favor-' fending it as the best available uled to be elected at the first business meeting. The remainder of the program will include films able locations, is expected in a location. on various phases o( dental 12 ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, ASHEVILLE, N. C.

Sunday, September 19, 1954 The opening session at 9 a.m. to morrow will be featured by the annual report of the president, made by Dr. Roberts. Speakers who are expected to I -Sww IK be heard tomorrow include: Dr. Irwin Hyatt of Atlanta, Dr.

J. Sherard of Atlanta, Dr. Clinton BURNSVILLE'S Headquarters for Diercks of Morganton, Dr. W. J.

McDaniel of Rutherfordton, Dr. L. Hampton Short of Charlotte, Dr. Hubert Plaster and Dr. Edwin Dr.

Irwin L. Hyatt Dr. J. H. Sherard THE FIRST DISTRICT Dental Society, meeting today in the George Vanderbilt Hotel, will have an elaborate program dealing with problems arising in the practice of dentistry.

Two of the leaders will be Dr. Irwin L. Hyatt and Dr. J. H.

Sherard, both of Atlanta, Ga. Plaster of Shelby, and Dr. Dwight L. Clark of Asheville. Dr.

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