The Post-Standard from Syracuse, New York • Page 35

Television Growth Just Beginning, FCC Chairman Says Infant Industry Booms From 10,000 Sets After War Two to 4,000,000 BY MARTIN S. HAYDEN WASHINGTON. (NANA) The labulous growth of television has just begun, in the opinion of the government official chiefly charged with supervision of the sprouting industry. Wayne Coy, chairman of the federal communications com- mission, reviewed in an. interview here TV's strides to date and opened his personal crystal ball for predictions of things to come in the television-radio famiJy.

4,000,000 Receivers Thumbing back over a story that With TV you have to stop and look, had its big beginning only sinceiin order to listen. With radio you, world war 2, Coy noted sta- can listen and work too. tistical achievements: I "My theory is that radio can! From an estimated 10,000 partly combat the drain of-its Hs- vision sets in existence on VJ-day, by better programming. Cer- the nation now has and is programs, specifically news more than 4,000,000 receivers; and anisic, are as good or better on The handful of experimental TV radio than OB television. Also, there stations of 1B47 has swollen to 93 are certain areas where television development must inevitably be slow.

full-fledged TV transmitters In 57 communities, a total that -will in- 108 -when establishments RADIO ROLE TO CONnNUE now under construction are com- best guess is that, altho TV pleted; become the major vehicle, infant industry has radio will serve a long and contin- pnmarily in specific metropolitan function. areas, to the point where 25 000.000 1 Has television presented the FCC of the nations 37.230.000 families rWjUl an regulatory problems not. wilt by midyear, be within the en wlth rad ceplion range of a gomg TV sta- on and i Within 'the geographic areas now I. served by television one out of but maybe soon," was. THE POST-STANDARD Sunday, March 5, '1950 First Video Studio Run by University Set to Open at SI) Electricians, technicians and peniers in Syracuse university's radio -workshop and linemen and cable layers outside soon wHI have in commission the first television, the action ol the human eye, a -studio owned and operated by difficult mechanical task, as university, ne Iound out Nonetheless, his idea i Thru the co-operation ol WSYR-1 was i ev er.

iTV. talented campus students will, imitating the human eye. Carey i Ibe seen on video screens thruouth a lens serve as a retina. This! Video System 1875 Invention Of Bostonian 3 Photos of Video New, Lens Hobby Camera fans have found new hobby with the advent of tele vision vision system far back, 1875! His mechanism was an imitation a lens ot least KS. shutter speed no faster than J-25th ot a second, onhochromatic or panchromatic film.

The camera should be on a tripod, and should have a ground screen. The latter is proper methqd of taking such pic- tuces are: not necessary so long the camera can be focused. i Central New York from their own studios by way ol the commercial i station's transmitter. The agree- retina was no more than a mosaic of photo-eJectric selenium cells. He connected erch cell by between the university and, separate wire to an electric WSYR was announced Jan, 29.

jand the result was a bank of lights. Reconversion of studio A in the main library on campus is being completed for telecasting. Audio equipment in tbe workshop, previously used for AM and FM pro- I grams from, the university, will be tised for TV, In the meantime, some of the new video equipment already Each light occupied a positic-t cor- I responding to its cell in the mosaic. When light fell on the mosaic, some at the cells reacted -to it and these in turn lit the corresponding trie lights. Cells untouched by light did not react and their electric lights remained dark.

has been received. "The lifhts which lit reproduced COAXIAL CABLE i the shape ot the original design! Most ol the equipment will be in Th drawback of this system was Syracuse's radio-television center by that ve ry little detail could be sent I March 6. All apparatus win arrive 1A detailed picture required at least i iby March 15 contingent to settle- cells, wires and lamps. 1 ment of the coal strike. Lights, cam- lde wa he nswer eras and cable are arriving by truck television but it has found prac- Video connections between use in the electric news REHEARSING MUST GO ON--Jack Meeks, staff member ttjl VCflp DY ttfltf V-Lb OJ1C PJ- uJ i w- i jm i jjj v- fvery lour families has a television! inornate home visitor thanj Syracuse university's WAER-FM radio station, rehearses for a show, set rad 10 eve was A jead ve ignoring the havoc of reconversion of the studio for television.

seeing evidence of growing parent, RECORD GBOWTH icuncern over the type ot program! "I do not suppose." Coy produced in some "that there has ever been so. Coy recalled a recent letter from startling and unpredictable a growth a Southern California group which in sny new industry an so short a a systematically monitored Los 'Angeles stations for a week. They Running thru a leconer's a specific list of programs list, the FCC chairman picked up which included 91 murders, seven, the question as to -shether TV wilt staae holdups, three kidnapings. 10 continue its beanstalk soaring. thefts, four burglaries, two cases "I see nothing at all to indicate! arstD 0 a breaks, two that it will not" Coy replied.

I several portrayals of dishonest! The generally accepted prediction judges and juries "and more cases; is that the 4,000,000 receivers of assault and battery than could' today will become 8.000.000 by the'jje tabulated." end of 1950. That would certainly BROADCASTER PROBLEM seem to bear out the industry's pre- '-Right 1 the FCC chairman diction of 18,000.000 TV sets in an- sa that whole situations in the other four years." hands of the broadcasters. If they Coy noted as "particularly sig- recognize The problem, the need for if icanp the officially reported tighter regulation may be obvi- television set sales in this city dwr- ate( j. To the extent that TV may ing January. the needs and feeungs oi "During the he said.

ne community, its problems may "Washington merchants sold serious." sets, an average of 500 a day for cov believes that "by the fall of', each business day. The month be- the west coast will be hooked sta-j aiready the second biggest. 'stretched" "from Boston MAr INFILLED ORDERS Philadelphia, New York. Baltimore. -'Several factors, of course, en-, and Richmond and tered the picture.

One was that wen to "-Pittsburgh Buffalo Cleve- roerchsnts had been unable to fill Toledg Detroit Chicago Mil- all their Christmas demand and vi. -Btl a no many of the January deliveries actually December orders, "Bui. on the other side of picture, there is'the fact thai WSYB-TV will co-operate with the school station in educational productions. fore was the biggest saae month in nto the spreading cable-relay the city's history and January was ne rk -which has campus and WSYR-TV'a New the Tunes btiild- citv and in sev- DCOuOCQSt ln ZO Isle, chief engineer for WSVB, said yesterday a coaxial cable will tie i the Hill studio to the station, a microwave relay -will carry ibe unU 1 versity's programs from this uoint' Firit" to the WSYR-TV transmitter on Seotinel Heights. Campus workmen last week be-.

gaa in extension of the present' The first television Queen's Messenger" Hartley Manners--was broadcast from the General Electric laboratories in the video control instruments Schenectady Sept. 11, 1328. DOUBLE FUNCTION At time Dr. Ernest W. The present observation riderson scientist will be divided to provide a sep- i the wwfeed in ijle GE lab- arate- section for projectors and i or torie f' control room in Studio A by 3 feet.

The new control room will house not only the audio equipment but 12 1 Inch Picture Built-in Aerial System Super Power cameras of FAMILY FEATURE--Unrehearsed and spontaneous, de- fihn cameras to background live: talent productions from the studio could see only a f5 ri area Cable loops will be laid from the'l er ot moved easily Three campus studio to Hendricks chapel, Crouse college auditorium. Arch- bold siadium and Maxwell auditor- Ili a ium so that shows mav eminat i rops hands whlc from these points tnem. The director operated; f-j51 jthe controls and faded each camera A iwo fold function for program- the orol er ming from the hill studio will be proper times. followed by radio-television cen- ter. according to Don Lyon.

tele- VnOntrQCt vision coordinator. The Walnut Veneer Cabinet Yes. it's the new value leader of the television the sensational Philco 1403. Brings you a 12J4" picture at of a "10" plus Built-in Aerial, In up to 8 out of 10 locations you just plug in and play! LOWEASYTERMS. Plus Tax and Warranty Coll 4-4141 for FREE Home Demonstration signed for folks (little and 1 who enjoy the land of make believe, this moppet program will he seen at 7 p.

m. Monday thru Friday on WSYR-TV. The hostess. Fran, is at right. At left is Kukla and in the center is Oliie.

the friendly dragon. will extend the television medium I QI" n6Olr TV As Low As 75 a Week! ihe time; he went ort devel op ments may recent i a )-- Will movie of point of the bitter The --m f- on TV Facilities tern was running papsr advertisements urging Wash-, satel! so to come and see more Also, we telegrams of congratulations from prominent and television local and national personalities reached the station beyond its present status in terms! experiment either on a closed, CAMDEN. N. J. jof production technic he aid and sion get in I circuit or actual broadcast basis Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp- l-wjih teaching b- television the Ra(3io Corporation of Members of the faculties of all Anfleri ca h3ve signed a new con- i university divisions will be callej! ward father advance- lupon as both consultants and ment of tbe jticipants in the hill TV shows il AU colleges and schools will lUre i'- in the Many NBC executivesipartraents already at 6Cizl mogralcmin Ior personalities also 1 0 5 'theater and" methods ol program, this week Falk.

head of the, department, will be in plans for, Free Parking Phone 4-4141 alitses seen on NBC television. to congratulate W5YR-TV on opening." Mayor Corcoran ivro RADIO LOSS TO MOUNT probably "It is a relative proposition." he tion to declared. "Television has alreadyrdso brc ernertainment. It is estimated thaticasttnf industry. ft t.i»tH:t nn then 81.000.000 radios in opera- "That is a continuing oVeclnn "I also tn take this ccnor- oev 0n "reach of urban twnity to greet tl-- residents of Cen- ision t7 al ew Ycr on yils greater as we aoproach a fib.

certainly cnuld jus- A tciearam from als point ol the disenfranchisemcn- of POTTIC new st "On the oiiier hand, there ths citizens because they live in -inely izct that television not hate area? daytime attraction radio televi the governor; continued. are indeed fortunate have (such television facilities nj exist in I Syracuse at their disposal," A letter from Sen. Irving rres tribute to WSTR's long serv- jice to the upstate area. 1 "I long been acquainted Family Circle Will Have Last Word in TV Setup nr.d TV ierlorme- a atissr there, the family audience necessary. Color will be has io say aboui Ih-c technical hie IfchrtjcoJor movies lodav, Au- lele- cw ar- satisfied with black and Hen Waller also or Jon.

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