The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 31

WICHITA KANSAS' I 'i' i i f-- Lii- 1 5' Three-in-6ne i fcfr'irv r- £SF $750000 to Be Spent Completing First UHF-TV Station in This Area j' 7 ft 1 rst iLnwmmmwm vvmv" man 1 -s UHF Makes Full: 1 For a man with a personality Coverage Possible l- three ways Bob chief i impresario and guiding light of The federal government Is the Howdy Doody" on NBC television I tialSibetnf Ulff'liSd He 15 41) Buffalo Bob (2) the voice of the PUPP 1 Pood" 011 the vastly popular through Friday parade of enteinmmt a to 1 8how and (3) to his two iZTSSS? Robto 10 and Ronnie eight-he lib only" he said 1 when rm home in New Rochelle other fternoon they wer watching the show while I was received by set owners in tne south central Kansas area are wife CONTROL STUDIO From these two 'windows looking out over the main studio at KEDD station announcements will be made and telecasts will be directed Chief Engineer George Smith and Engineer Elmer Freewaldt occupy the announcer booth left In the studio room right Engineer Tommy George bends to peer into one of six monitor sets while Engineer Claude Clevenger looks out into the studio from right I naughty clown My reported that the kW yeUed -Watch out use the stmc basic CQUipxncQtv I Buffalo Bob! apparatus that permits a man to incidentally are terrific barometers for me of being In two places at the same I Kulnea pigs If they V- like something I might try out oh Both UHF VOT sUtiona Lhem at home I use it on use light sensitive electronic cam- hQW rras to pick up an image that is I irj favorite of millions of almy ImUnUneomly America childrei Bob Smith Trap I tarted out in life to become a HVHWtfieSeS5SaieTlSklmuslcian He done badland VHP is in the electronic link I Today he pyg the piano organ cmnecting the camera and your accor(joni saxophone clarinet 1 I trombone trumpet guitar con- When this link or television slide whistle sweet po- signal is transmitted in the fre- to of Tiect pitched bi-quency band ranging from 470 to 890 megacycles then the telecast is UHF KEDD will transmit on 1 Kids for these novelty in- I called the "HI-Hsttes" who sang on several Buffalo radio' stations Kate Smith brought he Hi-Hatters to New York a year later and introduced the yourig trio to her network radio audience This resulted in several months of vaudeville bookings in snd around New York Station 'WGR Buffalo then offered Bob a permanent Job as staff pianist arid vocalist rHe left the trio stayed with WGR until 1944 i For the next two years at WBEN Buffalo Bob built a reputation as one of Western New York! best known radio names His talents as emcee singer pianist and arranger identified him with many of the most popular musical programs snd he was featured on most of the network programs originating in Buffalo Competing with strong network opposition he broke audience-building records with his local programs Early in 1947 a few months after Bob moved to-New1 York City land WNBC where he did an radio show for three years he was assigned to emcee a Saturday morning chil-- redid show It was called and was a quiz show with Western format Bob revived 4 character he had created in Buffalo named "Elmer who! always addressed ttye children with doody kids!" Soon the children called him "Howdy Doody" i It long before the kids demanded 7 to see Howdy Two days after Christmas 1947 the TV show 'was launched "HoWdy Doody is officially the television series with the most broadcasts of any Everybody on the show has a very personal fee-ling about Howdy Bob said just the other day the boom man put the mike over head Instead of mine" Boj is married to the former Mildred Metza classmate all the way jtirirough eighth grade and a neighbor when they went to different high schools i go "more exDlained "more ne more one segment channel 16 of this frequency band VHP stations 1 With its 24 gain antenna the station's effective radiated power will be 20400 watts Using the same antenna the 10-KW transmitter will put out 204000 watts in TV signals -j Maze of Power Lines 1 A trench wiring system is used here If you were to raise one of the steel floor panels find the maze of lines which carry power and signals throughout the building At control panels' George Smith chief and his engineers Tommy George Elmer Freewaldt and Claude Clevenger were monitoring the network NBC signal flashed to the station on an ATJS and microwave A parabolic reflector faced southwest from the rear side and top of the building picks up these signals now Shortly' be moving on out through the 711-foot antenna tower to Wichita area viewers Here in the transmitter room too is the film camera' It is coupled to a slide camera which projects a picture onto the iconoscope tube It converts the picture to electrical impulses and relays the picture through the transmitter to viewers when the camera- is cut into the circuit Alongside the slide camera are air (movie film)' projectors which project their motion into mirrors reflecting into the iconoscope tube is good for 1400 hours use and costs $500 Gross-man explained In itemizing some of the equipment costs you rapidly get the idea of why TV is such a gigantic undertaking financially Within 30 days the station will have another film camera slide two projectors and camera like the first KEDD is starting operations with two studio cameras incidentally The image orthicon tubes in these usable 200 hours cost $1200 each Times Shows 1 Chuck Bloomquist a tall lanky and dark haired young man is the fellow who supervises the film ciamera film director At KEDD Saturday he was checking and cataloguing films on a-number of the programs which will be seen here and assembling some of the commercial slides which will be 'used' full-length features- westerns and half-hour shows he said pointing to one rack which was rapidly filling with film material' Bloomquist times shows edits them works in the commercials and auditions the programs for sponsors in his film room located between the front offices and the transmitter room To the east and south of th transmitter room is the shop and the areas where- equipment racks open for servicing of tubes con- -densers and the maze of hun dreds and hundreds of tiny- wires that go into transmitting After week of testing through pattern that ir going on the air this week television station KEDD plans to bring viewers of this area fine NBC-TV shows starting Saturday Any 22 Bob Grossman public relations director for the stallion announced Friday Wichita's young Mr Video is putting his signal on the air this week end From the antenna on the 711-foot tower JUst west of Hillside and south of 37th street the test pattern of KEDD Inc is flashing out over the ultra high frequency channel No 16 Regular programming' a member of the staff said Saturday will follow Just as soon as engineers of Radio Corporation of America are satisfied with results of' the test -Any day- of the past- several weeks you could find two to a half dozen cars pulled of at the side of 37th street Drivers and passengers sat watching some of the machinations of getting a-TV station on the air Triumph culminates the years of research study organization and application necessary to bring the air capital her first TV station John Boiler construction company of Muskogee Okla raised the antenna tower with Its 18 white and orange sections 36 feet seven inches each The 40 tons of steel triangular column is engineered to a tip the size of a saucer and stands on 25 tons of concrete Concrete pilings deep and anchor cables' hundreds of feet away to hold that tower against the forces of nature The raising of the tower (which takes a man almost half an hour to climb by ladder) is the thing IN Engineer Elmer Freewaldt enters the sound-lock at station KEDD oq 37th street west of Hillside Note his hand against the width' of the door leading from business offices toward the about three inches thick The shuts outside sound from the studio KEDD TRANSMITS teorge Smith chief engineer for television station KEDD Wichita UHF Channel 16 is at the transmitter panel at right rear and two engineers monitor TV signals At left Elmer Freewaldt hovers over the board bringing in an NBC network show Right Tommy George monitors a KEDD test pattern being transmitted by the film camera in the station fc transmit on the frequency orchestra WOUld ranging from SO to 216 He mastered the more conven- cjcles Both frequency bands are tlonal musical instruments in the part of the vagt spectrum of Ire- apoVe list when he was still pre-over types of t0 become a high school music teacher He want scholar-ehIp 10 1116 Oberlin college (Ohio) ample is broadcast in tlw medium music school but had to turn it tTOm 500 t0 1600 down when his father died and Band Limited Bom In Buffalo Oct 17 3W7 Bob atarted piano lessons at the VHP frequency bend proved the 'Ke 0( tlve to his own vide raough for only 1J chan- He preferred baseball to nels The demand for new sta- mmlc Hls father's stem hand thn the metronome and an alarm 80 while VHP stations we com-ejMC to keep him practicing com- l5onthe lr experimmtebegan to turn out an accomplished with transmission of TVj)lc- phrnist and singer tur in the TOP fluency band of 15 BobJoIned a Development of UHF equipment 1 snd techniques enabled jthe federal communications corriniission to assign 70 more channels for telecasting and began trie licensing of 1436 stations KEDD was among the first of these stations to receive -FCC approval Financial experts have predicted that well over 800 TV stations both UHF and VHP will be in operation in the next five years Other experts predicted that UHF will bnng TV for the first time to medium and small size cities' These communities for the most part were bypassed when VHF station allotments were made by the FCC in the late Many of the new UHF stations will be low-power i operations designed to reach only the people in a single community More Power Authorized But other UHF stations such as KEDD will aim at reaching the same listening area now reached by VHF stations an average radius of 50 miles The FCC has recognized this by authorizing a maximum power ceiling of only 100 kilowatts on the lowest frequency VHF channels snd the 316 kilowatts cm high frequency VHF channels ss compared to 1000 kilowatt operations in the UHF channels Because UHF operates at such extremely high frequencies it has some advantages over VHF telecasting For one thing It is virtually free of interference caused by man-made static Such things ss automobile ignition systems faulty neon signs snd household appliances snd lighting equipment will not interfere with a UHF television picture Experiments conducted at the world's first 4 experimental UHF TV station In Bridgeport Conn indicated that such antenna types as the rhombic parabolic helix corner 'reflector dipole ymgi and staked were usable in some areas for UHF reception -The converters necessary for TV sets built before the advent of UHF are simple electronic devices that enable the super-short UHF signal to activate your television set These adaptors are available in both single station and all-station models Many new sets coming onto the market are equipped for receiving both VHF and UHF television 17-piece REAR VIEW--This is from the rear At right is the near center are electric building is the parabolic (dark rectangular) core for ing unit FILMS ARE BIG TV director 'for station catalogs film to be For the first 90 days the and network then will FIRST TV STATION STUDIO From this beautiful Silver-dale stone building south of 37th street and west of Hillside Channel 16 UHF television station KEDD is putting the first Wichita TV test pattern on the air this week end The east -part of the station is going into immediate use The large business office section and studio will be brought into full use as the station grows into its new task in the City (Eagle Staff Photos) i i 1 1 i 1 i i 1 1 i i i i i I i i kir I -HIM' ft- 1 experts are the housecoats Men these are probably what you will see most Newest designs include housecoats of corduroy with matching denim pants All in all it looks like this TV hostess will be catered to by a tremendous variety of designs the experts say' all created to help her enjoy watching the shadows on her TV screen And for men well the researchers turned up any new TV designs for clothing So it looks like the lady of the TV house will be all dressed up in her new look- while her husband settles down with his good old pipe and slippers Use In Placing Set Select your television screen by sight snd sense This is the advice of experts in answer to questions on the correct screen size for comfortable televiewing There is no need for an extra large room for the large 21- and 27-inch television sets Generally any room that can use a 9 12 rug is large enough for a 21- or 27-inch set The best viewing spot in the room will vary with the individual officials said With a little experimentation each member of the family soon will find his most comfortable spot Just as in the some will prefer to be front others aisle" and row The most important thing is tQ learn to adjust your set for the clearest and brightest picture Avoid glare from' Incorrect lighting of the room Light should be even-and the lamps placed so that they will not reflect light into the screen Avoid pictures framed in glass behind the or distracting objects on the set itselfo Good common sense Should be your guide in locating a permanent place for your television set It will become the focal point of your furniture groupings most likely snd you will want the television set to add to the attractiveness of your room Perhaps you will place it against the wsIL Or you may prefer it on a turntable movable to the center of the room-" building oh 37th street base of the 7l foot tower power transformers Atop the micro-wave receiver and "the' a 45-ton TV air condition- 4 1 3 C'j '( 5 vl Assures Good Signal Here is -the sync generator which assures a' good signal I Here too is the filterplexer a that has caught the public eye-piece of equipment which looks And the new station is a thing of uke-a combined high school phys-beauty to behold ics static machine- (the big balls) built for growth said Bob and perhaps a modem cyclatron Grossman the station's-public re-1 jtg j0b is to the audio lations director and visual signal and move them To see how make a quick tour of out through the nitrogen-filled the 10000 square feet building I perfect copper pipes to the! an built of concrete brick arid faced Uenna And In mixing the engi-with Silvcrdale stone on north and rneers 'will tell you they actually east mean-keeping the signals sep- Cooler for TV arate while moving them up the The station has been designed by tower to the air waves Video arid Ben Adler of Adler Communica- audio signals travel on separate firms laboratories of New Rochelle I frequencies who put the first UHF I The racks along this back sec-station on the air in Portland Ore Ition are air conditioned with fresh Robert Bowler Kansas City the- filtered air coming in from the ater architect has done the archi- bottom and heated air being tectural work all on one floor drawn out the top I and overhead on the second level Within the-KEDD building th is the 45 ton air conditioner espe-J transmission line is three inch cislly designed to cool TV stations copper pipe But -the signals andtheir intricate electrical equip- the tower within 1 61i- men inch copper line and its core! is In the process of growth KEDD another copper pipe of about 1-will use wrhat it calls the inch diameter I half-of ite sUtion inch of the line 1 must Coming in from the east en- be it is explained fA trance youll find yourself in a bump may give the viewer qn tastily appointed reception room echo or edge shadow along the TO the right is the office of the image I general manager sales director Alongside the wall opening and the program director At where the signsrl is sped out left from the hall is the art di- within its copper pipe is the tower rectors and promotion section and lights control I the newsroom- Almost 150 feet In theair are the Adjoining this area on the giant floods which light the dead- south Is the transmitter room the men anchoring cables to the hesrt of KEDD and even here tower And red obstruction lights Is one of the key con-at half a' dozen levels to the peak cepts beacon are turned on automiti- The 1-KW RCA transmitter tally from th spot And on a con-takes up three panels in the con- trol panel within the station a trol with four panels await- red light ticks off and on in time lng the 10-KW equipment now with the obstruction light to show being ripened for the station it is burning Just as dashboard These next few paragraphs are strictly for the ladies but husbands can peek if they want to know just what their wives have been dreaming up to wear while looking at the family television set Because fellas designers are now creating special clothing styles First of all the researchers report TV seems to have increased the importance of clothes And to dress designers at home can mean anything from slacks to evening gowns For instance one of this most fashions features say the experts a length- gown for the little woman to wear while entertaining guests in front of the TV set Something Different The family will be treated to something entirely different The Investigators sallying out into strange territory found that the new rat home styles are merely according to one prominent continuation snd (elaboration of something that has been going on iri clothes for a long time 1 The used to apply to rnen who dressed in baggy tweeds and smoked pipes Now say the researchers the women have appropriated both the title and the look itself From now on the lady of the house may be tempted to approach her TV set wearing long tapered trousers say the investigators These trousers will reach down to just below the calf or even go on down to the ankle 80 far the tapered trousers much more extreme than any "pegged have been designed in velveteen silk Jersey denim corduroy snd wooL Jackets and Skirts To accompany the trousers Jackets! But worry boys The researchers found out that women will continue to wear skirts too Fabric lineup in 1 the skirt division includes cotton quilted corduroy taffetas brocades' silks laces velveteens and nets Dressier skirts will be splashed with gold peppered with jewels embroidered and ruffled The experts shyly mention that the ruffles will be tacked onto petticoats too Ami then the boys switch quickly to sweaters snd blouses These they have been told will feature higher necklines snd plain old ordinary sleeves Housecoats and Pants But the most informal of 'the new look designs say the ITEMUChuck Bloomquist film Channel 1 6 (UHF) television ixs'ed in telecast programs station will rely heavily on filnriv begin-rstudio 'telecasts -jaLvjq HKMzi r-v'i turn signal lights keep time in automobiles Ready at Signal As soon as the RCA engineers gre satisfied with the test transmissions KEDD will go on the air been concentrating all effort on getting our equipment in and putting it into Grossman said "For the first 60 to 90 days are will rely on network and film And then KEDD will be expanding into other areas of its station still under construction as it puts its first signals into the ether The main studio Is a giant room 40 by SO feet with 20-foot ceilings and on the west is the big 50x20 prop room The floor is super smooth for dollying cameras into position The announce booth looks out upon the studio from a height of six or so feet above the floor Here is a monitor for keeping up on the telecast and microphones for direct studio announcements Leaving the announce booth you walk into the quarters for thf studio control director Here art six monitors small mat? chines hooked into circuits in the KEDD building Two will follow slide and film projections from the transmitting room Two will be geared to the cameras in the studio One will track the incoming network program and a sixth will project the program which the station is putting on the air Studio programs are directed and edited from here as they go out Grossman explained that the station had all the room it could want for use as studio space at the start And room to expand if need be In an offset area adjoining the controls booth a studio kitchen has been planned and will be installed for use in homemaking programs and direct commercials KEDD plans to go on the air at the start from 5 to 10:30 un and plans eventually to increase hours to 7 axnj to midnight North of the studio is that part of the building which eventually will become the main offices In process" of construction it is to include a lavish reception room eight offices snd a living room style conference room And outside are 27 acres for drives parking and future building programs completed and our expansion complete in these quarters with our full staff KEDD will have spent three-quarters of a million dollars- said Gross-man' -Hence young Mr Wichita Video takes the air I i 1-' o' 1 1 -I 'i 4 Va-X If 1 K' 1 -vTV'-' ifipT J-S Sr rf Hi i ft y-- kM I is 3 vy Jr: 1 I Stars' Memories May Not Be Good As Their Sight -Tj 'i NEW YORK Aug Maybe you have marveled over the way htievlsion stars rattle off their lines so smoothly ss they peer intently Into the camera: Actually' they are reading their scripts right before your eyes A mechanical device electrically controlled makes this possible It is mounted on the camera just above the lens so no wonder the TV actor keepe bis eyes fixed right on the camera The gadget Js a similar to the also a "sczlpt reader but a larger and separate unit The is used on several NBC-TV shows and consists basically of a motor driven set of tollers on which the script is passed Reading at a distance is helped by a large-magnifying lens' X- Control of the moving script Is done electrically by an operator seated at a separate console He can slow or speed up movement of the script in step with the action by means of crank turned manually on a duplicate -1 1 -'l 1 1 I i'1- J'H-m fesd 'N Hi i ''i i I i 7 i SIGNALS -Engineers Claude Clevenger left and Tommy George stand just below the KEDD-TV fil- ferp lexer which' dispatches the mixed aiidio and video 1 signals up the 711 foot tower into thp 'antenna The signals travel in nitrogen-gas-filled pipes entering pic- ture at left and right TEST This Identification slide test pattern of Wichita station KEDD is Ibeing telecast this week end to video set viewers through the Wichita area --ji -'-T 'V 1 i i 1 4dA' 8 It i 4 I' -J 1 1 3-.