Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 47

4 -t vyy tr'r' yrr rr -r -r imwMT lAitrn na i AND ECTT22Y53 CYC32D3 ASEKJFAXr i awotai ezvtctt igmwra iCTmaa daily cr on Blackstrap antenna Is located Hill' In Falmouth llA WCSH-TV Programing Starts At 7 A Runs 18 Hours Dally WGAN-TVTo Move To Gannett Building- Expanding Programs Locally-produced programs by WCSH-TV when the station first took to the air were "Visit With Agnes Gibbs" a half-hour afternoon kitchen show Monday through Friday: "Your Home and a half-ftaur afternoon show with Roger Withlngton home-improvement and decorating on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and the Channel Six News Journal Mondays through Fridays at 8:30 Local programs adoed sines that time have been "Youth Cavalcade" a teen-age forum-type show "Dateline Today" Tuesdays end Thursdays at and Eleven O'clock News end Weather appearing seven days a week Recently a new noon-time show for women was Inaugurated It Is "Living Down with Jean Vann as hostess Other loeal pro- ly to 10 am The new starting time of daily program coincides to a great extent with the operation! day for the stations In the lancer metropolitan areas The NBC-TV daily Dave Garrowas Today is the granddaddy of all early morning shows on TV Other networks have sines taken up similar early day program offerings WCSH-TV is owned and operated by Congress Square Hotel Go of Portland and ths studios and offices am located at the Eastland Hotel at J57 High St Portland Ptiftrstrap' The station's transmitter end -I By JOHNNY BOBINSOX Eighteen houn of TVprogram-tng for neb wcek-diy cam in to being In Maine this month Mien WCSH-TV starting Its difily day of operations at 7 a with Dave Tbdiy" show one of the tegular features of Since the station opened Dec 1953 there has been a grad backing-up of its daily start big hour Tor programing When the station first took to the air started its dally operations at I pm and operated until mid night' Then there was a back-Ing-up to noon and more recent BY JOHNNY ROBINSON Realizing that cramped studio pate has prevented WGAN-Ti from presenting as expended program of local programs as It has desired' thaOperators of that television station announce the situation wiH be corrected to the with tha Guy Gannett Co owners and operators of WGAN-TV taking over the entire fourth Boot of the Pram Herald Building With this chaiwe the management looks for-want to vastly expanding local programs as well as probably adding to Its network schedule WU Expand WGAN-TV has steadily expanded its telecasting hours end hopes wU be able to expand to a much greater degree during 1955 WGAN-TV Is an affiliate of the Columbia Broadcasting System which offers network programs WMTW Official Says Another anted young boysf Elton Britt with folk songs: and the "Di mond Workshop" WCSH-TV wee the first TV station to bring-televised baseball to Maine with a substantial number of the Boston Red Sox games These Included both home end away games More Games The management of WCSH-TV expects that during the 1955 on they will be bringing an even greater number of Red wax games to northern New England viewers In He first year of operating WCSH-TV brought many public service programs to Its viewers The station extended Ita cooperation" to the Chest agencies the Maine Medical Center the Civilian Defense agendas both State and local the Armed services and others A high point of Its public service work waa the Cerebral Palsy telethon which wee conducted ever period of 17 hours from the Eastland Hotel ballroom and featured nationally known television performers This telethon raised some $30000 for the Cerebral Palsy Associates Early in January 1965b the Dumont Television network and WCSH-TV signed contracts whereby Channel Six became an affiliate of the Dumont Network In addition to being associated with the National Broadcasting Company After signing Mth Dumon WCSH-TV started immediately ths weekly telecasts of the Rishon Fulton Sheen "Life Is Worth Living-program William Rines managing director of WCSH-TV Others In charge of various operations are Jack Atwood director of TV operations: Charles Brown BY JOHNNY XOpdSOX A local business man-at a service chib luncheon at which John Madlgan program director for tbs Channel-Eight televised station WMTW was the speaker askec a pertinent question 1 will something be done to eRminate so much duplication of programs between your station and another station that ws are receiving here?" he asked i The representative of Mount WaaMngtonJV too gave the one for thie end various solutions that might be used to curb the duplication But the problem of duplication Is slipping farther and farther away Mth ths announcement that Is being made by John Norton Jr vtoe-pvesldant and general manager of WMTW Norton refers to the aimouiiea-mant as most significant vent to Maine television" Norton says a third network microwave circuit Into the area being built by the New England Bell Telephone Go will be opened up shortly Wide Variety The third circuit' will Immediately result In a wider variety in program choice for the viewers of Maine New Hampshire end Vermont according to Norton who states that much of this variety will occur In the field of port and "on-the-scene" special vents 1 Norton explains that tire third circuit will enable three of the views this development as- most significant of tha near but goes on to say that people caa prediet Mth accuracy more than a few months to to ths television Industry the most significant development In TV for a time around here" ha says be the Installation and sw fel operation of the first regional television transmitter In history top ML Washington despite worst weather to the eastern United Statee" "Tha aaone of that signal reaching out through southern Quebec east to the and west beyond Champlain to New York Stats has amazed an of us" New Ihows The third micro-wave circuit win result immediately to scheduling of near programs Channel not previously seen this area according to Program Director John Madlgan for these programs are being drawn he says end the are expected to hit tbq between Feb 1 and March I Further expansion this month planned at ML Washington' to daytime field with the addition several new features for women This is but the first move according to Madlgan In a plan calle for gradual moving hour back to the morning ML' Washington TV spokesmen from 7 am dally Monday through starting Mth Jack Parr's Show" each of these days There has been much Interest shown toward having this pro- -gram included among the dally offerings of the station-Some of the morning programs offered by CBS-TV era now seen by WGAN-TV viewers by we of klnsoeoope recordings Chief among these presented at a later drily viewing hour is ths party Moore Show i Other then not fairing the amount of studio spam they would like operators of WGAN-TV have come up with the finest television equipment available Tewtr DOTeoltlM WGAN-TV went on the Mr May 18 1954 Zt took to the air waves on an Interim basis because its tower had not arrived and ks output was 60000 watts During tha summer of 1954 WGAN-TVs regular tower went into operation and then tta power became 240000 watts This power wu again increased to the maximum allotted by FCC which -Is 316000 watts Since this went' Into effect at tha tint of this year tests to determine coverage results obtained from It have not been completed WGAN-TV had CBS and ABC affiliate agreement when It went on the air and has steadily In- -creased tta number of network programs since May 18 1954 t' til now it carries practically a complete Ret of the best network presentations--- Living up to the high standards set up by tha' Guy Gannett Broadcuttag Services ever the K1S years WGAN-TV wu anx-to bring tha very latest to television to tot people to Its area so to the an cf 3954 It Inaugurated odor telecasting It now transmits a large percentage of the CSS network color programs the future few advance long the Atlantic Lake the on la Bookings now programs air is the of that the print out that during 1954 WMTW constructed one of ths most unique transmitter buildings and television antennas In the world at the 300-foot level of ML Washington The tower had to be reinforced to stand 200-mlle sn hour winds and be heated to shed thousands of pounds of lee ss fast It farmed The buildings had to be built to accommodate whotta four major networks to feed pro grams Into Maine simultaneously so that viewers may have a choice for example of an NBC drama a CBS quia panel and as ABC boxing bout at the same time This onto possible at present if one of the programs Is recorded program or "kinescope" as they an called on TV Norton emphasizes that he -ft regularly live on the mountain top two weeks at a time and ride down on a the third week for i rest Finally a modern television probably the largest In New was constructed in the farmer dining room of the Riecsr Inn on the grounds of the hirtoric Poland Spring Uriels to round out accomplishments Now 29 men and women are employed in TV at Poland Spring end 47 In ell Portland Boston and- ML Washington to addition to Poland Spring American leather manufectur- tanned more than 22000000 cattle hides In 1954 to provide the leather far 75 of all the shoes made to the United Statee Other hides end skins tanned Include: 13000000 calf skins 30000000 gost end kid skins 25JXXM100 sheep 700000 hones 400000 kangaroos and 3003000 MAINE'S MOST MODERN SERVICE DEFT MAINE'S MOST MODERN SERVICI DEPT chief engineer Burnell Poole pn gram director Linwood Pitman promotional director and Phil Johnson news director WCSH-TV employs a staff of 7L Including the radio staff previously employed by WCSH-Redlo the sister station of Channel Six WCSH-TV operated Mth 100-000 wstta visual powers and 80-000 watte aural power "RADIO DIS PATCHED "RADIO DIS PATCHED I ABSOLUTELY HO DOWN PAYMENT errr 94 MAIN ST -1st IN COLOR- ae i i i i PHONI 4444 UW1STON MAINI i i- i TS I- iyy 'Vv 1 4 "i Values The GOLDEN VU8 "21" 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