Stockton Evening and Sunday Record from Stockton, California • 18

-r sA 1 i Local residents are a prominent part in keeping KTVU f-' bn the Heading the list Is Dave Greene as operations manager toe the new video outlet. Is the former 1 manager of Radlo. Station KSTN. I lri the fenirinecring'. department are Carl McGee, chief engineer of KSTN and KTVU; Roger Marer, formerly of College of the Pacific's KCVN.

(FM). who is stationed at the remote 1 transmitter on Tele- 7 view. Hill, .27 miles west oT Stock-ton, and Ben The program and production.de- partments claim HarryUhleneberg Gene Tiscomla'; while Larry Dick' Chuck Hinkle and Art -Dull are' in -the art de-partment and Jack Keith in sales. Traffic is LQO per cent COP and Stockton in the persons of Jeanne Hardie and Janet What does it cost to operate a television set for one According Vto Knox LaRue, general manager, of KTVU, Channel. 36, 'the average TV.lfcet costs about 1 penny per; hour to opeiv ate! According to the power 1 com-, pany-; serving the greater New York erba, the average home light hill is Increased by $5 a ear with the 'addition, of.

a television set. Two bridge lamps cost about the same for each hour of operation as an average television receiver. When television? first became available '-'for -f the "screens varied between seven jf end 10 Inches and the television chassis StrRretehsef rj'Puzded overvtelevision: etiquet f. If so, here are some Q.4 if-) Should you drop" lxr- on friends unexpectedly and find tiiem watching television, is it better to accept' their, invitation to Come in and watch or should you leave? A. Of course, accept their invitation -if you If.

the program does not interest you, you may leave at the first pause. Q. If your host and hostess say they are not' interested in the program are watching when you drop in, can you -take them at their word and stay for a visit 't AT It woujd be perfectly all right for you to stay. ---If -you have: been invited Id watch a. definite program, must you watch it if you are; not in-terested A.

Yes, you must at least pretend to watch -the show. it necessary to introduce strangers during a TV show? '4 No; introductions should wait until the show so as not to disturb other O-VP-iV-'A new. SI (station Identification) was aired for the first time at 6 p. m. here yesterday as the world's most powerful television station, KTVU, Channel 36, Ultra High Frequency, began its first, regular program -f if The initial of programs'" followed by three daysthe first airing of.

the test7 pattern signal, which will be continued daily for the first; week from until sign-on time at 5:30 p.tn. Using a power output of 525,000 watts, Knox i La Rue, vice-president and general manager, said KTVU, Stocktons first television station, actually will be a regional station which will embrace a primary area south from Merced to Marysville on the north. a "While KTVU is classed as re- I Ul IlltU IU I IUI gional rather than a local station, -v- La Rue added, we will promote Til; ntdrrPronrP Stockton as the 4wy city in, the I III I Cl I ClCl ILC rtSSt WASHINGTON STARTAT 5.30 waited sights' and sounds show irom up In a television set, do" not be too quick to reach -for a sledge hammer, -or to blama the neigh- 5:30 pt m. until li p. dl.

but the first weeks schedule calls for, a time of 6 La Rue OPERATION i A NAG Dave Greene, former manager of Radio Station KSTN, is opera-' tions manager for KTVU; Stock- tons first television station oni Channel Higi Fre-' PROGRAM MANAGER Don? Russell, independent television: 7 producer of the Bay: Area) program and production man- ager for KTVXJ, Stocktons television outlet, which telecasting yesteday.s'Stf-.t; hors. Get In touch with the local television Interference committee, if your community has one; Most TV. stations or amateur radio clubs will offer aidL-: j-v The Federal Communications Gommlssioh has reported such committees are functioning successfully in about 2(X communities in a co-operative -effort to keep TV reception good. -The Idea started in Dallas, Tex- and has spread to 177 other With millions of the sets in use, the FCC -said the -Interference problem is a growing Some receivers give out as well as get interference. Inexpensive shields frequently correct The FCC announcement X- told the story, of a family who re KTVU HEAD Knox 'La Rue, veterari radio station operator of Visalia, OrovMe and Stockton, is general, manager of, KTVU, the dtys first outlet, which began telecasting a regu-; lar program schedule yesterday on Channel.

36, Ultra High Fre- i-llBLaauiayyyyy Aaaaaaaabbott i klhat howl, long -familiar to millions of radio listeners and movie soon will, be; coming into the homes of viewers who live within telecasting range of KTVU, Channel 36k it was disclosed today. Of course, the howl belongs to pudgy, short, Lou Costello and he is yelling for his partner and straight man. Bud Abbott. Ci KTVU officials announced the new station has bought the exclusive rights -to -the full series of Abbott and Costello television shows, and start beaming them shortly on a regular schedule. Bud and Lou.

who have been together for more than 25 years, are veterans of almost every phase of show v' "We started In burlesque LoU admits, "and weve done musical comedy, rauio, motion pictures, and, er, and And if theres any other phase of show business we havent covered, weve done that, too, his partner Abbott A The two comics repeat some of their most riotous routines in their television shows, including one that become an American classic; Whos on Although Musid Corporation of producers of 'their 52-program series, announces -that theiy stories have a plot line, no one who has seen the series takes that statement Yoo seriously. was quite weak compared with todays fhodels. But, in spite of the-improvement of TV sets in the six or seven years they have been available, the average cost of operation has declined. I f. of 21-inch I -si u.

9. made 4 by atop: manutacturer. own. stages get excellent performance 4" -eo-' J1 r- high standards 1 in areas? r- 'tL starting m. said Is because soma rescheduling will be necessary to provide a balanced arid X.

varied family program daily. Later; when conditions warrant a change, he said, the starting time will be moved back to 2:30 p. m. when women features will be presented. While the spotlight now is on KTVXTs air debut, hearings are about to be opened in Washington, D.

CL. for the permit of Stocktons second video outlet, which will be on Channel 13, Very High Frequency. Two applications are on file for this channel, with Radio Station KXOB.vieing.with Radio Diablo for the license. The hearing is scheduled to begin Thursday in the nation's capital. STUDIO AT EAST MAW KIVU is owned and operated by the San Joaquin Telecasted, who also operate Radio Station KSTN here.

While La Rue supervisee both operations, Dave Greene, former manager of KSTN, now is manager, of operations for the viedo outlet. Heading the program and pro-1 duction department is Don Russell, veteran Bay Area TV personality, with Carl McGee, chief engineer of KSTN, also supervising the video engineering staff. Headquarters for KTVU is at Television House, which formerly was the East Theater at 2293 E. Main The transmitter site Is atop Teleview Hill, which is 27 miles west of Stockton and 10 miles north of Livermore." the present, KTVU does not have any. network affiliations; but La Rue said it is likely that a contract with one or more national nets might he signed before the first or-the year.

He did not -A Thousands of satisfied enthusiatie owners' have spread the good word about the V. 'L' r- w-- 1 wonderful performance of their Sherman, Clay TV are 3 carloads of even better, values Everyone a UHF all-wave 82 -chanhel receiver at unheard of ported getting a terrible squealing noise on Friday nights duty ing wrestling 'matches. The local committee was called. It discovered an elderly unde of the family always, dropped in on Fridays for the wrestlings A set of weak batteries in his hearing aid caused the interference. 1 i- TV Work Tough Says" Southern HOLLYWOOD Ann Sothem, after a year of starring in TVs Private Secretary told reporters: 5 Tt was the toughest4 work I had ever I had been desperately ill for three years and the only- way to prove Jdy else Jhat the toughest lesperai thoug! to myself and everybody else Jhat iraa well wac-to do the toughest ng It almost railed out I proved that I had my ka.1, more a Pv1 SmM hi "'v'' 1 'J'' -t, mMm if on your does means whites, I y'ef eye dear, siteady picture automatically High fidelity audio system high 'sensitivity -rf powerful chassis especially suited to outstanding fringe area reception Start "iV -3 i en 1 s- 'y 1 i -T.

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