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STAR*TECH JOURNAL/JULY 1983
NEWS BITS/
DEPT. OF LABOR SERVICE INDUSTRY GROWTH REPORT
NEW TUBE FAMILY
Department of Labor reports growth In service Industry
The Technical Monthly
for the Amusements Industry
P.O. Box 1065
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JULY 1983
VOLUME 5, NO. 5
Publisher/Editor
James Galore
Administrative Assistant
LT. DiRenzo
Art/Advertising Coordinator
Paul Ehlinger
Circulation Promotion
Linda Geseking
The following statistics are from the U.S. Department of Labor, as cited in the May
17 issue of U.S. News & World Report.
In 1980, there were approximately 83,000 individuals engaged in the occupation
of"TV, radio repairer". Over the decade from 1980 to 1990, this group is expected
to grow by 28% or more.
If we adopt a conservative figure of 28%, this figures out as 23,240 new jobs. If
the population of the United States is assumed to be (roughly) 300 million people by
the year 1990, then this represents 77 new jobs per million Americans.
What th,ese statistics do not say is that the narrow role of"TV, radio repairer''
cannot meet their range of consumer electronics servicing demands that are
emerging throughout the 1980s - especially videotape recorders, home computers,
video games and the like. Clearly, the 77 new jobs per million Americans figure is
too low.
Additionally, the "repairer'' is finding himself less and less able to cope with the
increasing complexity and diversity of consumer electronics products. A large
fraction of the new jobs are - and will be - for those who view themselves as
technicians, not repairers.
(Source: ES&1)
New tube family
Always on the lookout for features to make to~of-the-line sets more salable, TV set
makers have modernized a sure-fire old approach - a change in color picture-tube
size and shape. This year will see the introduction of the first members of a new
family of picture tubes. They'll have sharply squared comers and flatter faces,
presenting a pleasing aspect in a set Because the comers have been extended, the
new tubes will be designated 14, 20, and eventually 26 inches, replacing the former
13-, 19-, and 25-inch tubes. The first such tubes will come from Japan, to be
followed by American-made versions. The new size nomenclature runs head-on
into a long-held superstition of American TV set manufacturers that no even-
numbered tube size has ever succeeded.
Layout
Dale Meloni Graphics
Contributing
Technical Writers
Todd Erickson
Don Becker
Mark "Bear'' Attebery
Julius Robins Ill
Mario Hudson
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