Presto
Issue: 1939 2287 - Page 10
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FARNSWORTH TELEVISION STATION, WYNDMOOR (Philadelphia)
Diagram Indicates Approximate Directional Coverage of Station.
TELEVISION ...A
NEW FIELD
FOR MUSIC DEALERS
What Does This Infant Industry Promise The Music Trades ?
RECEIVING SETS FOR $175?
The American Television Corporation is said to be at-
tempting a deal with the Don Lee Network on the Coast.
The deal turns on the manufacturer's ability to produce
television receivers to retail at $175.
THE SIZE OF THE MARKET
Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount Pictures' execu-
tive committee, believes that from 30,000 to 100,000 televi-
sion receiving sets will be sold in the United States this
year.
SHOW BUSINESS PREPARES
NBC has hired Max Gordon, famous Broadway and Hol-
lywood producer, to supervise telecasts. The NBC script
department has already prepared some television scripts.
Certain band leaders, actors, and other entertainers of the
screen and airw r ays are said to be hurriedly adapting their
styles to the advent of television.
T
MILLIONS FOR TELEVISION
Testimony offered at the monopoly hearing before the
FCC tends to show that $750,000 will be spent on television
this year. Disputing this figure, officers of the Columbia
Broadcasting System maintain that CBS alone will spend
$1,350,000 on television during the remainder of 1939.
F. D. R. TELEVISED
AS HE OPENS N. Y. FAIR
A President of the United States was televised for the
first time at the opening of the New York World's Fair
on April 30.
Transmission took place as President Franklin I). Roose-
velt delivered the address at the fair grounds which started
the exposition.
RCA's NEW YORK EXHIBIT
Coincident with the opening of the New York World's
Fair, Radio Corporation of America plans to make televi-
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FARNSWORTH TELEVISION STATION, WYNDMOOR (Philadelphia)
Diagram Indicates Approximate Directional Coverage of Station.
TELEVISION ...A
NEW FIELD
FOR MUSIC DEALERS
What Does This Infant Industry Promise The Music Trades ?
RECEIVING SETS FOR $175?
The American Television Corporation is said to be at-
tempting a deal with the Don Lee Network on the Coast.
The deal turns on the manufacturer's ability to produce
television receivers to retail at $175.
THE SIZE OF THE MARKET
Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount Pictures' execu-
tive committee, believes that from 30,000 to 100,000 televi-
sion receiving sets will be sold in the United States this
year.
SHOW BUSINESS PREPARES
NBC has hired Max Gordon, famous Broadway and Hol-
lywood producer, to supervise telecasts. The NBC script
department has already prepared some television scripts.
Certain band leaders, actors, and other entertainers of the
screen and airw r ays are said to be hurriedly adapting their
styles to the advent of television.
T
MILLIONS FOR TELEVISION
Testimony offered at the monopoly hearing before the
FCC tends to show that $750,000 will be spent on television
this year. Disputing this figure, officers of the Columbia
Broadcasting System maintain that CBS alone will spend
$1,350,000 on television during the remainder of 1939.
F. D. R. TELEVISED
AS HE OPENS N. Y. FAIR
A President of the United States was televised for the
first time at the opening of the New York World's Fair
on April 30.
Transmission took place as President Franklin I). Roose-
velt delivered the address at the fair grounds which started
the exposition.
RCA's NEW YORK EXHIBIT
Coincident with the opening of the New York World's
Fair, Radio Corporation of America plans to make televi-
N
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).