7(ion oi RADIO DAILY, Tuesday, May 24. 1949 — TELEVISION DAILY is fully protected by register and copyright SBC WORKING ON REMOTE EQUIP. Main Project Is Cantor Nixes Weekly TV Hoctlown TELÉ TOPICS Television's impact is not con- Light Weight lined to metropolitan areas ac- Relay Getir TV And Leaves Pabsl cording to a communique from ICE DAY, when the average home the Texas prairies. Down in the London — Working in collabora- reen offers pictures in full color and (Continued from Page 1) little town of Weston, a country tion with leading equipment manu- a: larger than today's models, ballet one point to going along with Pabst store is fifiding an increase in Its facturers, BBC engineers are ac- ¡ 7 should be an exciting experience, plan to put him in TV every Tues- butter and egg business because tively engaged in the development ntihen, ballet is at a distinct disadvan- day night in addition to the radio 'oí a television set. "Everyone of light-weight television equipment zsThis was the case with the program program on Friday. While he was brings butter and eggs to the for remote broadcasts. Aim of the •!5ted by the Ballet Theater over NBC reluctant all along to agree to more store with the new fangled de- project is to extend the scope of )rr nite. Too often, through no fault than two video shows a month, vice" reports our correspondent. these operations and to increase itlr own, the dancers looked like small, Pabst almost sold him on the idea The nearest movie theater at the speed with which equipment b'red dolls. Considering the limitations of doing TV full time. A month ago Celina reports a drop in business can be set up so that spot news i tl medium, however, the program was Warwick & Legler, the Pabst agency, because TV at the country store events can be picked up. ic.-d as well as could be expected. In has westerns on Monday and notified NBC that it wanted 9:30 In particular, engineers report, it ajor work, the delightful "La Filie p.m. Tuesday for a television pro- Friday. Ranchers and farmers, klardee," director Garry Simpson wise- however, say they won't buy an improved radio relay link has gram starting July IS and that been developed to transmit signals i eiewed close-ups for the most part. Cantor would take over Oct. 4. a set until the price is down E ncentrated on a medium-long shot to SI00. from cameras in the field to Alex- iiit the dancers, not the cameras, sup- "Artistic Impossibility" andra Palace for airing. irS movement. Camera closed in only In the final analysis, the comedian BBC engineers said the equip- itr there was little or no action, and said it would be an "artistic impos- ment, which works on the short 1ST shots were highly effective. . . . sibility" to do a regular radio show wavelength of four-and-a-half cen- iü'thcr work was the short classic, and a television program simulta- timeters, is now being tested. Clear file Quatre." Here brief use of super- neously. He further declared he July 15 Tele Bow pictures free from all interference fitfion—a . medium shot of the four won't be ready for full..time TV are presently being received over i-cs over a long shot—was very inter- until the fall of 1950. Cantor's radio a distance of seven miles, they said, Vi Occasionally, however, Simpson cut show for Pabst is scheduled to end For WBT Charlotte and it is believed that equal results the ballerinas in half as she was June 24. can be achieved at distances of 20 —a major offense on any dance "The Life of Riley," which Procter Charlotte, N. iC.-^Tuly 15 has ibeen miles or more. I;'. . . Program was produced by Victor & Gamble previously announced it set as the kick-off date for WBIT-TV, Advantages of these extremely lid. Dmitri Romanoff, of Ballet Thca- would drop at the end of this sea- first station here. A basic ICBS af- short wavelengths, the engineers Kiged both works, and Max Gobcrman son, has been acquired by Pabst filiate, station will carry programs said, is that the antenna can con- p-ited the NBC orchestra. Don Pike from Irving Brecher for radio and from all four nets on a non-inter- centrate the signal into a very nar- pi'chnical director. TV presentation next fall. The ra- connected Ibasis. row beam. Both transmitting and dio show, which stars William Ben- Station is owned and operated by receiving equipment, they added, is dix, will move up one hour to Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Co., light and very easy to carry. MORDING TO actor William Prince, Cantor's time spot and be heard at a subsidiary of Jefferson Standard ho stars in "Suspense" over CBS 9 p.m., EST, Fridays. Televised ver- Life Insurance Co., of Greensboro. W TV drama should prove to be the sion of "Riley" will originate in iCharles H. Crutchfield is manager. Motorola Dealers Sign invaluable schooling ground for actors New York with another cast. Operating on channel 3, WBT-TV's KGO-TV Service Bouts £ 'ie profession has known because of transmitter is mounted on a 503- P'rueling rehearsal schedules. "Any foot tower atop Spencer Mountain, San Francisco—Motorola Dealers p'twill tell you that he learns to act WGN-TV Sells Golf Seg 14 miles from Charlotte near the of Northern California have signed i r?arsal," Prince said. "The more ic- Chicago — "Pars, Birdies and South 'Carolina (border. Antenna is with KGO-TV for sponsorship of F-'ls the better, especially when you Eagles," new golf series featuring 1807 feet above sea level and 1294 Army, Navy and Air Force boxing M ying up for a one-shot performance pros Jimmy Hines and Johnny Re- feel above surrounding terrain. bouts originating from the Treasure !"ist has to be right." He feels that volta, bows on WGN-TV Monday Engineers estimate that the station Island gymnasium in San Francisco factors in other media have gotten under sponsorship of St. Andrews will provide satisfactory coverage to : Bay. Tommy Grecnhow will be be- J ':ipccially in Hollywood where most and Mission Hills golf courses. Bob approximately 1,000,000 persons liv- hind the mike. i'ig is done In short lakes and scenes McKee will emcee the half hour ing within 50 miles of the' trans- I* peatcd many times. "But the pace show. Herbert S. Laufman will Contract, signed by W. J. Lan- mitter. Authorized power is 10.3 caster & Co., Motorola distributors, I -vision is completely different. There produce the series. kw. video, and 8.2 kw. audio. t; covers half of the pickups through t tryouts, no chances to improve your "nance the next night. You have to Sept. 29. >"• right. Best thing in the world that's ' 'uppencd to actors," he said, and Four-Way Tele Celebration ''"rent back to rehearsal. Bait. Nears 60,000 Baltimore—April sales of sets in Planned By WBKB June 16 the Baltimore area have brought the total to 57,035, according to a J(?GE AND GOWER CHAMPION survey just completed by the Balti- lave returned from vacation and will Chicago — A mammoth television Third, initial telecast of a special more Television Circulation Com- 'the last Admiral show before hiatus celebration by WBKB, Balaban and star-studded Chicago Theater stage mittee. Sales for the month amount- I. They may not be on the show lvnt7. pioneer station, will be held revue dircct from the theater. ed to 0,159 sets, the report stated. f ' Fall, however, as a stanra of their June 10. it -.vas announced yester- Fourth, the premiere oí theater ' . planned. ... Art Ford. WNEW day by John Bnlnbnn, director of tele in the midwest by moans of cl, bcr.ins an hour-lanr, variety show the outlet. It will comprise four a transcription system by Para- WPIX Sells Movie Show " VPIX Saturday, II p.m. . . . Rudy major parts. First, celebration of mount, just installed in the theater. 1 Meltoway Reducing Plan, Tnc., has hai signed Clill Steward to produce the ei;;hih anniversary of WBKB, On night of premiere many slars picked up the tab for "Hollywood l ol films for Vallcc Video on the Cnica r.o'f. first station. Sccond. and leading civic figures will be In New York,' weekly movie news . . . NBC may scan the U. S. Open WBKB will officially start opera- interviewed at entrance to the the- and interview show with I^ois Wil- ' urnamcnt and the Pou^hlccpsic rc- tion of a new RCA 5-dav super- ater and sixty seconds later nota- son, over WPIX. Sponsorship tie- tumstik- Iranr-mlttcr 700 feet tall. bles sec themselves on screen. irnn May 21.