With Complete TV Schedules for ROCHESTER, BUFFALO and SYRACUSE Now Combined With CONVENTION STORY ROCHESTER WHIRL Page 4 July 5-11 , *1952 MAGAZINE TELEVISION'S Biggest Show Newsmen Use TV Ll FE New Walkie-Talkie Western New York's Officio/ TV · New. vastly-improved walkie-talkie sets with Rodio ond Entertoinment Mogozine two-way transmission, especially designed for the occasion. will be used by newsmen Vol. 2 ~ 12 No. 17 roving the Boor of the International Amphi­ Owned ond Published by theatre in Chicago for interviews during the ROBERT H. PEIFFER ASSOCIATES Republican and Democratic conventions. 16 State St., Rochester 14, N.Y. With these walkie-talkie sets TV news­ men will be able to roam the vast convention P hone BAker 0513 Boor at will. unencumbered by trailing cables and keeping the television audience in con­ Editor .. .. ... .. ..... ... Bob Peiffer stant contact with every activity. Spotting Photographer . .... Len Campagna arriving Presidential aspirants. parry spokes­ men and news-worthy delega•es, the n ~ws­ men can call for an available cam?ra and JULY 5 - 11, 1952 ;.:ut him immediately O!l th e air. The portables, weighing 5Y2 pounds each. TV Lite is published weekly of Roc!les ler, distinct refinements over those used during New York. Subscription price $5.00 per the Philadelphia conventions in 1948. They year, in advance. are lighter and handle easier. They consist of three seperate units, a transmitter and microphone assembly, a battery component. and a cue recelver which links the bearer IF YOURS IS A TV HOME privately with the control or newsroom. 11 The transmittt.>r is 2 by 6 inches. weighs YOU NEED \\TV UFE 22Yz ounces. It broadcasts from a 6--inch removable antenna in the ultra-high freqency band bl'tween 450 and '!52 megacycles. It contains audio, regulator and oscillator tubes of the sub-miniature type. Its range in line of sight is about two blocks. The power unit is JY2 by 6 by 10 inches and weighs 3 lbs. 5),1 ounces. It reposes in a Hat container that is suspended from the shoulder by a strap. Its power output is 1/ 10 of a watt. capable of three hours of continuous use. lt can instantly be discon­ nected from the transmitter and a fresh unit plugged in. At Philadelphia. the transmitter and power components were combined in one unit. Carried in the hand. it was fatiguing to bearers. The cue receiver is in a box 1 by 2 by 4 inches and weighs 12Yz ounces. l t is carried in the lapel pocket. A wire which connects it to a button earphone serves as both antenna and cord attachment. The re­ ceiver has its own 26-megacycle transmitter located near the control or newsroom. It has three tubes and functions continuously for 100 hours. As in the case of the trans­ mitters, the cue receivers at the Philadelphia conventions were comparatively bulky and Now is the time foe a weighty. Glamocgcaph by the The new CBS-TV portables are bt>li~?ved to be the first equipment of their type to LEN CAMPAGNO STUDIO be employed in the 450--152 megacycle band. 133 Clinton Ave. S. • BAker 4431 CBS-TV coverage of the conventions is sponsored by W estinghouse Electric Corp. Press Time Flashes FRIDAY, JUlY 4th 7:30--This Is Show Business. A hand of wet­ come is extended by Clifton Fodiman to 8:30--We the People. Eisenhower delivers a hh talented guests: singer, Evvelyn Brooks; special Independence Day address. comedian, Jock E. leonard and dancer, 9 :30--Daorwoy to Danger. A new series star· Belly Bruce, on this th 11 lost program of ring Roland Winters and dramatizing Govl. the season. Agents in the fight against ln ternatianot 9:00-TV Playhouse. "leal Out Of A Book," crime and intrigue. >lory of a career woman'> rivalry starring 10:00-The Sports Reel. Replacing "Cavalcade Claudia Morgan and lauren Gilbert. of Sports" for the summer. 1o,OO--Celebrity Time. Twa musical virtuosos­ 10:30--Groatest Fights of the Century. Filmed Benny Goodman on the clarinet and Yehudi bo•ing bout, Ceferino Garcia vs. Henry Menuhin on violin-join host Conrad Nagel Armstrong (2nd fight) Manh 1, 1940. lor a program of fun ond music. • 11 :45-Charlic Wild. "The Case of Jennifer" wherein Charlie visits the ballet. MONDAY, JUlY 7th SATURDAY, JUlY 5th 8:00--lux Videa Theatre. " The lady From Wo..1hington." 12:~ig Tap. The Three Sidneys, high-wire 9:00-My little Margie. Charles Farrell and bicycle act; the Ricandys, Swedish tramp­ Gale Storm star in this new comedy serie.. oline perfarmerJ; Leo and Jasept,ino Casco, Margie pretends she is an 11 -yeor-old, acrobats; Jimmy Troy, Clown Trapeze act; gawky brat, while on o blind dote with The Four Angels, acrobats and Helen on Englishman. Haag's Chimpanzees. 11 ,15-Police Story. IIi chord Bishop stan in 6:00--Mr. Wizard. EKploins everyday phenam· 'The Miami Case." eno with Dan Herbert. 8:00--AII Star Revue. Variety program with TUESDAY, JULY 8th guest stors Jimmy Savo, Connie Boswell, 1: 15-Aii-Star Baseball Game, Coast-to-coast Betty ond Jane Kean, Piero Brothen, and pr,.sentation by the Glll~>lto Covaltade of tho Thru Rockets and Oliver Wokefleld; with Mr. Bollontine os emcee. Sports. 9:00--.Biind Dote. Alene Francis is mistress of WEDNESDAY, JULY 9th ceremonies when six young men vie for 11 :IS-Montgomery Presents. "Tilt Ne.d We dotes with three young ladies. Meet" with Barbaro Britlon playing the 9:30--Solurdoy Night Dancing Party. Jerry Les­ part of an unhappy rich girl who falls in ter emcees the show featuring one of our best orche>lros. love with " reporter. SUNDAY, JUlY 6th THURSDAY, JULY 10th 8.00-The Best of Groucho. The best shows of 4 :30--Zao Parade. Director Perkins will tell as the past seaton ore seen again. well as show many interesting things about 9:30--Mr. Peepers. Wally Cox stars in this tho habitant of the Deer. situation comedy. 7:00 Royal Showcase. 10:00-Martin Kane. Mystery with lee Tracy. CONVENTION COVERAGE IS liSTED ON PAGE 18 ---------.. ................ SUBSCRIBE TODAY Enjoy every exciting issue - Get • Accurate Schedules TV LIFE • News and Picture Highlights • Radio end TV Personalities 16 State Street, Rochester 4, N.Y. • Area Entertainment Features Genllem~tn• Please enter my subscription to ROCHESTER TV liFE for one year for which I enclose $5.00- A saving of $5.40 on the Single Copy Price. MY NAME .. ADDRESS ... ZONE 3 TELEVISION'S BIGGEST SHOW ACT An artist's conception oJ Chicago's International Amphitheatre where, under Philco sponsorship, NBC television ond radio will provide tHe most extensive coverage In hi>tory of the Republfcon and Dem ­ ocratic political conventjans. Prominently displayed ore NBC's brond-~ew "walkie-talkie.'' o portable TV camera in tended for use at the convention•. and the "TY newsroom on wheels:· o self-powered, self-contained transmitter which con broadcast electronic pictures from four TV cameros as well o~ fllm• developed inside the mobile unit. NBC-TV cameros and radio !llicrophones wili be placed >lrotegicolly throughout the main hall of the Amphitheatre. NBC's convention news headquarter> end studios will be loca ted in the north wing of the Ampllitheotre. Three hundred >pecioliots using $1.500,000 of the toted equipment will wcrk night and day to give the notion complete coverage. Flem.ing, Ben Grauer, Richard Harkness, THE NEXT PRESIDENT of the United Rel Henle, Bill Henry, George Hicks, H. V. States wiU be picked by the largest turn­ Kaltenborn, Bob Lt>tts, Leon Jearson, Elmo out of vo'tl'rs in American history~Jargely Roper, John Cameron Swayze, Clifton Utley, because television has brought the candi­ Ed Wallace and others will describe even~ dates right into our homes and t:l't>mendously on the floor of Chicago's International Am­ increased the interest of the electo rat~: . phitheatre and the behind-the-scenes political This increased interest in the election is maneuvers. Elizabeth Van Wagoner Tufty, reHected by record primary vote totals and noted Washington columnist, will be a con• record advance poll tax paymeots in such ven tion ~timc addition to NBC's news staff. statl's as Virginia. WitJ1 weather pel'mitting, Martha Rountree and Lawrence Spivak, the all-time United States record of 48.- co- producers of "Meet the Press"; and 836,759 voters, ~et in the 1948 Presidential Theodore Granik, producer of "American election, will be surpa.ssed next November. Forum of the Air" and "Youth Wants to ACT I Know."' together witb their production staffs, July 7th marks Act I of TV's Big Pro­ will be in Chicago to create_yrograms in duction when millions of Avwrican voters addition to P hilco-sponsored NBC coverage throughout the country will have front-row of the actual conventions. !>Cats for the Republican Convention. Latest-model equipment worth $1.500.000 Philco Corporation will .sponsor NBC's will be moved to Chicago. where such out­ combined convention coverage on both tele­ standing programs as the "Camel News Car­ Vision and radio. avan'" will originate along with the 60 hours William R. McAndrew, NBCTV director of special convention broadcasts. RCA's of Public Affairs, will be in complete charge newly developed "walkie-lookie" a portable of the network's staff of 300, including 25 TV camera, iS intended for use at the Re ~ nott>d commentators. Morgan Bt>atty, W. W . publican and Democratic conclaves. The net-- Chaplin, Bob Considine, Alex Drier, James (Continued on Poge 15) Willlant R. McAndrew (at right), in charge of NBC"s most complete convention covera~e history, outlloes the network's radio and TV plans for the Republican and Democratic conventions in Chicago to (left to right) Davidson Taylor, NBC-TV general productton executive; William F.