Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1949 — Page 40
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Actors of Great Political Drama to Be Seen on Screen
Times Special NEW YORK, May 21--—At a time when no matter in which! direction we: turn we are con-| fronted by a world problein of immediate and often direct interest for the United States, tele-; vision seems to be made to order to simplify the tasks of all those who in some way are connected with these developments. i It is too early to consider television as a conveyor of pictorial events from distant lands where things happen in a big way. It is only a question of time, however, when we shall be able to
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witness on our home sets such a thing as the opening of Parlia-| ment in London, or the celebra-: tion of May Day in Moscow's Red! Square. From Every Region Gradually the newsreel will become vocal from every region of the earth apd technological progress will do the rest. Meanwhile, a great deal should be done now to prepare us for the television developments still to come. Some of us who did our initial broadcasting a quarter of a ‘century ago—when we had to appear before the microphone at least in dinner jacket if not in tails—will have to go back. to the old techniques. There will be more justification this time when radio speakers and commentators will have to be geen as well as heard, Television, in so far as commentary and lecturing is concerned, will see the end of reading from a manuscript and the
cast. No Labored Reading Few audiences will care to see their idols laboring through typescripts. when others will be trained to tell their stories freely as if addressing a group of friends. While this transitional process is taking place, newscasting and radio comment will gain by the combination of the use of large and properly made maps and drawings, giving more substance ~ to the subject and making it more interesting, People no longer will be dividing their time between listening to a broadcast on Saud! Arabia or Argentina and following the speaker on a handy atlas or map. Television will supply both the speaker and the map. Eye on Politicians Taking in another field, fit will be possible for a disillusioned electorate free usioned| electorate 3%: a free democracy 10 "watch on a television. set session of a City Cn a State Higsiature, and of Congress itself, “The actors of our great political drama will be seen as they really are and nof as gqur imagination likes to picture them. $ Television in all probability will enhance the prestige of forceful speakers and of convincing statesmen, while proportionately lowering the Hooperatings of innocuous. yes-men and the great silent and ineffective majorities . that often do little if anything to promote the progress of a vigorous democracy. This is the age of adult education on a scale never before imagined or attempted,
See 40 Million vs Sets
Television will serve more than 40 million peaple in the 140 principal U, 8. markets within the xt five years and will develop to a $600 million receiver sales business at retail value at that time, according to a recent estimate by Arthur A, Brand, general sales manager at General Electric's Electronics Park, Syra-
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I Vidéo siations in New X ork. 370-route miles of radio relay. work in October of that same
high and TV frequencies are very hig a,
substitution of the spoken broad-|Versa.
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Complicated Processes Will Link Indianapolis With Cities in East
SOMETIME NEXT year you may have a ringside seat at the|1948. Then, by a coaxial cable
Stork Club or “South Pacific” with chair. That is when Indianapolis may shows direct from the East Coast.
The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will link the larger special premier Jan, 11, 1949.
cities in much the same manner as they are linked by radio. The process, however, Bell Telephone, \ officials said yesterday, is much) e
not suitable ‘ for television as they are for radio transmission.
the loss in transmission over ordinary telephone lines is so great that amplifying equipment would be needed every mile or less, Telephone officials said that telecast programs would interfere telephone conversations and vice
Two Principal Methods Two principal. methods are used in television network transmission. One method uses under-
| York and Washington Ww was inaugurated over Bell System fa-
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tended the New York-Washington cable facilities will be constructed ‘network northward to Boston in
with| Was connected to the network hy coaxial cable from Washington a few months later.
tercity television service to a new region when televisions stations in seven major Midwestern cities
~—Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, De troit, Milwaukee, Chicago and St. |: Louis-—were linked together by a network that opened B8ept. 20
out getting out of your fireside link between Philadelphia and Cleveland via Pittsburgh, th
expect “live” network television Fatsern network was united to the Midwestern network during a
Extends Over 2100 Miles Covering an area where oneServices at the Lincoln|fourth of the nation’s population were televised and lives, this combined network now, extends over 2100 miles—1740route miles of coaxial cable and
lities.
In 1949 about 850 new route miles of radio relay and some 300
Using radio relay, engineers ex- additional route miles of coaxial
and placed in service for intercity television. The Bell System teleNovember, 1047, and Richmond vision networks will then extend'% over 3250 miles and link togethe 27 cities, EB The largest new area scheduled #& to be linked with the present Bell i System network lies south of Toledo, 0, A coaxial cable is now under construction between To-
The Bell System brought in-
ground coaxial cable and the other a series of radio relay towers. Each requires more time
lines and each may be used for
long distance telephone trans- To John Public
mission.
Television Brings to install than ordinary telephone New Vocabulary
ledo, Dayton and Cincinnati, while towers for radio relay soon| will be erected between Dayton and Columbus O., and Dayton and Indianapolis. The network will be extended from Indianapolis by using coaxial cable.
Coaxial cables, about two
inches in diameter, usually €on-\y ‘hawt hy micro-wave and in part by coaxial cable.”
tain eight copper tubes the size of a lead pencil. Through the centers of these tubes run copper wires,
the size of pencil lead which are... held in place by insulating discs. throw you.
the telecast.
The tube and wire have a common axis, That is why they are called coaxial, The more recently dreloped method, the radio relay, uses a series of towers, spaced 25 to 50 miles apart. This system uses microwaves which travel In straight lines and do not follow
¥ Waves are.
Towers Are Similar The towers, except for height, | ———— are similarly designed-—aquare, concrete structures with space for emergency .power equipment and storage batteries on the first floor, radio equipment on the isecond. Special microwave antennas which send and receive signals, are on the roof. Towers range in height from 60 to 200 feet, the shorter ones on hilltops. But those to be used in crossing the flat land of northern Indiana this year will be from 150 to 300 feet high. Both cable and towers are equally effective. Plans call for the networks to come into Indianapolis next year by radio re lay from Dayton, O., and the network will be extended from here to Louisville by coaxial cable. - Bell System video networks now include nearly 5000 miles of television channels connecting 14 major cities from the east coast to the Mississippi River. These grew from a 95-mile coaxial cable strung from Neéw York to Philadelphia in 1936. On Feb. 12, 1946, regular netNew
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Rose Bowl Telecast On the West Coast, under the Bell System program, two television channels will be placed in Well, that should clear things|gervice between Los fo and |; p. But if it doesn’t, don't letigan Francisco in time for the eloquent technical talkinext Rose Bowl football game, |} You can still enjoy; ~One- ofthe. problems of tele- |g vision is the extension of service to rural areas, A television signal normally is
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Prepared for. TV
‘Schedule Planned Here One Year Ago
Television sets were introduced into Indianapolis on a carefully prepared schedule to avoid the disappointment of
The Electric League of Indianapolis, Ine, more than a year ago decided to withhold television sets . {from the Indianapolis market until sustained programs were assured. Albert L. Maillard, president of
up a television educational program to make sure it would fulfill the expectations of buyers.
Held Electric Living Show
early set!
the league, and other officers, set!
Man Who Twirls the Dials
Controls TV Scene Value television 8 how lack subtlety in lighting etocts,
' That is the burden of complaint of of one television - “The end-product,” he s: gineer nor of anyone in the studio. It's in the hands of the man who twirls the dials on the Tecelving set.” He explained: Bn we have a scene with 'a murderer skulking In a candle-lit cellar. Tt has taken the works of a designer and engineers to set up that scene so that it has beauty of modeling and perfection in light and shadow. “That's the way it goes out over the air. And that's the way. a receiver can show it. But just one small twist of the brightness knob’ and, kaput! the damage is done! The receiving screen shows the scene as brightly lighted as if it were being playss n broad daylight.”
Al Smith Made 1stTelevision Signal Political Telecast Satvjes “1100 Miles *,
The first political telecast took dinarily is only 50 miles.
They held ‘the Electric Living|
to introduce sets to prospects when WFBM-TV announced it} would be on the air by May 30. The nine divisions of the league, covering utilities, contractors and
utors, manufacturers and manu-|
oil heat and maintenance,
therough launching.
member organization are C. H. Dombhoff,
tractor and’ contractor dealer; Tom Beecher; supply distributor;
manufacturer's agents;
tenance.
Show at the Coliseum this spring! {telecast was Al Smith who was been picked up—and elear
contractor dealers, supply distrib-
facturer’s agents, appliance distributors, dealers, motor repair, co-| ordinated their efforts to give television a well-timed and
Other officers of the 230- frm
vice president; H. H. Bauck, secretary; Louis Randle, assistant secretary; A. C. Crandall, utility; Harry Claffey, con-|
Fred Gilchrist, manufacturer and Hayes Hollibaugh, appliance distributor;
motor repair; F. J. Schuster, oil heat, and George Kintner, main-
place at the assembly chamber in Albany, N. Y. in 1928. casting System reports that its And the principal figure in thetejevision signal in New York % has shown delivering his speech ac-|_1100 miles away in hry Rock, |cepting the Democratic nomina- Ark. {tion for President. TV engineers explain it this A TV camera was installed in way: TV waves, after penetrat|the assembly chamber and byl/ing the ionosphere (a layer of {remote pickup, the telecast was| “air” surrounding the earth) {sent to the laboratories of the sometimes are reflected back to
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