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...Washington, the Federal Communications Commission authorized the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to link the east and west coasts with the first transcontinental TV circuit. In addition to the coaxial cable, A.T. & T. will build 55 microwave relay stations between Omaha and San Francisco. Until the $37 million circuit is completed in 1952, east and west will see each other's programs only on milky TV recordings...
...could only hope," he added, "that electrical phenomena would produce the same result in our coaxial cable system. We haven't done any testing, however, so we know nothing about the situation in our outlying districts...
There are other advantages. The film can be used, in place of "watery" and generally unsatisfactory television recordings, on stations not connected to the coaxial cable. There is also a saving in actors' salaries, since rehearsal time is cut in half. And through a special processing of the film, Fairbanks has eliminated the washed-out quality common to most movies...
Since the FCC quietus, WHRB engineers have been engaged in modifying the transmission system to reduce field strength and shielding and repairing the defective transmitter to cut down radiation leakage. Most of the work has gone into running the coaxial cable system into Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop, which had not yet been converted...
Throughout the rest of Europe, TV development ranges from the prenatal to the spoon stage. The Netherlands has an experimental station at Eindhoven and is planning another. Soviet Russia boasts transmitters at Leningrad and Moscow and is still at work on a coaxial cable to link them up with Kiev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals. Russians seem to have reached the second phase in television: they are beginning to complain about it. In a recent letter to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, carping Reader Vladimir Savochkin demanded more TV sets, more and better programs, spare parts for fans who are building...