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...council also decided to write a letter to the FCC urging that one or more television channels remain unallocated so that they could be used by educational groups...
...When FCC made its color TV decision in favor of CBS (TIME, Oct. 23), RCA's scrappy Board Chairman David Sarnoff apparently did not hear the bell ending the fight. Last month he won a temporary injunction restraining the FCC decision. Last week, still in there swinging, he personally ran a demonstration of RCA's improved color TV system in Washington. More than 100 newsmen and businessmen saw color pictures that were brighter, more stable and had much better definition than any RCA color previously shown...
None of the FCCommissioners was invited to the demonstration, explained Board Chairman David Sarnoff, because RCA is currently engaged in litigation with FCC. Though well satisfied with the success of the demonstration, RCA was not yet ready to estimate the costs of its new tricolor tube receivers. Said Executive Vice President C. B. Jolliffe: "We do not pretend that RCA color is perfect . . . The great virtue of this all-electronic system is that it offers opportunity for continuing improvements. It does not have the limitations inherent in incompatible [i.e., CBS] systems...
...over his own network to demonstrate a CBS color wheel (for a 30-inch screen not yet on the market) and ridiculed the CBS system as giving "a Model-T type color picture." In full-page newspaper ads, Hallicrafters charged that "this ill-advised action of the FCC is a threat to the American way of life." A CBS suggestion that TV customers might wait six months before buying new sets had forced it out of business, declared Sightmaster Corp., which sued CBS for $750,000 damages. Admiral's vocal President Ross Siragusa says: "I just think...
...public doesn't know what to buy. Asked when he thought color TV would be seen generally throughout the U.S., CBS's Frank Stanton could give only an iffy answer. If the courts do not rule against CBS; if congressional probes do not hold up the FCC decision; if U.S. rearmament does not absorb the electronics industry; if there are no serious shortages of essential materials- waving away all these ifs, Stanton believes that color will be transmitted from all U.S TV stations by the end of 1952. That means that even if things move as fast...