Word: ktla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven years ago Los Angeles' enterprising KTLA mounted a mobile TV camera, began offering its viewers on-the-spot coverage of major news events. Among them: atom bomb explosions on Yucca Flat, a Sante Fe train wreck, an earthquake in California, the ordeal of little Kathy Fiscus trapped in the bottom of a well. Last week KTLA announced triumphantly that it had succeeded in building a TV camera into a helicopter, the world's first commercial airborne unit...
...telecopier" represented three years of planning and experimentation. The 2,000-lb. weight of a standard camera and transmitter would require a helicopter too bulky to be agile. Under Chief KTLA Engineer John Silva's supervision, designers kept whittling away, brought the weight down to 368 lbs., which a Bell G-2 helicopter could easily handle. The two-man crew was picked for their light weight and warned to stay thin. The pilot doubles as observer, and the copilot does everything else, including aiming and setting the camera. Silva and G.E. engineers solved the transmitting problem by tacking...
...transmitting, the copter must remain within line-of-sight range of the Mount Wilson receiver. But within that range, KTLA will offer its viewers close-up looks at everything from traffic tie-ups to mountainside rescues, crew races and forest fires...
...Special Events Director Bill Welsh, 46, was tipped off on the story only 15 minutes after it broke. He alerted a mobile unit that fortunately was operating near the scene on another story, scurried into action himself with a second stand-by crew. Well behind came a crew from KTLA, rival of the Los Angeles Times-controlled KTTV, but it never...
...turned the trick in 1947 over Los Angeles station KTLA, and Pantomime Quiz has been on and off TV ever since. There have been few changes in format. M.C. Stokey hands out actable "stumpers" (e.g., "Hand your teeth to me, grandma, I'm putting the bite on a friend") to competing four-man teams, each made up of two name actors and two pretty actresses. The player who gets the stumper acts it out with passion and abandon while his three teammates have only two minutes to supply the words. Stokey has speeded up the game with the invention...