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...Angeles' independent KTLA, the first station to televise an atomic-bomb explosion (TIME, May 5, 1952), last week unveiled what may turn out to be a fissionable little package for TV's idea-starved programmers. The show is nothing more than good old Bingo, dressed up in a new name-Marco-and given a dog-food manufacturer (Thoro-Fed) for a sponsor instead of the Ladies' Aid Society. But it has one great advantage over most audience-participation shows: every home viewer can compete every week...
...fills it out by writing his own combination of numbers in the blank spaces (e.g., in the five blanks in the "M" column he may write any numbers from 1 to 25; under the "A" column, any from 26 to 50). He sends the completed card to KTLA, keeping a duplicate for himself...
...February 1951, Los Angeles' KTLA set up a camera on Mt. Wilson, 300 miles from Frenchman's Flats, Nev., and televised a blast for local audiences...
...main problem for Klaus Landsberg, 35, general manager of Los Angeles' KTLA, was circuits. Even A.T. & T., which supplies cross-country TV lines, said last month that there was not enough time to set up relays for the big show. Landsberg, who has been working with electronics for more than half his life, decided to try the 264-mile relay to Mt. Wilson anyway. Landsberg's daring plan...
...From Mt. San Antonio, about 23 miles to KTLA's transmitter atop Mt. Wilson, and from there across the U.S. via coaxial cable...