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Hottest program news of all: after many a song & dance about it, Bing Crosby had decided to sign with Philco. Last week he sent them his terms, probably the steepest in radio history: 1) $35,000 for a weekly half-hour program; 2) the right to transcribe some shows. The reason: he might want to be somewhere else at broadcast time,* could record the program in advance...
...more important than Crosby's proposition was its corollary: if other radio stars followed his lead with transcriptions, any independent station would be able to air talent that only networks can now afford. If Philco accepts, the show will probably go on over ABC or Mutual. The big networks, NBC and CBS, have too much to lose; large-scale transcribing could rip them apart...
...said FCC, Philco, Crosley, CBS, the Blue Network, the Cowles Broadcasting Co.-the move ought to be made to avoid sunspot interference predicted a few years hence...
...television waves, unlike radio waves, are not reflected earthwards from the sky, no station can broadcast beyond its horizon (usually about 50 miles). Television impulses cannot be sent clearly by telephone wire, and coaxial cable, which does carry them, is unavailable because of the war. So to reach Philadelphia, Philco set up an automatic relay halfway between New York and Philadelphia. This picked up the telecast from NBC's Manhattan station WNBT, stepped it up to its original power, sent it on for rebroadcast from Philco's Philadelphia station WPTZ...
...relay, which Philco hopes to manufacture if it is adopted, worked well enough, but on prewar television receivers Eddie Cantor's stifled image was anything but clear...