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...Four more manufacturers (Belmont, Webster, Muntz and the Television Equipment Corp.) broke ranks, joined Emerson, Celomat and Tele-tone in promising to make CBS color equipment. Tele-tone, with sets already in the works, said it would have quantity production by Jan. 1. Crowed CBS President Frank Stanton in full-page newspaper ads: "CBS welcomes Tele-tone-the first set manufacturer to bring you color television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Color War | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Urgent Voices | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...square feet of space in a huge, 20-story Hudson River warehouse, and set up shop. As production boss, Harvey Pokrass finally built an assembly line that could turn out a complete set every 40 seconds, set up a three-month training course for new workers. Harvey also kept Tele King ahead technically by being among the first to switch production to rectangular-tube sets and by developing cheaper cabinets. Remembering the PT-boat hulls molded from plywood, he got a PT-boat maker to turn out for Tele King "seamless" cabinets whose top and sides are molded from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Tele King's Tune-Up | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Time. To market this ever-mounting production, Harvey lined up Manhattan's mammoth Macy's department store to take a big part of Tele King production by offering prices which enabled Macy's to undersell "name" brands (Tele King's price range: $179.95 for 12-inch table models, to $399.95 for a 19-inch console and $499.95 for a 16-inch player combination). Soon, Tele King made similar deals with the May Co., one of the biggest U.S. retail chains, and many another big store and appliance dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Tele King's Tune-Up | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...full year of 1950 Tele King expects to produce 250,000 sets, gross at least $30 million. Still growing, Tele King this week took over part of another floor of the warehouse and set up a new assembly line to add 300 more workers. By June it expects to boost production to 1,200 sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Tele King's Tune-Up | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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