Word: telecasters
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from Philadelphia, will get much of this week's air time, in both radio and television. All scheduled air programs are subject to cancellation or interruption with special bulletins. Each regular conference session (11 a.m. in the mornings, 9 p.m. in the evenings) will be broadcast and telecast by all networks. In addition, NBC and LIFE will present 60 hours of offstage telecasts-interviews, caucuses and color -between lively sessions and during dull ones. ABC, CBS and Du Mont telenets, and the four radio networks, have similar plans...
...beautiful and talented Mary Kay Stearns, who was recently crowned "Queen of Television?" . . . Mary Kay and her husband . . . have a pocket-size dramatis comedy . . . about newlyweds ... In response to their very first telecast they received over 8,000 letters...
...People (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS and CBS Television). The program's first simultaneous broadcast-telecast, with Fred Allen and Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3) as guests...
...vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver. The image...
Radiomen are worried by a recent NBC poll of homes that have both television and radio. Eight times as many people were tuned to a Theatre Guild telecast as were listening to radio's popular Fred Allen. Though some experts are already counting radio out, most think it will survive, if only as an auxiliary arm of television. Best guess: radio will be absorbed into the teleset. And there will still be programs for the 9,300,000 automobile radios, for housewives who are too busy to look, and for the blind...