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Television WiJ!Open SfaSiolWith civic, radio and stage celebrities participating, the Columbia Broadcasting System will officially open its experimental television station,W2XAB, at 10:15 P. M., E. S. T., Tuesday, July 21.The opening of the station follows several weeks of tests in which clear reception of W2-XAB’s signals was reported from cities as far away as Boston, Hartford, Baltimore, Camden, Schenectady and Philadelphia. Although sight transmission of the premiere program will be limited geographically to a comparatively small section along the Eastern seaboard, the sound transmission will be carried to most of the 85 outlets on the world’s largest network.Mayor James J. Walker, -*»f isTew York City, has been invited to lift the curtain from the photo-electric cells, formally marking Columbia’s expansion, to visual as well as audible entertainment.The station, W2XAB, is licensed experimentally by the Federal Radio Commission. It will operate in the channel from. 2,750 to 2.850 kilocycles with 500 watts power. Sixty-line scanningAt the outset no attempt willIn the same way, musical emphasis will be placed solely on an individual instnzment-alist-Experiments have been planned, however, toward the televising of trios’ quartets and orchestras. Bill Schudt, Jr., Acting Direc of Television Programs, likew intends to attempt the ’ trai mission of numerous iioveltiesuch as juggling, shadow p tures and dramas in pantomir The opening broadcast v have. sound outlets locally j only on WABC but on W23 Columbia short wave station, is planned to synchronize sou_ with sight daily, the usual sou outlet to be W2XE.
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Commerce Weekly Farm Journal
Commerce, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 24, 1931
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