Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
CHAIN TELEWS|ON
SEEN FOR FUTURE
Visual Radio Expected to
Arrive as Result of
Experiments.
BY ROBERT MACK.

Chain television, like chain broad
casting of today, Will be offered the
public when visual radio arrives as a
secnmercialr mode of entertainment.
This is the view of Harry G. Butcher,
director of the Washington Office of the
Columbia Broadcas;ing System. Column
bia L. seeking to break into the field
nf experimental television so that it will
Be prepared to bring competition into
It, once it becomes commercially feasible
and emerges from the laboratory a fin
1shed product.
Seeks .N.w York Station.
Supported by the powerful Para
n,ount-Publix Corporation and with an
eye to the future, Columbia is asking
the Federal Radio Commission tor au-
thortty to establish its own experimental
television station in New York. Thus
It would be enabled to keep abreast of
the art and throw into play its own
engineering organization to hasten the
development of visual radio
Strangely, Columbia proposes to use
the apparatus of the Radio-Victor Cor
poration, affiliated with the National
Broadcasting Co., for its television sta
ton. The N. B. c. is the nationwide
broadcast network competitive with
Columbia and the one which Columbia
likely will have to oppose in visual
transmission. A television engineer of
the Radio-Victor experimental staff
has been detailed by his company to
be consulting television engineer for
Columbia.
Paramount Affiliated.
All this was told to the commission
In connection with Columbia's request
for It's first experimental television sta
ton, which would be located in the
heart Of downtown New York. Column
bia is seeking the license for the At
lantic Broadcasting Corporation, a sub
gidiary, which is largely its engineering
organization
Paramount owns a one-half interest
IN Columbia. Well-known actors and
actresses, as well as stage effects and
furnishings Of the Paramount Co., will
be available for the experimental use
Of Columbia In projecting images
through space, Mr.. Butcher told the
commission.
Radio and Pictures Aided.
"T1aus," he said, two great enter
tainment industries. motion pictures
and radio broadcasting, will be brought
closer together for practical develop
Inent of television."
Columbl4S plan Is TO purchase the
n. G. A. television transmitter and ex-
detrimental receiving sets and to get
It. initial training In the visual art
from the Victor Co. Then It proposes
to proceed In its own way, using the
talent, resources and facilities not only
Of It's own engineering staff, but of
Paramount. Many radio engineers are
employed by the motion picture pro-
ducers. because the mechanics of the
s'talkies" are nothing more than wired
radio.
Solutions Foreseen.
from M A. Trainer, television engi-
neer of Victor, who has been assigned
a consiiltant for Columbia, the COM
mission learned Of progress In television
within the Victor Laboratories at Cam
den. The apparatus developed by his
company, he said, complies with the
highest standards now observed IN the
axt and has practically exhausted the
immediate possibilities Of laboratory de-
velopment.
Probably the greatest Improvement
"a televisiOn Nof today" he said. "iS to
BE- found In the elimination Of the diff
cuties inherent In the radio transmits
sion medium itself, and I believe the
next step is to place this equipment In
actual functioning daily use on the air.
In this manner the problems inherent
IN the transmission medium can be
studied and the solution ultimately IA
cilitated."
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