Evening star., 1934-10-07

giant voice. latest product of the
acoustical laboratories that also pro-
duced modern radio.
HENRY FORD'S sponsorship of the
L l. world series over the combined
Nationwide networks, for which
he is paying 100000 to the clubs,
$4,000 of which will be divided among
the players of both teams, launches a
Fall and Winter sports season on the
radio that will find ace announcers
and commentators of the several net
works scurrying around the country.
In fact, the Fall gridiron broadcast
ing season has already started with
several network and more local broad
casts. Practically all of the inter-
collegiate conferences, with the eXcep-
ton of the Southern Conference, are
permitting the broadcasting of their
games. Some, particularly along the
Pacinfic Coast, are even permitting
sponsored broadcasts of the running
reports, the sponsors paying the COL
lege and university athletic associ-
ations for the privilege.
Foot ball really will go into full
swing, however, after the world series
is over, for not even the biggest inter-
sectional gridiron battle could take
precedence on the networks over the
all-absorbing world series. N. B. c..
has assigned Graham McNamee, Tom
Manning and Ford Bond to cover foot
ball as well as the world series, but
has not announced its schedule Of
games because it wants to keep it
flexible in order to take in the more
important games as the season de-
velops. c. B. S. is using Ted Husing
at the world series, with Pat Flana-
gan, of WBBM, Chicago, and France
Laux of KNOX, St. Louis, at his side.
Ted Husing will also cover most of the
l8 foot ball games scheduled by c. B.
S., together with Les Quailey as OBJ
server and statistician.
X X
DIG things are happening in the
- televiSion laboratories - bigger
perhaps than even the important
radio companies, with all their former
penchant for ballyhoo, are willing to
admit. When a keen observer like
o. H. Caldwell, the former Federal
radio commissioner, comedies that tel
evision is anything but a scientific
curiosity as yet, something must be
astir. DR.. Caldwell, now editor OF the
trade journal Radio Retailing and long
a skeptic about television's imminence,
reports:
Il have been slow to concede that
televison in its pre-1934 forms has
been anything but a crude scientific
curiosity. I have felt that the dim,
indistinct, fitting shadows we had
previously seen on televison screens
were far from the ultimate require
ments for popular entertainment.
But now new clarity of detail, new
brilliance of illumination is being OBJ
tanned as new processes come to the
front. Television systems of the scam
ning-disk, optical and cathode-ray
types are all making important ad-
vances in picture value. Before long
we shall have television with us in
real earnest-probably before con-
servative electrical and radio men
lully IedIl1e Ildt lie He" ody 10 dC
hand"
The more prominent television ex-
perimenters are guarding jealously
their work, swearing all who are privi-
legged to see their result to utter Sc
crecy. 1t is more than likely that Dr.
Caldwell has seen the newest in tele-
vision to lead him to make the fore
going statement. The big question
still in the minds of the big radio
companies is who will foot the bill for
televisions tremendously expensive
plant-vaStly more expensive than the
SIS, 600, 900 broadcasting structure 1t
is anybody's guess what this new art
will do to the entertainment world,
especially to the movies.