Television Expansion In US.
Further expansion of television is planned in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed a programme which would permit setting up 2,245 transmitting stations in about 1,400 communities throughout the country. This compares with a present total of 70 stations, most of them in the eastern cities. Indicating the potential size of the audience to be served under the proposed programme, more than 2,200,000 television sets already are bringing pictures, words and music into American homes and offices and into restaurants and other public places. A major problem of the television industry—to adopt, new advances such as colour television without making present receivers obsolete—apparently has been eased by re-cently-announced developments., One is an inexpensive adapter that can be attached to present receivers, enabling' them to receive the programmes transmitted on ultra-high frequencies. Another development is a new system of transmitting television in full colour which is said to assure the continued usefulness of broadcasting stations and home receivers now in operation.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 50, 12 October 1949, Page 4
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