Abstract

Television Comes of Age

This article talks about television broadcasting in the U.S. during 1944. In July 1941, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved certain standards for the television industry and assigned a portion of the radio spectrum to it. Eight stations started operations of a limited and experimental nature. It is possible to increase the television image up to larger dimensions, say, eighteen by twenty-four inches, which is generally considered the best size for home use. But the picture will be somewhat coarse-grained, inferior in clarity and definition to sixteen-millimeter home motion-picture films. This is because telecasting is limited to a band of six megacycle. Columbia Broadcasting System has proposed that television be moved up into the ultra-high frequencies.