European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Television sportscaster Bob Edge synchronizes basketball commentary with projection by Jaid of Monitor screen reflection. $ television it s Here a one of the present drawbacks of television is the limitation which other entertainment Indus i tries place upon it. It features soap operas quiz shows disc jockeys and Kibird rate movies sporting events of All. Kinds enter the Home via television. In the Large . Cities almost every bar has a television set As do Heaters and movie houses. I inc covers major sporting highlights with roving Tel visors. Television is not threat to radio As it is to the movies most networks own. Television studios. Starting this season All of the new York giants an the Brooklyn dodgers will be Tele Vised. The giants sponsor remembering the sad experience of the razor Blade people last fall has gone so far As to. Buy up and make Blank the Polo grounds entire billboard space to make sure no advertiser gets a free ride. A natural for video has been boxing the set is simple the focusing is easy since the Center of attraction is two persons in a relatively Small space boxing programs Are far and away the favourites. They have also caused the unforeseen phenomenon of the television screen s becoming a virtual necessity for any bar that wants. To keep it customers. Chatta a going to do. Mac says one Salon keeper. It invest a couple thousand or close the generally the screen is setup High at one end of the room and the audience is seated for the Friday nightlights according to purchases. The Reg ular scotch drinkers Are ushered upfront followed by the bonded whiskey customers and so through the bleacher seats for the random Beer drinkers. This rigid cast system has made scotch lovers out of countless Beer towers. A whole school of television and bar jokes bloomed and. Faded in the shortest possible time. The subject was neatly wrapped up and Laid for Good by a new yorker cartoon. Their caption less Cut showed a group of youngsters of Pigtail and marbles age draped overprint sized stools in a milk bar watch \ across a 6 ing Mickie mouse prance television screen. \ most of television s news Broad-3.casting is confined to out " Well in Advance political speeches parades and ceremonies the same sort things that newsreels cover. However where newsreels can be taken to a Cut Ting room and edited for effective showing the television camera must broadcast Ini mediately what it sees and "5often the programs become pretty Dull. Seldom does video get a real news beat As it did in 1937 when London television viewers saw on their screens the mad Man that broke through police lines and started to make an attempt on King. George i s life. This june both parties presidential i conventions will be telecast thus presenting politicians with the prob Lem of Locking Well in addition to speaking Well. Millions of Homes Willnow be Able to see what the campaigner looks like from Only a foot or two away the television people think it May have As profound an effect on politics As radio did. Some gop aspirants have made preliminary tests. Taft s Mobile features televise Well technicians have noted and Stassen in profile is better tha Stassen full face. Dewey s moustache of they report highlights his. Face probably the most non committal thing anyone s Ever said about the governor moustache. One Abc executive " says More americans have seen president Truman by television in one. Evening ". Weekend. Maya
