BROADCAST NEWS of April 1961
Die ausgewählten Artikel stammen aus der RCA Firmen-Zeitung vom April 1961 - Die Einführung beginnt hier.
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SPORTS, GREAT MUSIC, CHURCH PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHT WGN-TV HEAVY LIVE COLOR SCHEDULE
WGN-TV, Chicago's first post-war television station marked another milestone in 1960 when it became the first outlet to televise an entire schedule of major league baseball games in full color. All home games of the Cubs and White Sox were telecast from Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park.
Another feature of WGN-TV's live color programming, and winner of the "Peabody Award" for television entertainment (musical), is "Great Music from Chicago," a series of hour-long concerts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in prime Sunday evening time. This was the second consecutive Peabody Award for WGN-TV, the first being in 1958 for "The Blue Fairy," a colorful children's fantasy.
A series of remotes telecast in full color
WGN-TV presents "Chicagoland Church Hour", a series of remotes telecast in full color direct from Chicago area churches. With other live, film and network spectaculars, WGN-TV's color schedule has totaled on occasions more than 37 hours in a single week of programming.
- Anmerkung : In den USA spielen die Evangelisten (protestantische Kirchengemeinden) mit etwa 3.500 einzelnen Gemeinden eine starke Rolle. Alleine duch Spenden aus der Gemeinde finanziert stehen dort ganz Fernsehstudios, die die Predigten landesweit über die großen Netzwerke übertragen.
Now in its fifth year of colorcasting, the Chicago Tribune station is completing a new Radio-TV studio and office building on Chicago's north side. The TV portion will be an all-color operation.
Commenting on the success of their color programming, Ward L. Quaal, Vice President and General Manager of WGN, Inc., said color TV is beginning to achieve mass awareness. "Color is exciting - it adds a fourth dimension to the other three of sight, sound and motion."
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FIG. 1. The Chicago Symphony orchestra is heard each Sunday evening, 9 to 10 p.m., on "G Music from Chicago," which is televised live and in living color over WGN Television.
FIG. 2. WGN-TV covered 120 Cubs and White Sox daytime home baseball games during 1960.
FIG. 3. WGN-TV's four-camera RCA color mobile uni! parked outside of Comiskey Park. (Color illustration at leit shows one of the RCA color cameras in Comiskey Park.)