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retro: NYC Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1931

NEW YORK CITY TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 1931
Columbia Broadcasting System
W2XAB and W2XE
2750 – 2850 Kc, 500 watts (utilizing 60-line, 20 frame per second mechanical scanning system)

2:00PM – 6:00PM
EXPERIMENTAL SIGHT PROGRAMS. Card station announcements, and drawings of radio celebrities.

8:00PM
HEMSTREET QUARTET All girls novelty group with Helen Andrews, soloist. Long shot group picture. White and silver backdrop curtains.

8:15PM
GRACE VOSS – Pantomimes. Long shot and close-up. Silver backdrop curtain.

8:30PM
SENORITA SOLEDAD ESPINAL and HER PAMPEROS in a half-hour program of Spanish and Latin American music and songs. Guitar Sextette and Mezzo Soprano. Group projection with various backdrop screens.

9:00PM
THE TELEVISION GHOST. Mystery character in weird costume enacts the murder mysteries in the character of one risen from the grave…THE MURDERED!!

9:15PM
HAZEL DUDLEY – Song recital. Series of closeup pictures to be scanned.

9:30PM
THREE ROUND EXHIBITION BOXING BOUT. An experimental television demonstration of what the flying spot can do at a fight. Miniature ring will be used. Blow by blow description by Bill Schudt. Dark backdrops. Long shot pick-up. Scanner will follow boxers around ring.

9:45PM
GLADYS SHAW ERSKINE and MAJOR IVAN FIRTH PRESENT. Television novelties with visual illustrations. Alternate backdrops will be used.

10:00PM
“TASHAMIRA” Introduces new German modernistic dances and technique. Extreme long shot focu. Close-up with varied backdrop curtains.

10:15PM
ONE MAN NOVELTY BAND with VINCENT MONDI. Close-up against white backdrop.

10:30PM
ELIENE KAZANOVA – Violinist.

10:45PM
GRACE YEAGER, song recital. Close-up shot of an artist singing semi-classic favourites.

11:00PM
SIGN OFF.


Appendix of a paper presented at the April 1932 meeting of the Television Society, at University College, London, on April 18, 1932, titled Television in America To-day, by A. Dinsdale.
 
When I first saw the use of "W2XAB and W2XE", I thought it was two television stations simulcasting the same video and audio - a search corrected that. W2XAB was the callsign for the video portion of the broadcast; W2XE was the callsign for the audio. Good thing they got away from that precedent...

Interesting pictures can be found here:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xab.html
 
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