Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569754930)

Identifier: belltelephone6667mag00amerrich (find matches)

Title: Bell telephone magazine

Year: 1922 (1920s)

Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept

Subjects: Telephone

Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)

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Behind men who manage TV transmiaion system is map of nationwide networkthat can be custom-tailored to each broadcasters minute-by-minute requirement.At New York switching center (right) technicians monitor picture quality. Similarcenters hum in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles. 26

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jmm>r0it ^^ The All-PurposePictureNetwork Go out in the street and ask ten people what it takesto put one of those pictures on their TV tube. Theythink you point the camera and, bang, they get thepicture. Nobody realizes what it takes to keep thatflow of pictures coming in. Of course, if we do ourjob right, maybe we should be the invisible men. Dick Kerr pauses. Hes a wiry Missourian who wasoperations manager of an independent telephonecompany before he was old enough to vote. Laterhe ran a Signal Corps station in the Army. Now heheads a team of salesmen handling fast-breaking de-mands for TV transmission facilities. His bailiwickincludes specialized TV networks and miscellaneousclosed-circuit and educational television transmis-sion requests that come into the New York office ofAT&Ts Long Lines Department. Also in this office arethe men who handle requests for transmission fromNBC, CBS and ABC — plus the vital facilities organi-zation that keeps an up-to-the-minute inventory

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