Television Digest was a weekly newsletter starting
in September of 1945. Television Digest was
founded by Martin Codel (With Sol Taishoff directed the early days of
Broadcasting Magazine).
Television Digest began as a simple typed
newsletter for TV pioneers offering
summaries of their competitors, accounts of
changing technology, abstracts of FCC
rulings and listings of CPs and
applications.
In March of 1959, Television Digest became part of
Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications.
Triangle discontinued publication on September 11,
1961
On September 18, 1961 the publication was
transferred to Albert Warren, the former chief of
the Washington Bureau. |
Triangle Ends Publication
Statement from the
Publisher |
. Since its inception in 1945, when its chief
purpose was to serve as a source of information for
prospective station operators and for manufacturers
interested in knowing when & where new stations
would go on the air, the publication has earned an
enviable reputation for accuracy & objectivity in
the reporting & interpreting of television trade
news. But television has long since passed the stage
of initial physical growth which provided the
substance of Television Digest's pages. We have
shifted emphasis to news of advertising,
programming, films and other facets of the mature,
thriving industry. These subjects are also covered
by trade publications which carry advertising and by
newspapers. We are convinced that there is not
sufficient interest in such broad general coverage
of television in the newsletter form by enough
subscribers to justify continuance of Television
Digest
by its present publishers. |
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Albert Warren Assumes Control |
With distinct enthusiasm and pleasure, we resume
publication of Television Digest, Television
Factbook, Radio Station Directory, and the other
traditional
addenda & supplemental material associated with the
16 -year -old masthead of Television Digest. As you
learned suddenly from Vol. 17:37, Triangle
Publications, Inca discontinued publication on Sept.
11.
The new editor & publisher, Albert Warren, formerly
chief of the Washington Bureau, has assumed control
and responsibility for publication, forming
Television Digest Inc. on Sept. 11 for that purpose.
Staff
comprises former members of Triangle staff. |
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