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Yeah, yeah, K p x. In order to improve its value to you, the television viewers is starting a brand new project. Just recently, we completed new television studios on Van Ness Avenue at Greenwich Street, and now something new is in the wind, to be completed by

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the end of this month. It's a new transmitter. Those small dots in your screen in this huge tower, which is 1426 ft above sea level, are men working. You can probably hear the pounding as we talk. Those men are helping to complete the new antenna and

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equipment for the transmitter the Kpi X is installing to further increase reception for you. What will actually happen will be explained to us in just a moment by role. Didrikson, who is the supervisor, the engineer in charge of this project for us here at K P

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I X to orient you to give you an idea of where we are. This is Mount Sutro, and we'll describe briefly where we're located as we swing around over in the distance. There, beyond the trees is Mount Davidson, which, of course you recognize when the crucifixes

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lit at night. And as we swing past Mount Davidson over Mira Loma Park and in the background, hazy in your screen, the Mission District and so forth we swing into view. Twin Peaks. This is perhaps an on a custom view of Twin Peaks. Most of you

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have seen it from Market Street, probably in San Francisco, passing the Twin Peaks and Christmas Tree Peak. We swing out finally arrived at the Bay Area itself, the downtown section and very hazy. We know it's difficult for you to see on your screen the East B

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area coming around faintly in your screen now the Bay Bridge and, of course, the familiar landmarks. And to continue around, we'd get into, of course, Marin County and so forth. It's a little difficult to see from such a high place these extreme long shots on your

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screen. Now let's meet one of the men who has been working behind the scenes at K P. I X for many years. He's the supervisor in charge of this new project. We'd like you to meet Rolled Didrikson rolled. You'll step into view here. Let's ask you

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first of all, the reason for the new transmitter and antenna installation. Well, the main reason that we're moving to this new location is that we can increase the height of our antenna and provide much better coverage to the primary area as the FCC designates the metropolitan

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area immediately close to our transmitting site. And also we'll be able to provide very good coverage to further distances from San Francisco, where you have wonderful new equipment and new antenna. It is a different type than we're presently using. We will have broad coverage with this

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antenna and with the height, Um, we expect to I put out a very good signal and we also have a new transmitter. Uh, it's the very latest in design. It's been thoroughly tested in the factory, and we're told that all we have to do is connect

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up the units of the transmitter, apply power to it connected to the antenna, and we'll be on the air. So we expected beyond the air in a matter of days, possibly two weeks at most. Since we can see the tower itself, could you explain a little

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about what is going to happen? The men are working up there. They're pretty tiny at this moment, But what will actually happen to the tower? Well, to the tower, which you can see now in your screen if you'll notice near the top, there is a platform.

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A triangular platform just below that platform extending from one of the three legs of the tower will be mounted. Our new antenna and the men that you see working on the mask are strengthening that portion of the mask so that it will be able to handle

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all the wind loads. As we call it. This tower has to support quite a bit of weight and adding an antenna that we're using, um means that we have to make sure that it will be strong enough to support the additional weight of the antenna. Plus

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taking care of the fact that sometimes very high winds blow here and the tower has to be strong enough to support it. And this tower has a very good safety factor. It has a safety factor, um, so that it can withstand very heavy winds with no

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danger of toppling over. Now I know, uh, roll that the at the very first opportunity you started this new project that is as soon as you got governmental permission to go ahead. You did. And I'd like to know how much background was involved. How long did

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it take you to plan this setup? Well, in planning a set up of this nature, we have to get approval from the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D. C. They make a very thorough investigation into a good man. Many matters financial as well as

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injuring wise of any station that wants to go on the air. And they make sure that the engineering plans that are submitted meet all their specifications. And when they give their stamp of approval to projects such as this, why then we can call in the contractors

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and go to work at the present time. There are about 50 men employed working on this installation, getting the new transmitter and antenna in place so that we're aiming for a deadline, and we feel quite sure we'll be able to make it fine. One more question.

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I understand that some of the equipment being used is so new that this will probably be its first use in the United States. That's right. We are using a co actual cable which will reach from the transmitter up to the antenna. That run will be 400

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ft, and we will be using two lengths of two actual cable. Um, it's quite common practice to use co actual cable, which is made up in sections. However, this new cable we are going to use was imported from Germany, and it has the unusual feature of

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being one continuous length. So we're not going to be troubled with, uh joint between sections of cable, which can cause trouble, because when that cable is exposed to the weather, the wind, the sun and the rain, the fog, it all affects anything that's outside. And if

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any of those short sections of cable were to open up, it would cause a great deal of trouble for us and that it might impair the picture or the sound. So to make sure that the A picture will always be at the best quality, we're going

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to use this long continuous length of co actual cable, and we are assured that we will not have any trouble on that score. Thank you very much. Role Didrikson. Well, that's the story. Ladies and gentlemen, to bring you better programs. We have constructed a brand new

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studio now to bring those programs to you with a better picture. We're constructing a new transmitter and a new antenna. We hope you've enjoyed this. Look behind the scenes at K P X on channel five. See you again next week. Good night.