TELEVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100440009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/07/15: CIA-RDP80-00810A0021004400091L !> v0Z
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT
25X1 C.
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
25X1X
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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DATE DISTR.
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
25X1A
20 August .1953
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Czech. television sets are in a typical veneer wood cabinet., approximately
20 inches wide., 11 inches high, and 25 inches deep. The screen is in the
left half of the box, aid is about 7 k 8 inches. The cost of a set is
4,000 crowns, but this does not include installation and cost of an antenna.
These cost about 700 crowns, making a total cost of 4.,700 crowns or almost
x+700.00.
According to the advertisements., the sets have a range of from 30 to 50
kilometers. The television tower is at the top of the tower on Petrin
Hill in Prague near''.the stadium behind the American Embassy. On Wednesdays
end Saturdays programs re on television beginning at 800 p.m.
A ehap selling sets is on Jindrisska street., in Prague., on the opposite
street from the Main Post Office. On Saturday nights 19 July
1953ser~ was a line of approximately 60 people waiting to see the gets
operate. One set was operating on the 'second floor., and about 15 people
at a ,time were ..admitted to watch the show. A 1919 movies .probably Russian..
apparently taken at a world communist conference., showed dancers and
singers from Bi gariap Argentina, the Uzbek SSR, the Eierman Democratic
Republics geg and other countries.
Reception was good and source believes it compared favorably with machines
made in, the U.S. in 1950 and 1951. The screen is much. smaller, and the
operator was obliged to make frequent trips to the machine to make the
picture clearer. Contrast was fair.
SECRET
Czechoslovakia
Television
(N;'.. Wa..'.inpton Distribution Indic?at.d By "X'; Field Distribution By "#".)
Approved For Release 2002/07/15: CIA-RDP80-0081OA002100440009-1