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June 6, 1931
WHA-WLBL ARGUKENT HEARD
Coxinsel representing the University of Wisconsin end the State Department of Agriculture and Markets of Y/isconsin, operators of Stations WHA, Madison, and ’.VLBL, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, argued the caffe of these stations before the Com¬ mission this week. The apulicants have requested authority to consolidate both stations and operate at Madison with 5 KW day power on the present assignment of WL3L. After the hearing, the Examiner recommended denial of the applications. Exceptions having been filed, the Commission heard formal argument this week. ’.7BEN, The Biiffalo Evening News, assigned to full time on 900 kc appeared in op¬ position to the granting of the Wisconsin applicants' request.
620 KC HEARING ENDS
After seven full days of hearing testimony in the case involving the assign¬ ment of WTMJ, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the frequency of 620 kc , Examiner Pratt concluded the taking of evidence on Wednesday of this week. More than twentyone hundred pages of testimony have been reported in order that the Commission may fully comply with the mandate of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
The court order provided that the service area of WTMJ should be "materially restored" by the Commission to what it was prior to November, 1929.
EDUCATIONAL STATIONS DWINDLE
There has bee n a steady trend toward commercialization of educational broad¬ casting stations, according to an article printed this week in the United States Daily. The article states:
"Official records of the Commission show that since Feb, 23, 1927, when that agency took over administration of broadcasting, 53 educational radio stations have been deleted from the lists. Of these 23 have been assigned to commercial interests on application of the stations themselves. There are approximately 50 stations now operated by educational institutions, according to the records.
The following additional information was mad.e available;
"For the most part educational stations have been unable to compete effectively with commercial broadcasters. On the whole, such stations have found it difficult to keep abreast of engineering developments in radio, and install modern apparatus, required under new technical regulations promulgated by the Commission."
WGAR PLaNS new HOME
An attractive American type brick structure will be the new home of the trans¬ mitting equipment of Station WGAR, Cleveland, Ohio. It is estimated that $50,000. will be expended to construct the new transmitter and its attractive home.