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July 2, 1932
C0M5SMNS MIO ASTROLOGERS
Programs broadcast by astrologers are not in the public interest, Chief Examiner Yost ruled in a report to the Commission made public this week, holding that such programs permit the use of a broadcast station for the personal benefit of the in¬ dividuals producing the broadcasts. It was held further in the case involving the renewal application of station KTAB, San Francisco, California, that the answering of questions in such a program constitutes point to point conmunication since mess¬ ages of this nature are directed to private individuals. The Examiner in his con¬ clusions (Report No. 383) ruled in favor of the granting of the renewal on the ground the present operators of the station were not in control of the station facilities at the time of the broadcasts.
Two astrologers, according to the Report, have used the station. The programs were produced by individuals known as Zbro and Zobar. Testimony was introduced at the hearing also in connection with programs broadcast under the direction of Dr. J, Douglas Thompson, a licensed chiropractor. The latter broadcasts concerned them¬ selves solely with questions of diet, and were utilized for the sale of two books published by Dr. Thompson in connection with his theories on diets and health. The Examiner found from the record that these, programs were in public interest.
The Report is replete with excerpts from the broadcasts and also contains the correspondence which passed between the station and the Commission in connection with the station* s efforts to have the programs withdrawn on being advised there might be some question as to the nature of the progra:iis.
In connection with the operation of the station, the Examiner fo^and only one complaint was received from a listener during fourteen hundred programs produced by Dr, Thompson.
APPLICATIONS DEFAULTED
This week the Commission held in default the application for a new station at Baton Rouge, Louisiana filed by the Louisiana Broadcast Co. Hie applicant requested autnority to erect a station on 1310 kc with 100 watts and un,limited time, seeking the facilities of Stations ZMLB; KRJfD and WTSL, This decision sustained the findi:igs of Examiner Yost in Report No. 371, after the applicant failed to appear.
The recommendations of Examiner/were also upheld in the application of Charles L. Bennett, Jamaica, New York, requesting authority to erect a new station on 1210 kc with 100 watts to share time with Stations WGBB; WCOH; and WJBI (Report No. 367), Tne application was withdrawn from the Conmission's files with prejudice.
LICENSE applications GRi^TED
During the current week the Commission granted license applications covering previously authorized construction permits from the following stations.J WHOM, Jersey City, New Jersey; 'jVNBHs New Bedford, Massachusetts; WBBM-WJBT, Chicago, Ill¬ inois'; WGCP , Newark, New Jersey.