Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1962)

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any city in Arizona and will fit into Phoenix with no engineering problems, Mr. Harkins said. He formerly owned KTYL-AM-FM Mesa, Ariz, (sold in 1958) and theaters in Arizona from 1932-61. Mr. Harkins holds the Muzak franchise for Phoenix and in the 1950's equipped more than 75 U. S. fm stations for multiplexing. He presently owns an electrical repair firm in Phoenix. Appeals court backs FCC cutoff date The U. S. Court of Appeals in Washington last week upheld the FCC practice of announcing a cut-off date afterwhich the agency refuses to accept mutually exclusive applications to those already pending. A unanimous court turned down an appeal by Century Broadcasting Corp. which in 1961 had sought to apply for a new am on 1510 kc in Jeannette, Pa. Century tendered its application after the announced cut-off date had expired and the court ruled the FCC was within its rights in refusing to accept the application. The court noted that Century did not file its application until four months after competing applications had been set for hearing. NIXON IN DEFEAT Radio, tv get his praise, but newspapers are blasted Richard M. Nixon, in a bitter farewell to public life, assailed the press last week for the way it reported his unsuccessful campaign for governor of California, but he had high praise for television and radio. The former vice president, in conceding the election to Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, told a televised news conference: " I think that it is time that our great newspapers have at least the same objectivity, the same fullness of coverage that television has. And I can only say thank God for television and radio for keeping the newspapers a little more honest." Mr. Nixon singled out only one newspaper reporter — Carl Greenberg of the Los Angeles Times — as having given him coverage he considered fair, objective and complete. To the assembled reporters, he said: "You won't have Nixon to kick around any longer." Mr. Nixon also swiped at the FCC. Declaring that he didn't think publishers should tell their reporters how to write The day Dad gives Jimmy his first shaving gear is a big one for both of them. The father in the background is one of the nation's adults, who receive and control 98% of the U. S. income.* In the WBT 48-county basic area, adults receive and control most of the $2,690,786,000 worth of spending money** . . . and WBT radio has the largest number of adult listeners. Clearly, the radio station to use for more sales is the one that reaches more adults . . . WBT RADIO CHARLOTTE. Represented nationally by John Blair & Company. Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company *U.S. Dept. of Commerce **Spring 1961, Area Pulse and Sales Management's Survey of Buying Power, 1960 their stories, he added: "I don't believe the FCC or anybody else should silence the one voice raised in the wilderness" in his behalf. This was an apparent reference to the FCC inquiry to KTTV (TV) Los Angeles about complaints that that station's Tom Duggan had spoken out strongly in support of Mr. Nixon's candidacy. As a result of the inquiry, the station added a 15-minute program to its schedule to present the Democratic viewpoint. This FCC action was attacked last week in a front page column of the Hollywood Citizen News. Dave Heyler, the author, called the action "the most diabolic and vicious attack on free speech ever perpetrated on a free America." WLYH-TV to identify as Lancaster-Lebanon The FCC reallocated ch. 15 from Lebanon, Pa., to Lancaster-Lebanon last week (Nov. 7) (For the Record, page 92). The action permits WLYHTV Lebanon to establish main studios in Lancaster and is the latest in a series of maneuvers affecting the CBS-TV lineup in the Central Pennsylvania area: WLYH-TV will become a CBS-TV affiliate for the Lancaster-Lebanon area effective Jan. 1, 1963, and will be interconnected with two other uhf stations which were linked to carry CBS programs last May: WHP-TV (ch. 21) Harrisburg and WSBA-TV (ch. 43) York (Broadcasting, May 21, and Closed Circuit, April 9). WLYH-TV will maintain its Lebanon studios, according to Roger W. Clipp, vice president of Triangle Stations, WLYH-TV licensee. WGAL-TV (ch. 8) Lancaster, now primary NBC-TV and CBS-TV, will drop CBS. KRCK denies group's charges A complaint by the Ridgecrest, Calif., chapter of the American Assn. of University Women against the programming of KRCK, that city (Broadcasting, Oct. 10), contains "inadvertent errors or misstatements," the station told the FCC several weeks ago. Victor M. Farel, KRCK owner, said that the survey by the AAUW unit is "quite unrepresentative" of the station's overall programming. He said KRCK does feature classical and semi-classical music, contrary to misstatements of AAUW, and has "numerous" opinion and informational and public service programs. He said the intellectual and cultural programs of the station have failed to obtain the support of the complaining AAUW group. 56 (GOVERNMENT) BROADCASTING, November 12, 1962