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August 14, 1946
NINE WASHINGTON FM GRANTS MADE; FCC SETS UP HEARING SECTION
Activity of the Federal Communications Commission in the radio broadcasting field, particularly in its efforts to get through its mountainous load of outstanding applications and cases in hear¬ ing, continued unabated through this past week, highlighted by nine grants for frequency modulation stations to be set up in the Wash¬ ington, D. C. area, permits for which were authorized August 12th.
Over the week-end the Commission also granted construction permits for 27 stations, both FM and standard, and the steady flow of grants continued through the week, including one for an experi¬ mental television station to be constructed by the Bendix Radio Divi¬ sion to be operated in the 600-620 megacycle band.
The Commission, in announcing its nine grants of FM con¬ struction permits for the Washington, D. C. area, denied only one application for the outlets, that of the Chesapeake Broadcasting Company, Following recent hearings it was indicated that unsuccess¬ ful applicants might request reopening of the hearings on the basis of conditional grants for the area granted previously but there has been no indication from Chesapeake at this point that it will make such a request.
The nine successful applicants, and frequencies on which they will broadcast, include: Commercial Radio Equipment Company, 101,3 megacycles; Cowles Broadcasting Company, 100.5 me,; National Broadcasting Company, 94, 5mc, ; Metropolitan Broadcasting Company, 101.7 me; Potomac Broadcasting Cooperative, Inc., 93.3 me.; Evening Star Broadcasting Company, 94.1 me.; WINX Broadcasting Company, 92.9 me.; Theodore Granik, 93.7 me.; and the Capital Broadcasting Company, 100. 9 me.
At the same time the Commission laid down certain condi¬ tions for some of the grants including that the National Broadcasting Company satisfy "legitimate complaints of blanketing", this condi¬ tion also applying to the Evening Star grant, and some technical features of station and antenna construction. Most of the grantees will have to meet the test of Civil Aeronautics Administration appro¬ val of their proposed antenna heights.
Meanwhile, the FCC over last week-end made 12 final addi¬ tional FM grants and four conditional authorizations. The final authorized stations will be located in Kansas, Iowa, New York, Massachusetts, Kentucky, West Virginia, Florida, Oregon, Oklahoma,