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He ini Radio News Service
8/14/46
TRADE NOTES : : :
The Federal Communications Commission has amended its rules governing amateur radio operators which will permit amateur applicants to hand print code tests and provides that assignment of an unassigned two-letter call can now be made to previous holders of two-letter calls. The revisions also delete restriction on the use of geographical terms as phonetic aids in station transmission of its call letters. — ^ asaS"
Columbia Broadcasting System’s promotion of 1946-47 pro¬ grams will be ushered in September 22nd and 29th when 90-minute broadcasts will be heard from 3 to 4 :30 P.M. The network will again use the title of "The Biggest Show in Town" for its overall promo¬ tion project by which listeners will be informed of programs to be carried through the Fall and Winter seasons.
The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion is current¬ ly preparing a report for President Truman concerning support given the Famine Emergency Program, it was learned this week, and accord¬ ing to Jay M, Socin, Program Director of OWMR's Media Program Divi¬ sion, "at the moment, it would appear that radio deserves the lion’s share of the credit for securijg public cooperation and support, "
The statement was maee by Mr, Socin in a letter to Dorothy Lewis, NAB Coordinator of Listener Activity, expressing appreciation for the contributions made by the Association of Women Directors, a subsidiary of the National Association of Broadcasters,
Philips Laboratories, Inc., affiliate of N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken, Eindhoven, Holland, has announced that the latest reports published in English by the parent company includes six highly technical papers which should prove beneficial to Ameri¬ can radio researchers. Network synthesis, in which is discussed the determination by which maximum technical efficiency may be reached, highlights the reports and it was stated that further articles on this subject will shortly follow.
'TJarleton D. Smith, General Manager of WRC, Washington, D. C. recently played host to a large group of officers from Task Force One, Operation Crossroads, at a television viewing in WRC studios. Guests, some of whom had just returned from Bikini, saw films of the second atom bomb blast televised from New York via coaxial cable. Guests included Admiral F. J. Lowry and Mrs. Lowry, Commander F. A. Spencer, who was at Bikini, and Mrs, W, H. P. Blandy, wife of Admiral Blandy the Task Force Commander,
With the addition of three affiliates in Latin America, the CBS Network of the Americas (Cadena de las Americas) now has a total of 114 stations throughout Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, it was announced last week by Edmund Chester, CBS Director of Latin American Relations.