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CBC has indicated no grants until first 2 are built, and possibly other CBC outlets in Ottawa, Quebec, Winnipeg, Vancouver — unlikely this year.
CUBA : CMQ-TV on Channel 6 & CMUR-TV on Channel 4, both Havana, were first
stations in country. Former has already put 2 satellites in operation — CMJL-TV on Channel 6 in Camaguey (Dec. 6) and CMHQ-TV on Channel 5 in Santa Clara (Jan. 1), with Channel 9 outlet due to start in Matanzas by Jan. 25 and Channel 2 in Santiago by Feb. 20. Goar Mestre, island's biggest radio operator, plans to run these with films and kine-recordings until completion of an 18-hop, 500-mile microwave relay this year that will cost $950,000 and will make network service possible.
There's talk also of outlets in Holguin, to cover Oriente Province, and in Pinar del Rio — but no permits issued yet. Only other CP holder is Santiago's Cadena Oriental de Radio, Channel 5, though there's talk of another Havana station. That would be on Channel 2 — prime movers said to be Humara & Lastra, RCA distributors, in collaboration with Angel Cambo, onetime CMQ stockholder, and Amadeo Barletta, publisher of El Mundo and Cuban distributor for Cadillac, Oldsmobile & Chevrolet.
MEXICO : Two stations now operating in Mexico City — Romulo O'Farrill's
XHTV on Channel 4, Emilio Azcarraga's XEW-TV, Channel 2. Also, one on the border across from Brownsville, Tex. — XELD-TV, Matamoros, owned by O'Farrill. And there's experimental XHGC, Mexico City, operated sporadically on Channel 5 by Azcarraga's onetime technical chief, Guillermo Gonzales Camarena, chiefly on color tests.
Elaborate plans for many more stations — 17 more by O'Farrill, 6 more by Azcarraga — indicate how completely sold they are on the medium. Both have gotten authorizations for their big projects, destined to provide rival networks. Ministry of Communications having specified they must complete stations within 18 months. In addition to these, only known CPs issued by the Ministry, which for some unaccountable reason still keeps its grants hush-hush, are Channel 6 for Tijuana, near San Diego, issued to Jorge I. Rivera, operator of radio XEAC, and Channel 15 in Mexico City, issued to the University of Mexico for educational purposes.
The "gems" in both O'Farrill's and Azcarraga's crowns are the stations they plan at historic Cortez Pass, some 45 air miles from Mexico City at an altitude of 13,000 ft. above sea level, 5500 ft. above Mexico City. On respective Channels 7 and 9 there, they propose to "spray" their signals down not alone upon Mexico City but over Puebla (pop. 150,000) and all the surrounding population as well.
These are the 16 other authorizations to O'Farrill, who is not only up to his ears in TV-radio but who also publishes the Mexico City Novedades (Spanish) and News (English) but is also a top industrialist: Tijuana, Channel No. 12; Mexicali ,
No. 3; Monterrey, No. 2; Reynosa, No. 9; Torreon, No. 3; Guadalaj ara. No. 3; Tampico , No. 3; Veracruz , No. 12; Juarez , No. 2; Laredo , No. 3; Nogales , No. 2; Guanajuato , No. 12; Hermosillo , No. 6; Piedras Negras, No. 2; Acapulco , No. 6; Merida, No. 4.
These are the 5 other authorizations to Azcarraga, who is Mexico's leading radio-theatreman : Monterrey, Channel No. 6; Guadalajara, No. 10; Tampico , No. 6;
Veracruz, No. 10; Guanajuato , No. 3.
FCC's 1950 STATISTICS, AGED BUT USEFUL: Though 1950 TV station income is now old hat ,
inasmuch as FCC issued basic statistics last March (Vol. 7:13), TV applicants would do well to study Commission's detailed breakdowns issued Jan. 5, for clues to future behavior of their own stations when they reach same "age". Report also covers AM, gives good picture of TV's impact on aural economics year ago — first such comparison issued by Commission.
Value of 43-table report (Mimeo. 71464) lies in such statistics as these:
(1) Comparison of interconnected and non-interconnected stations. Former averaged $86,058 income before taxes ($727,084 revenues minus $641,026 expenses), while latter lost average of $107,691 ($542,071 revenues, $649,762 expenses). Breakdown of these, according to number of outlets in city (1,2, 3, 4 or 7), is included.
(2) Itemization of expenses for the 93 stations not network owned. Average paid $213,028 for programming, $155,216 general & administrative expenses, $124,466 technical expenses, $40,864 selling costs — total $533,574.
(3) Investment in tangible property, by size of city. In those cities over