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BROADCASTERS’ NEWS BULLETIN
Reporting accurately and promptly current happenings oi special interest to Broadcasting Stations In the Commercial, Regulatory, Legislative and Judicial Fields
OFFICERS
WALTER J. DAMM, , Milwaukee, Wis. President
EDWIN W. SPENCE, Atlantic City, N. J. Vice President
O. D. FISHER . Seattle, Wash.
Vice President
PAUL W. MORENCy, Hartford, Conn. Treasurer
Issued by
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
Incorporated
NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C.
Telephone District 9497
EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL
PHILIP G. LOUCKS Managing Director
EUGENE V. COGLEY Assistant to Managing Director
OLIVINE FORTIER Secretary
April 22, 1931
HEARING ON GENERAL ORDER NO. 7
A public hearing on the proposal of the Federal Radio Commission to amend General Order No. 7, adopted on April 28, 1927, to reduce the allowable fre¬ quency deviation from 500 cycles to 50 cycles within the next year was held at Washington on Monday, April 20, 1931. Approximately 100 were present. The hearing was conducted by Chief Examiner Ellis A. Yost.
Not a single objection was voiced to the great bulk of testimony intro¬ duced in favor of revision of the order and it was the general impression that the Commission will in the near future adopt an order reducing the permissible frequency deviation from 500 to 50 cycles per second. The order, according to the opening statement made by Commission counsel, would not in any event become effective until a year after the date of its adoption.
The testimony introduced dealt largely with the benefits to be derived from adoption of the order; the availability and cost of equioment; and the ability of the Government to make suitable measurements.
Expected objection to the order did not develop although the Chief Exam¬ iner called thrice for statements from opponents to the proposal.
At the close of the hearing there was no indication given as to when the Commission would take formal action upon the proposal.
The National Association of Broadcasters has attempted in this Bulletin to present a full and fair report of the hearing.
Executive Committee: William S. Hedges, Chicago, III., Chairman; Henry A. Bellows, Minneapolis, Minn., and Frank M. Russell, Washington, D. C. Directors; William S. Hedges, Chicago, III.; H. K. Carpenter, Raleigh, N. C.; George F. McOelland, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Frank W. Elliott, Davenport, la.; A. J. McCosker, Newark, N. J.,Edgar L. Bill, Chicago, III.; A. B. Church, Kansas City, Mo.; J. G. Cummings, San Antonio, Tex.; Don Lee, Los Angeles, Cal.; E. P. O’Fallon, Denver, Colo.; C. R. Clements, Nashville, Tenn.; Henry A. Bellows, Minneapolis, Minn.; John J. Storey, Worcester, Mass.; Morgan L. Eastman, Chicago, III.; and Leo Fitzpatrick, Detroit, Mich.