Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

'JAR, Providence, R. I. ; WADC, Talmadge, 0. ; KPRC, "ouston, Tex. ; KTLC, Houston, Tex. ; WJBC, Birmingam ; KFBI, Milford, Kans. ; KHJ, Los Angeles ; KFRC, an Francisco ; KGB, San Diego, Cal. WAPI, Birmingham, Ala. — Granted extension of aulority to make field intensity survey from May 4 to une 15. Set for hearing: KGDA, Mitchell, S. D.— Renewal of cense; NEW, Gustav A. Jenkins, Antonio, Colo. — CP >r new station, 1200 kc, 100 w. ; share with KGEK and ;GEW ; KSO, Clarinda, la. — CP to move transmitter nd studio from Clarinda to New Hope Township, Iowa, nd Iowana Hotel, Creston, la., respectively; WEAN, rovidence, R. I. — Modification of license to increase ight power from 250 to 500 w., on experimental basis. MAY 13 WHA, Madison, Wis. — Granted CP to move transmitr to a new location in Madison, and change equipment. WWL, New Orleans, La. — Granted modification of CP 3 move transmitter from Kenner, La., to location near :enner, and extend completion date from May 15 to .ugust 1, 1932. WSMB, New Orleans, La. — Granted license covering cal move of transmitter; 1320 kc, 500 w., unlimited. WFLA-WSUN, Clearwater, Fla. — Granted permission 3 extend program test period for 30 days. WJAR, Providence, R. I. — Granted permission to roadcast test program for two weeks, from May 12, 1 3 5 a.m., providing no interference results to Canadian tations. (Action taken May 11th). WLTH. Brooklyn, N. Y. — Granted authority to use ransmitter of WHBC for period of 10 days from May 5. Action taken May 5). KGU, Honolulu, T. H. — Granted authority to extend ([ quipment test for 6 days. (Action" taken May 11). £ WORC-WEPS, Worcester, Mass. — Granted authority to .lake depositions filed on behalf of WORC-WEPS in re Application for CP and modification of license ; hearing jiet for May 23. (Action taken May 7). 1 W9XAO, Western Television Corp., Chicago, 111.— granted renewal of experimental visual broadcasting liJense, 2000-2100 kc, 500 w., and granted consent to j'oluntary assignment of license to Western Television .Research Co. NEW, Westinghouse E. and M. Co., Portable, initial -pcation SS St. John, Boston, Mass. — Granted CP for ijroadcast pickup, 1566 and 2390 kc, 15 w. Also granted I cense to cover same. Set for hearing : NEW, Merle K. Berger, Upper Tyone Township, Pa. — Requests CP, 1420 kc, 100 w. ; 8 6 p.m. NEW, Peoples Broadcasting Corp., Jacksonville, Fla. -Requests CP, 1200 kc, 100 w., unlimited time; (failities of WMBR). WSBT, South Bend, Ind. — Requests modification of license to increase hours of operation from specified hours jday only) to continuous D. operation to 5:30 p.m. WHDL, Tupper Lake, N. Y. — Renewal of license set l or hearing. '! Applications dismissed at request of applicants : ijVCSC, Charleston, S. C. — Modification of license, 1360 c, 1 kw., unlimited time. WLBW, Oil City, Pa. — CP 1020 kc, 5 kw., unlimited lime. I Action on examiners' reports : WHBC, Canton, Ohio (Ex. Rep. 350) — Granted renewal of license to operate on 1200 kc, 10 w., during the jollowing hours : 6 to 9 a.m. ; 12 M to 3 p.m. ; 6 to 9 I'.m. daily, sustaining Chief Examiner Yost. ; WNBO, Silver Haven, Pa. (Ex. Rep. 350) — Denied renewal of license to operate on 1200 kc. with 100 w., to ^jhare with WHBC on Sundays, sustaining Examiner >st, and granted CP for new transmitter to operate on f)0 kc, 100 w., during following hours: 9 a.m. to 12 m ; to 6 p.m. ; 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. daily. Action affecting itions WHBC and WNBO effective 20 days from this Examiners' Reports . . . I KGB, San Diego, Cal. — Chief Examiner Yost (Report 1 55, Docket 1528) recommended that application for inJ rease in power from 500 w. to 1 kw. be granted on jhe ground that service area would be extended without ausing additional interference. KGGC, San Francisco — Examiner Pratt (Report 356, )ocket 1540) recommended that application for unlims ted time be granted as no additional interference would 'esult. KGGC formerly shared time with KFQU, Holy jSity, Cal., recently deleted. J Shreveport Broadcast Co., Shreveport, La. — Examiner 'ratt (Report 357, Docket 1485) recommended that application for visual CP on 1608-2080 kc, 100 w., unlimited time, be denied on ground that applicant failed Jo show adequate financial and technical resources for I perating television station. I WMT, Waterloo, la. — Examiner Walker (Report 358, pocket 1544) recommends that application to move station from Waterloo to Des Moines and to operate with J 00 w. in lieu of present 250 w. with added 250 w. as "xperimental be denied in that it would place CanadianJhared channel at point less than 500 miles from Canadian border in violation of Paragraph 123, Rules and j legulations. KGMP, Elk City, Okla. — Chief Examiner Yost recommended (Report 359, Docket Nos. 1375, 1470, 1412, 1465, ■ 467 and 1473) that the order of revocation entered by he Commission Sept. 1, 1931, revoking license of Homer \ Bryant, be set aside and vacated ; that application of i-iryant for CP to move transmitter and change equipR lent be denied ; that application of Bryant for renewal J f KGMP license be granted ; that application for voluntary assignment of KGMP license from Bryant to D. R. iVallace be denied; that application for voluntary asignment of license from Bryant to E. M. Woody, be ranted, and that application of Woody for CP to move IGMP and install new equipment, be granted. Station perates with 100 w., 1210 kc, unlimited time. Hearings on Copyright Reopened By Sirovich WITH NO ADVANCE notice, hearings were reopened May 12 by Chairman Sirovich, of the House Patents Committee, on his bill to modernize the existing copyright law. A new bill (H. R. 11918) was introduced by the New York Congressman to serve as the basis for the hearings, since his original measure already has been reported favorably by the committee. Parties primarily interested in the reopened hearings were the motion picture distributors and exhibitors, who presented conflicting views, and the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, represented by Nathan Burkan, general counsel, and Gene Buck, president. During the testimony, Buck volunteered the information that broadcasters last year "netted" over $60,000,000, and implied that still they were quarreling over the Society's proposed increase in rates for use of copyrighted music. Rep. Lanham, (D.) of Fort Worth, Tex., defender of ASCAP, nodded his approval. On hand to protect the interests of broadcasters, Louis G. Caldwell, copyright counsel for NAB, challenged Buck's statement. He added that no other industry in the United States, if not in the world, had been subjected to the close scrutiny of its financial operations as broadcasting. These findings, he said, shortly will be shown in the Radio Commission's report to the Senate under the CouzensDill resolution calling for an investigation of broadcasting and radio advertising. This report, Mr. Caldwell predicted, would show that Mr. Buck's $60,000,000 figure more likely will be that of gross revenue, and that the "profits" of the industry were only a very small fraction of that amount. A NEW DETAILED rate card has been prepared by the NBC for each and all of its several station groups comprising the basic red and the basic blue networks. Besides stating the rates for each of these services, the card gives the urban and the farm and rural populations of the areas covered. Copies of the rate card may be obtained from the NBC headquarters in New York or from any of its branches. The rate card is dated May 15, 1932, and is the eighth to be issued since NBC was founded in 1926. Washington Visitors* Raymond Soat, National Radio Advertising, Inc., New York Ralph Matheson, WHDH, Gloucester, Mass. Charles Gaines, World Broadcasting System, New York K. B. Warner, Hartford, Conn. A. E. Case, J. H. Pressley and J. C. Batcheler, U. S. Radio & Television Corp., Marion, Ind. John B. Geiser, KFWI, San Francisco H. B. Wooten, WREC, Memphis A. B. Chamberlain and G. Stanley McAllister, CBS, New York H. A. Hutchinson, KVOO, Tulsa, Okla. Prof. Herman Hettinger, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Scott Howe Bo wen, New York Richard E. O'Dea, WODA, Patterson, N. J. J. T. Griffin, Muskogee, Okla. A. L. Ashby, C. W. Horn and J. C. Hennessey, Jr., NBC, New York Haraden Pratt, Mackay Radio & Telegraph, New York Loyd Briggs, RCA, New York W. G. H. Finch, Hearst radio, New York Lloyd Espenschied and L. E. Whittemore, A. T. & T., New York J. A. Teeters, KOCW, Chickasha, Okla. J. E. Richards, Memphis, Greenville (S. C.) News-Piedmont Co. O. H. Caldwell, Radio Retailing, New York H. V. Akerburg, CBS, New York Walter C. Evans, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh J. G. Gurney, WNAX, Yankton, S. D. H. A. Bellows, CBS, Minneapolis. H. V. Kaltenborn, CBS, New York *A register of visitors at the offices of the Federal Radio Commission, the National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcasting, May 1-11,. [ May 15, 1932 • BROADCASTING Amateur Ethics Editor's Note. — In the Dec 1 issue, Broadcasting briefly mentioned futile efforts of the Ventura (Cal.) Free Press to enlist the support of the American Radio Relay League in its campaign against broadcasting. In this editorial from the March "QST," official organ of the A. R. R. L., the editor and secretary of the amateur organization gives the viewpoint of the "hams" toward those who would demolish present-day broadcasting, pointing out that amateur radio will not be "used" for anybody's ax-gnnding. By K. B. WARNER THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS of amateur radio appeal to the public imagination. The assistance of an army of observers and experimenters is invaluable to those who obtain it. The service of communication provided by "amateurs is technically expert, it is free, and frequently it is the only means available. It is no wonder, then, that all manner of enterprises are constantly seeking the collaboration of the amateur. In the majority of these enterprises we have an opportunity for public service and for an interesting activity, but they likewise involve our duty to ourselves as amateurs and they require that we take a careful look at the propositions from all angles before we lend our aid. There is a steady flow of such requests into our headquarters office. Here they are carefully examined by our communications department, their merit determined, their operating interest assayed. The good ones are embraced, the others rejected. You read in QST and in the O.R.S. bulletins about the meritorious ones that we know are worthy, in the name of science, public service or intriguing operating opportunity, of our support. Occasionally there are "propolitions" of a different complexion. To some we reluctantly deny our cooperation because the proposed activity, while entirely above-board, is simply without any interest to amateurs. Such, for instance, as finding several thousand amateurs who would build special loop equipment and undertake to log several observations a day for a year or so on the apparent direction of static. But there are others that we turn down because they are improper, because they represent some more or less cleverly disguised attempts to "use" us to our disadvantage in somebody's axe-grinding scheme. We had a good example of that recently when a group of newspapers who have lost advertising to broadcasting, set out to lambast the daylights out of the present structure of broadcasting with the idea of turning things topsy-turvy and running the Federal Radio Commission ragged — to demolish present-day broadcasting to gain some business advantage to themselves. It was part of their plan to enlist the cooperation of the amateur group, offering us publicity and support in return. Naturally we declined to associate ourselves with any such move, for as radio amateurs we have no quarrel with broadcasting or the Commission and it would be insane to bring down on our necks the wrath of other groups in radio by treading upon them unnecessarily. Yet these people still aspire to amateur participation in their campaign and are telling their associates over the country to establish contact with local amateurs, who will cooperate if the amateur cause is championed. We like publicity and support, all right, but not at that price. The point of all this is that if you are not sure about some request you have received for amateur cooperation, write to A.R.R.L. Hq. for advice and the "low-down" on it. Every amateur is a free agent, responsible only to the Government for compliance with law and regulation, legally entitled of course to do anything he pleases within these limits. But why let yourself be "used" as a chestnut-puller by unscrupulous or misguided interests to the injury of all of amateur radio, especially when it's so easy to find out for sure? Perhaps we should warn against applying any such caution in cases of bona-fide distress or community emergency. The rule in such cases of course is to take one quick look to see that it looks genuine, then act, and do the thinking about it afterwards. Page 33