Broadcasting (July - Dec 1938)

ASCAP Pleas Denied THE special three-judge court in Pensacola on July 11 denied the motion of the State of Florida to vacate the injunction against the State anti-ASCAP law, according to an announcement July 13 by ASCAP headquarters in New York. Simultaneously, it was stated the court denied a counter-motion by ASCAP to substitute the name of Attorney General G. Couper Gibbs for that of the late Attorney General Cary D. Landis [see earlier story on page 15]. You Ever Play "Hide-go-seek" . . With Your Copies of BROADCASTING ? Unfortunately, copies of BROADCASTING do get misplaced. Especially around a busy office— when you need them most. Remember when that happened to you? But the remedy is simple. Just order one of the new, specially constructed binders, large enough to accommodate every issue throughout the year. $2.50 postpaid Your name in gold 25c extra B RQADjdoT I N G ^Broadcast w Advertising' National Press Building Washington, D. C. FCC Approves Transfer Of KVOS and Refuses Publisher's Application THE bitter controversy between KVOS, Bellingham, Wash, local, and the Bellingham Herald, pending before the FCC since 1935, was decided July 13 when the Commission granted KVOS a renewal of license and denied the application of Bellingham Publishing Co. for a new local station. Together with the renewal of the KVOS license, the FCC approved assignment of control of the corporation, operating the station, KVOS Inc., from Westcoast Broadcasting Co. to Rogan Jones, manager and operator. In denying the Bellingham Herald application, the Commission held the community was well served and that the evidence failed to show the need for an additional station. The Commission pointed out that the principal witness for the newspaper had been asked whether the demand for another station had not developed until the Newspaper of the Air, a feature over KVOS, was started. The witness replied "Well, it is virtually New Elmira Plant BOTH WESG, operated by Elmira Star-Gazette, and WENY, new 250 watt daytime station in Elmira, N. Y., for which the company has a construction permit, will be housed in the new seven-story addition to Elmira's Mark Twain Hotel. Studios will occupy one complete floor. Since establishment of WESG studios six years ago, the station has been located in the Mark Twain. According to Dale L. Taylor, WESG-WENY manager, the new studios will afford five times the space now occupied. Present studios will be converted into executive offices. Construction will be completed in the fall, when WENY is expected to take the air. KQW, San Jose, Cal., on July 12 was authorized by the FCC to increase its daytime power to 5,000 watts, effective July 22. It operates on 1010 kc, and will continue using 1,000 watts nights. We had to get that step-ladder when our company started to advertise over CKAC. CKAC, Montreal (Canada's Busiest Station) PHONELESS HOMES Are Surveyed in Detroit by Adcraft Club CASTING light on a listener group heretofore neglected — families with no telephones — Wayne University developed "listening tables", to be filled out at home by families of school children, and carried on a survey for the Detroit Adcraft Club. Only 36.9% of the families checked had phones. Conducted by Garnet R. Garrison, director of Wayne University's Broadcasting Guild, 1,369 "listening tables" were studied and tabulated. They indicated that 1,156 families or 5,126 persons listened at some time during the check. Students of Wayne University, three high, three intermediate and seven elementary schools were given tables by their teachers, instructed to take them home and keep them by the radio. As members of the family listened, they recorded the program received. It is estimated that an equivalent coincidental telephone survey would have required 98,000 calls to achieve the same scope — 72 quarter-hours each for 1,369 families. The study also showed which station enjoyed the largest listening audience any one day. Hammond Restrained HAMMOND CLOCK Co., Chicago, manufacturer of the Hammond electric organ, was ordered by the Federal Trade Commission July 12 to cease and desist from "misleading representations" regarding the instrument's ability to produce pipe organ music. The FTC order prohibits the representation that the electric organ as now constructed can produce the entire range of tone coloring of a pipe organ, and similar claims. Several Seek 900 Kc. KFBB, Great Falls, Mont., has asked the FCC for a shift to 900 kc. with 5,000 watts day and night. It now operates with 1,000 night and 5,000 day on 1280 kc. Also seeking a shift to 900 kc. is KRMC, Jamestown, N. D., seeking 500 watts night and 1,000 day. It now operates on 1370 kc. with 100 night and 250 day. UIKZO KHLnmnzoo GRRI1D RRPIDS BATTLE CREEK 590 On tke diaJi lOOO Watt* Changes Probable] In Operator Rulesli FCC Hearing Yields Several \ Objections From Unions AFTER two days of open hearings on proposed changes in radio operator rules July 11-12, the FCC recessed further hearings until Sept. 14, when operator representatives will appear with written "exact word" recommendations as to changes in the regulations. The recent hearings, termed "very satisfactory" by E. K. Jett, FCC chief engineer, in' charge of the hearings, gave evi dence that some changes will be made, since operators from both the radiotelegraph and radiotelephone fields were not in full agreement with present rules. Mr. Jett told Broadcasting the FCC will publish a synopsis of the testimony taken during the two days to acquaint interested parties with both sides of the question. The hearings, conducted informally with witnesses being allowed to question Mr. Jett and Comdr. E. M. Webster, FCC assistant chief engineer, sitting with him, were participated in by more than 30 witnesses. Eligibility Standards Main exceptions to the rule, changes were concerned with the; "physical, mental and mora 1"; standards as eligibility requirement (Rule 161.01); provision that applicants for license renewals be required to pass examinations as for original licenses (Rule 164.05), and the requirement that operators point out all defects and imperfections in the radio equipment they operate (Rule 169.02). The operators declared the FCC did not have the "bedroom powers" ascribed in Rule 161.01, and that personal fitness for a job was a matter to be left with the employer. They also favored license renewals on a basis of experience and said that Rule 169.02 put operators "on the spot" by laying them open to losing their jobs, since "an employer might look around for someone who doesn't see so well". Radiotelegraph and marine op-; erators dominated the hearings, and domestic radio operators' representatives did not take the stand until shortly before the recess July 12. Among the dozen witnesses appearing for broadcast operators were Joseph S. McDonagh, of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; and R. M. Wilmotte, for the NAB. Representative: HOWARD H. WILSON CO. CHICAGO • NEW YORK • KANSAS CITY WTCN OWNED AND OPERATED by St. Paul DispatchPioneer Press The Minneapolis Tribune Page 56 • July 15, 1938 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising I . . ___________ mmm ______________■__■■______%