Broadcasting (Apr - June 1950)

[SET KWRZ FCC Sets Hearing Dares ISSUES and dates for license renewal proceedings involving KWRZ (Flagstaff, Ariz., and KSET El Paso, Tex., have been announced by FCC. The hearings respectively Bre to commence May 15 in Washington and May 17 in El Paso. In the KWRZ case, upon request bf the station, FCC set aside its earlier order forfeiting the station's license [Broadcasting, Dec. b.2, 1949], and designated the renewal bid for consolidated hearing with the application of Flagstaff Broadcasting Co. for a new station there on KWRZ's assignment, 250 w fulltime on 1340 kc. The Commission's hearing on the KSET renewal includes inquiry regarding a pending bid to assign the station's license to Rio Grande Broadcasting Co. FCC indicated it wishes to determine whether any unauthorized transfer of KSET has taken place. KSET is assigned 250 w on 1340 kc, fulltime. Among issues in the KWRZ ;case, FCC reported the following: To determine the legal, technical, financial and other qualifications of Grand Canyon Bcstg Co. (KWRZ) to continue to operate station KWRZ and more particularly to obtain full information relating to: (a) the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the cessation of operation of KWRZ ■on Sept. 30, 1949; (b) the contract, dated Jan. 14, 1949, entered into between the licensee of KWRZ and Selwyn Kirby and Agnes McGillvra by virtue of which the licensee agreed to ■sell their interest in KWRZ and by virtue of which the buyers would take over as managers and receive profits and losses subsequent to Feb. 1, 1949: (c) the operation of station KWRZ subsequent to February 1, 1949 by Selwyn Kirby and Agnes McGillvra; . . . <g) the plans of Grand Canyon Bcstg. Co. as to the resumption of broadcasting over KWRZ; (h) the circumstances leading up to the bankruptcy of James IL. Stapleton on October 1, 1949 and the resultant effect of such bankruptcy on the future operation of station KWRZ. To determine whether the license for KWRZ, or the rights and responsibilities incident thereto, have been transferred, assigned or disposed of, directly or indirectly, without the consent of the Commission and in violation cf Sect. 310(b) of the Act. 1 To determine whether KWRZ has "been operated by persons to whom no license has been issued by this Commission in violation of Sect. 301 of the Act. Issues in the KSET case included among others: ' To determine the legal, technical, WDRC CONNECTICUT'S PIONEER BROADCASTER GW6S l°hy V ; shov/s v Har tfoi; V/rrte by for Y best any fAalo, our Com merce St. Har tford, TO reach the transmitter at WHAM Rochester, N. Y., Al Balling, transmitter supervisor; Ken Gardner, director of engineering, and Earl Zimmer, operator, make use of the boat provided by the county sheriff's office. This resulted after spring floods put the transmitter at the center of a lake a mile in diameter. Station did not go off the air, officals said. financial and other qualifications of the applicant, Sunland Bcstg. Co. (KSET), to continue to operate KSET and more particularly to obtain full information relating to: (a) The circumstances leading up to and surrounding the cessation of operations of KSET on July 31, 1949; (b) The method or methods of financing of the operation of KSET from July 31, 1949, to date and the source or sources of such financing; (c) Two certain contracts, date Oct. 14, 1949. entered into between Sunland Bcstg. Co. and one J. L. Vance, and between Sunland Bcstg. Co., J. L. Vance, and Rio Grande Bcstg. Co., by virtue of which all of the real and personal property of Sunland, including all books of account, ledgers, bankbooks, etc. and "any and all other papers, documents or writings pertaining in any way to the property assigned" was conveyed to Vance and ultimately to Rio Grande; (d) The employment by Sunland of personnel of Rio Grande and particularly the employment of G. C. Hoffman, an officer in Rio Grande, as "operational manager of KSET", together with full information relating to the scope of authority of such employees over the operation and policies of KSET; (e) The authority and control exercised by the stockholders of Commission record of Sunland Bcstg. Co. over the policies and operation of KSET from July 31, 1949 to date. W. S. SYMINGTON Begins Post at NSRB W. STUART SYMINGTON, former Secretary of the Air Force, has assumed his duties as chairman of the National Security Resources Board, charged with formulating a mobilization program for the nation's resources in the event of emergency. He was sworn in April 26. Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman, had been acting board chairman. The new NSRB head will be responsible for distribution of potential resources for military and civilian requirements, policy guidance on the stockpiling program including vital radio-TV equipment, civil defense planning and preparedness measures. The board has assigned specific projects to a number of government agencies, including the Munitions Board in charge of procurement of equipment. ecnnic&k EDWARD E. BENHAM, with station for past 15 months, named assistant chief engineer of KTTV (TV) Los Angeles. RENE FRENETTE appointed chief operator of Quebec area of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., with headquarters at CBV Quebec. He formerly was with transmission and development section of engineering division of CBC at Montreal. KARL MESSERSCHMIDT joins TV engineering staff at NBC Chicago. NICK M. SANCHEZ Jr., engineer at KONO San Antonio, Tex., is the father of a girl, Beverly Jean. SETCHELL CARLSON Inc., New Brighton, Minn., producing "unit-ized" television sets, featuring entire chassis organized into eight plug-in units, each performing separate and distinct function, yet synchronized in operation of set. SHALLCROSS MFG Co., Collingdale, Pa., announces availability of laboratory-type capacitor analyzer meeting need for highly acurate, wide-range, direct-reading measuring instrument capable of determining essential characteristics of capacitors. W. J. WILLIAMS Radio-TV Pioneer Dies WYNANT J. WILLIAMS, 66, pioneer in radio and television, died of a heart attack May 1 while in conference at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 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