Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1956)

53 Jl EVERYTHING FOR MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION CAMART DUAL SOUND READER • Edit single and double system 16mm or 35mm optical sound! • Edit single system Magnastripe or double system magnetic sound! • Use with any 16mm motion picture viewer to obtain perfect lip-sync matching of picture to track! • Works from left to right or right to left! • Optical Model, #195.00 • Magnetic Model, #185.00 For descriptive literature, write Department B 1845 BROADWAY (at 60th St.) NEW YORK 23 • PLoza 7-6977 • Coble: Cameramart al Columbus Circle next to | Ntp-Yorli-iMwCohMum, 66 Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you Queen for a Day now in its ELEVENTH year A RAYMOND R. MORGAN PRODUCTION Page 220 • October 15, 1956 injunction to WSAY Rochester, N.Y., to keep ABC and MBS from switching affiliations to other stations, U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, New York, holds that network is not a common carrier and can make whatever contracts it wishes for the distribution of its programs. May 10: Texas Attorney General notifies FCC that despite its WHLS Port Huron decision, Texas libel laws are still in effect and "stations carrying libelous material will be subject to state laws." May 10: FCC orders into effect earlier proposal assigning tv ch. 1 (44-50 mc) to non-government fixed and mobile services, denying fm spokesmen's pleas for that channel for use in fm network relaying; gives fm stations in 44-50 mc band until end of year to move to 88-108 mc; issues proposed new expanded tv allocation table; calls hearing on feasibility of tv use of frequencies above 475 mc; proposes required minimum hours of tv station operation be scaled from 12 hours a week for first 18 months to 28 hours a week after 36 months. May 10: House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate station grants to Edward Lamb, Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D-La.) states after speech accusing Mr. Lamb of having "Communist associations and affiliations." May 1 7: Frank E. Mullen resigns as executive vice president of NBC to become president of G. A. Richards stations. May 24: NAB convention approves new code, considerably revamped from original version, as ideal toward which operation should be aimed. May 24: ABC makes public offering of 500,000 shares of voting stock; it is all sold in less than two hours at $9 a share. May 31: President Truman nominates Miss Frieda Hennock to FCC. May 31: FCC's denial of an application made by WADC Akron because it contemplated full-time use of network programs is upheld by U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia, which divides 2to-1 over whether decision involved censorship. May 31: D. C. Appellate Court refuses to rehear the WCKY case, in which it rules FCC should have heard WCKY Cincinnati before putting a day timer on its channel; appeal to Supreme Court foreseen. June 7: Gulf Oil Corp. starts sponsorship of We the People on both CBS Radio and CBS-TV; first regular sponsored simulcast series. June 14: FCC authorizes commercial use of facsimile broadcasting on fm channels as of July 15; adopts rules and standards for printed broadcast medium. June 14: Texas Co. puts old-style vaudeville show on tv; launches hour series on NBC-TV starring Milton Berle and with commercial delivered by Sid Stone, vaudeville pitchman. June 28: Tv coverage of GOP convention makes history, reaches 10-12 million persons, costs an estimated $200,000, was transmitted to midwest viewers by Stratovision. June 28: Senate confirms appointment of Miss Hennock as first woman FCC commissioner. July 5: FCC officially adopts its "Port Broadcasting • Telecasting