Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1958)

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GOVERNMENT cont.nued months and to a lesser degree toward summer. Other disruption would be caused to 13 other fulltime stations on 1370 kc and the same thing would happen to stations on the 40 other regular frequencies, Storer said. All 160 unlimited stations on clear channels would be reduced in service and clear channel service would be reduced to a "shambles" in the winter, Storer added, the whole effect being to "scuttle" daylight rural service and "prejudge" the clear channel and daytime skywave matters before the FCC. A. Earl Cullum Jr., Dallas consulting engineer, stated that if daytimers were allowed to begin operating before sunrise and continue after sunset, the public would suffer since the ability to listen to clear or regional stations would be affected, as would the ability to hear the local daytimer which would be receiving interference from these other stations. If the FCC should decide to permit daytime stations to extend their hours of operation, Class 1 stations should be required to cease skywave radiation at 6 a.m. and be permitted to resume at 7 p.m. This would protect daytime stations from disastrous interference from clear channel stations during the transition period from nighttime to daylight. This proposal was made by Lee Hollingsworth of Hollingsworth Co. Enterprises Inc. (electronics), West Hempstead, N. Y. FCC ASKS FOR CATV COMMENTS The FCC last week asked for guidance on the community tv system problemIt asked for comments on a host of questions by June 27. After it reviews the comments, the Commission said, it will be able to make up its mind as to what to do, if anything, on the situation. The Commission action came less than a week before it is scheduled to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee for a resumption of hearing on tv allocations. Community tv operations are on the committee's agenda. The FCC is due to appear before the Senate committee tomorrow (Tuesday). The impact of catv systems on small town tv became a vital subject of discussion last month at the NAB convention in Los Angeles, which resulted in the establishment of a special committee. It was fed in more recent weeks by a group of northwest broadcasters who asked the FCC to reconsider an April 3 decision holding that catv operations are not common carriers, and by the charges that a Kalispell tv station had to close down because of competition from the local catv system; that a Helena, Mont., station might close down if the FCC permits a local catv system to bring Spokane, Wash., signals to that city via microwave relay; that a $600,000 station purchase col WAVE-TV for • BALANCED PROGRAMMING • AUDIENCE RATINGS • COVERAGE • COSTS PER THOUSAND • TRUSTWORTHY OPERATION NBC AFFILIATE NBC SPOT SALES, EXCLUSIVE NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES WFIE-TV, Channel 14, the NBC affiliate in Eyansville, is now owned and operated by WAVE, Inc. Page 80 • May 26, 1958 lapsed at the threat of the establishment of a catv system in Great Falls, Mont. [Special Report, May 12]. The catv problem, the Commission said, raises two types of questions: jurisdictional and policy. The central problem, the Commission said, was the evaluation of the economic impact exerted by small town television facilities of the various kinds on the construction and successful operation of regular tv stations. There are about 550 catv systems serving 500,000 homes. The alternatives facing the Commission, the notice said was this: If the catv system or other small town program distribution facility is obliged to discontinue, the local residents would be deprived of two, three, four or five services which these facilities can provide them. They would thus be reduced to a single source of programs — the local station — which in many cases cannot provide even the amount of network programs which the catv or other local system brings in over a single channel. As against this the continued operation of catv systems, repeaters and translators is charged by some as threatening and in some cases causing the demise of local stations. This not only removes a local outlet for the broadcast of local events, but also deprives service to persons who may be within the reach of the regular tv station but are not served by the catv system or other types of local service facilities. . . ." The questions the FCC wants answered are these: 1. In which communities, and to how many persons are 1, 2, 3 or more tv program services provided by (a) catv systems; (b) boosters and unauthorized translators; (c) authorized translators, and (d) satellite tv stations? 2. In which of the communities under (1) are there (a) tv stations authorized but not yet operating; (b) tv stations in operation; (c) tv stations built but now off the air, and (d) foreseeable opportunities for the operation of one or more tv stations? 3. How many persons receive their only satisfactory tv service from regular tv stations located in or near communities in which catv systems, boosters or translators are operating? 4. How many of the communities under (1) had no local tv station but receive satisfactory direct reception from a tv station in a nearby city or town? 5. In what ways and to what extent do the operations of catv systems, boosters, translators and satellites affect the ability of existing and potential tv stations to obtain revenues and programs? What significant light has been cast on this question by experience to date in the operation of regular tv stations in communities where catv systems, boosters and translators have been in operation? 6. What areas and populations receive no tv service of any kind and what steps would it be desirable for the Commission to take to encourage and foster the provision Broadcasting