Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

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Midwest is paying $10,085,000 for the channel 8 San Diego station; it is part of the disposition of Transcontinent Television Corp. (no relation to Transcontinental) TV stations in a $38.5 million transaction which has Taft Broadcasting buying Kansas City, Buffalo and Scranton, and Time-Life buying Bakersfield, Calif. (Broadcasting, Sept. 23). All pend FCC approval. $3,000 in fines upheld by FCC The federal government is going to be $3,000 richer when it collects the fines ordered by the FCC last week. The commission last week affirmed $500 fines for wcco-tv, kstp-tv, wtcntv and kmsp-tv, all Minneapolis for failure to identify the sponsor of a local program supporting an ordinance closing stores on Sundays (Broadcasting, Sept. 10, 1962). The program featured Dr. Arthur Upgren, an economist, discussing the merits of the ordinance — which had been vetoed by the mayor and was to be reconsidered by the city council the next day — and was sponsored by a group of businessmen called the Downtown Council. The commission also gave interpretations of the words "willful" and "repeated"— the former means "the licensee knew that he was doing the acts in question" and doesn't require that he realize them as being wrong; the latter "means simply more than once." The four stations, joined by the National Association of Broadcasters, had questioned if the violations could be termed "willful" and "repeated" bringing them under the rules governing forfeitures. The commission also affirmed a $1,000 fine for ksrd Rapid City, S. D., for operating the station with unauthorized equipment and using remote control with a defective apparatus. The commission said the licensee, The Black Hills Station, owned by John, Eli and Harry Daniels, admitted "certain of the violations, but considered them merely 'technical' and offered no other explanations in excuse or mitigation." Greensboro stations unite The five AM radio stations in Greensboro, N. C, have formed a new association for joint efforts in promoting the medium. Carrol Ogle, weal general manager, was elected president of the Greensboro Radio Association at the organizational meeting Oct. 23. Other Greensboro stations and their representatives at the first meeting were wbig (Dan Griffin), wgbg (Ralph Lambeth), wpet (Ray Stephenson) and wcog (Ron Kempff). Everyone waited but the shoe didn't drop The biggest news out of the FCC last week was what didn't happen. The commission didn't decide the controversial drop-in case, as scheduled. It didn't consider a staff proposal concerning regulation of community antenna systems. And Chairman E. William Henry didn't fly back to Geneva for the final week of the international conference on space frequency allocation. The chairman, who served as senior advisor to the U. S. delegation at the conference, had been informed before he returned to this country two weeks ago that his presence in Geneva would probably be needed when the delegates voted on allocation proposals. He planned to return Thursday (Oct. 30). However, the leader of the U. S. delegation, John McConnell, informed him Wednesday by telephone — via the Syncom space satellite — that the conference was proceeding smoothly and that for the time being, at least, there was no need for his return. As a result, the commission decided to relax the pressure it had been maintaining. It spent all day Monday discussing a staff proposal for limiting network control of programing (see story page 54) and was in its regular meeting until 5:40 p.m. Wednesday. Ahead of it lay a special meeting on the proposed revision of the program reporting form and the dropins. The commission met on the program form Thursday, but put off the drop-in case — involving the controversial question of whether it should affirm its decision to deny shortspaced VHF channels for seven markets. No new date was set, but it is expected to be considered this week. CATV was tentatively scheduled for discussion Monday, but was dropped from the agenda when it was apparent the network programing matter would consume the entire day. No new date has yet been set for consideration of the CATV matter. FAIRCHILD RECORDING EQUIPMENT CORPORATION 10-40 45th Ave., Long Island City 1, N.Y. 72 (THE MEDIA) BROADCASTING, November 4, 1963