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his 12V2 interest. Mr. Paxson is program director and holds a 40% interest in wack Newark, N. J. Wxyj, founded in 1948 is a fulltime station on 1340 kc with 250 w. ■ Wone-tv Dayton, Ohio: CP sold by Brush-Moore Newspapers to Springfield Television Broadcasting Corp. for SI 53,000. Springfield owns UHF outlets wwlp(tv) Springfield, wrlp(tv) Greenfield and wwor(tv) Worcester, all Massachusetts. Wone-tv holds authority to operate on channel 22. Rollins buying more from General Outdoor Rollins Broadcasting Inc. moved last week to acquire two more General Outdoor Advertising facilities — in Philadelphia and Washington. D. C. At a reported price of $5 million, Rollins is getting the outdoor advertising plants and real estate holdings of General Outdoor in two of the top 10 markets. The transaction will be effective March 1, 1964, O. Wayne Rollins, president of the company, said in announcing the acquisition last week. Three weeks earlier, Rollins bought the facilities of General Outdoor in Mexico, paying a reported S500,000 for plants and offices in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterey (Broadcasting, Dec. 2). The acquisitions bring Rollins's outdoor coverage in the East from Philadelphia to Washington and beyond (Rollins already owned an outdoor business headquartered in Wilmington, Del., its home base). An increase in the company's revenues of 45% can be expected to result from the latest transactions, Mr. Rollins said. Rollins has long had an outdoor advertising interest in Texas, based in Austin. Rollins owns three TV and seven radio stations. They are: wear-tv Pensacola, Fla. (Mobile, Ala.); wchs-amtv Charleston-Huntington, W. Va.; wptz-tv Pittsburgh, N.Y. (Burlington, Vt.); wnjr Newark, N.J.; kday Santa Monica, Calif.: wrap Norfolk, Va.; wbee Harvey. 111. (Chicago): wgee Indianapolis, Ind., and wams Wilmington, Del. WEMP to join CBS Radio Wemp-am-fm Milwaukee will affiliate with the CBS Radio network starting Dec. 29, it was announced last week by A. M. Spheeris, wemp president. The station has been a musicnews-sports operation since 1948. Wmil Milwaukee daytime station has been the CBS outlet there. Wemp operates fulltime on 1250 kc with 5 kw. Wemp-fm is on 99.1 mc with 25 kw. FCC EASES UP ON CATV RULEMAKINGS Local station protection, orderly CATV growth are aims The FCC hopes that it will be able to protect local television stations from economic injury by community antenna systems and at the same time insure the orderly growth of CATV. This was the announced intent of the commission last week when it released a proposed rulemaking to "govern" the grants of facilities in the domestic point-to-point (common carrier) microwave service to relay programing for CATV systems, and a further notice of a rulemaking to control grants in the business radio service, for the same purpose. The rulemakings, taken as a whole, somewhat ease up on the restrictions which were first proposed in the original rules to govern the business radio service— restrictions which broadcasters in general did not think went far enough (Broadcasting, Feb. 25). The 30-days before-and-after ban on CATV duplication of local television station programing— within the grade A contour — has been cut to 15 days. The proposed rules also require the CATV system to carry a program of the TV station if the local station requested it. The commission has made a number of grants for facilities to CATV systems since taking the problem of regulation under consideration. These grants were conditioned by an agreement from the CATV system which would be served by the microwave licensee that it accepted a 30-day nonduplication clause. These conditions also would be changed to 15 days by the proposed rules. The proposed rules also would require that a CATV system located within the grade B contour give written notices to local stations that it plans to apply to the commission for microwave facilities to relay their programing. "'Upon appropriate showing, interim protection, pending the outcome of a hearing, could be afforded such TV stations," the commission said. CATV Freeze ■ The FCC has placed a freeze on further application for microwave facilities to carry programs to CATV systems pending a determination in the rulemaking proceeding. "These include applications for new facilities as well as for modification, renewal and assignment of existing facilities," the commission said. The commission also said that the EXCLUSIVE BROADCAST PROPERTIES! MIDWEST — Fulltime radio station with good real estate. Grossed $83,000.00 last year and capable of doing much better. Priced at $130,000.00. Contact — John D. Stebbins in our Chicago office. CALIFORNIA— Hiah powered, fulltime radio station with regional coverage of strong growth area. Owner-operator can materially increase $40,000.00 annual cash flow. Priced at 29% down and long terms. Contact— John F. Hardesty in our San Francisco office. cc/y/icUc//i/ NEGOTIATIONS WASHINGTON, D.C. 1737 DeSales St., N.W. Executive 3-3456 & ASSOCIATES, INC. John F. fiardesty. President APPRAISALS • FINANCING OF CHOICE PROPERTIES CHICAGO Tribune Tower DEIaware 7-2754 DALLAS 1511 Bryan St. Riverside 8-1175 SAN FRANCISCO ill Sutter St. EXbrook 2-5671 RADIO • TV • CATV • NEWSPAPERS BROADCASTING, December 16, 1963 71