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Hoinl Radio-Television News Service
4/6/49
WNYC, NEViT YORK MUNICIPAL STATION, WOULD BROADCAST NIGHTS
New York City*s radio Station WNYC is seeking Federal Communications Commission authorization to broadcast until 10 P.M. , EST*
Coincidentally, S, N. Siegel, Director of the station, dis¬ closed that WNYC had just received an extension until September of its temporary permit for broadcasting through the evening hours. Except for such a permit, broadcasting over the city’s station would have to cease at 5 o’clock every afternoon*
Formal application for the permanent authorization will be submitted to the FCC within two weeks, Mr. Siegel said. For seven years, WNYC has operated daily until 10 P.M. under successive re¬ newals of temporary permits, most of them for six-month periods.
The station expects to make a strong case for its long¬ term application on the ground that, as the only municipally-oper¬ ated non-commercial outlet of its kind in the country, its services through long hours of the day and evening are vital to the public.
Its functions go beyond entertainment to include disaster warnings, and other public services.
Mr, Siegel said;
”We do not have just a few sponsors, as most stations do. We cater to 8,000,000 sponsors.”
And many of these 8,000,000 sponsors are quick to use the mails and the telephone to tell VJNYC what they think. Bona-fide pieces of mail concerning programs received by the station numbered 38,105 in 1946, 54,947 in 1947 and 64,594 in 1948.
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GERMANS FEAR ALLIES’ BAN OF BERLIN RADIO INDUSTRY
A german official expressed fear last week that American, British and French negotiations in London have agreed to ban Berlin’s radio transmitter Industry,
Wolf Steinbrucke, chief of the electrical industry section of the Berlin city government, the Associated Press reported, said German officials had unconfirmed reports that the industry is to be put back on the list of prohibited war potentials. He said the reports were that the British, fearing competition, had exacted the ban as a price for their agreement to save about 150 German plants from dismantling for reparations,
Steinbrucke said such a decision vi/ould have “disastrous" political repercussions in Berlin’s Western sectors, which repeatedly have demonstrated support for the Vi/estern powers in the blockade.
The industry, employing a large number of persons, has been kept going by supplies from the airlift,
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