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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
8/16/50
NEW FM COMMITTEE SET UP; DR. E. H. ARMSTRONG ADVISOR
The new FM Broadcasters Committee was set up last week by FM stations meeting at the National Association of Broadcasters1 headquarters in Washington. Dr. Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of FM was present, and from time to time was called upon for advice and suggestions.
Though still just a list of five names, the Committee car¬ ries the hopes of FM broadcasters for a hard-hitting agency that will work independently of NAB but on a cooperating basis. No date has been set for the Committee’s first meeting.
Named to this five-man group were Raymond S. Green, WFLN (FM), Philadelphia; H. Hirschmann, WABF (FM) New York; Morris S. Novik,
WCUO (FM), Cleveland; Ray Furr, WIST (FM), Charlotte, N.C.; Elliott Mo Sanger, WQXR-FM, New York. Mr. Novik was proposed as Chairman, but it was understood he preferred merely to be a Committee member*
Some 30 broadcasters met in the NAB Board room as guests of the NAB FM Committee, headed by Ben Strouse, WWDC-FM, Washington, an NAB Board member for FM. All morning and well into the afternoon the NAB Committee heard these representative FM operators recite their grievances and propose steps to solve FM's economic and engineering problems. Ed Sellers, NAB FM Director, represented NAB in the dis¬ cussions.
After the gamut of FM troubles had been covered, the broad¬ casters started a new meeting which was declared to be entirely inde¬ pendent and non-NAB in character. This was ba.sed on the theory that NAB, as an all-inclusive industry trade association, could not aggres¬ sively fight FM's battles or promite it as an advertising medium.
The resolutions adopted by the first meeting, and re-adopted by the non-NAB meeting of the same broadcasters, were taken up for the third time by the NAB FM Committee, which met that evening after the open sessions had adjourned. The NAB FM Committee endorsed most of these resolutions, with minor changes, and passed them on for Board action.
One provocative resolution was passed by the NAB FM Committee. This proposed an organized campaign to promote FM by broadcasting such slogans as "If you buy a new radio or TV set without FM, you are buy¬ ing an obsolete radio", or "A set without FM is only half a modern radio. "
It was generally felt by the FM broadcasters that such action should be taken only if set manufacturers refuse to produce more radio and TV sets with FM tuning circuits, or FM-only sets.
Agreement was noted on the proposal that any future surveys conducted under auspices of NAB or other organization should include questions on FM and FM ownership, with the type of survey to be ap¬ proved by the NAB FM Committee.
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