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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
9/6/50
CONTINUOUS BAND OF U-0 CHANNELS URGED FOR TELEVISION
The President’s Communications Policy Board has been urg¬ ed to have the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee release little used Government frequencies so the Federal Communications Commission can assign television a continuous extension up to 395*^ me. This was done in a letter to the President’s Board, the Chair¬ man of which is Dr. Irving L. Stewart, ex-FCC Commissioner, now President of the University of West Virginia, from the editors of Tele-Tech, whose director is Dr. 0. H* Caldwell, who was a member of the original Federal Radio Commission.
are :
The members of the President's Board, besides Dr. Stewart,
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, University of Southern California, Pasadena, Dr, W. L. Everitt, University of Illinois, Urbana, Dr. James R. Killian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and David H. O'Brien, ex-V.P., G-raybar, ex War Assets Administrator.
The letter from Tele-Tech to the Board follows:
"Your Board in the next 60 days can accomplish untold bene¬ fits for the public and television. You and you alone can clear the way for an adequate continuous thoroughfare for this great new TV service to the American people.
"This means that television should be granted a practi¬ cally continuous tuning band extending upward from Channel 13 through Channel 41 as shown by accompanying chart.
"Such a continuous TV band will mean better TV reception for the public, wider areas of good reception for each station, cheaper and more efficient receiving sets, and more economical trans¬ mitters delivering adequate signals with less power as compared with present proposals to ban TV to the little-known UHF region.
The 40 channels we propose will provide for approximately 2000 TV stations, surely enough to take care of all foreseeable requirements for years to come.
"Nothing stands in the way of this desirable solution of the television problem except a few minor Government installations on channels preempted by IRAC, but little used. Such Government installations could be readily transferred to the UHF, for which they are best adapted. (Already IRAC has earmarked one half of the entire radio spectrum leaving to FCC and the general public only the remaining half. Actually the Government in peacetime needs only a tenth of the spectrum for experimentation and practice. For in case of war, the whole spectrum automatically goes over to Govern¬ ment control),
"In your coming report to the President of the United States which at his direction your Board is now drafting, we urge that you recommend that by Presidential Order IRAC be instructed to release those little-used or unused channels, which stand in the
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