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7/2/38
Action on applications of WLW and a dozen other sta¬ tions for regular authorization to use 500 KW. has been post¬ poned until after the FCC decides whether it will change its rules, which now limit power to 50 KW.
On July 25th the Commission will hear oral arguments in the matter of fxg-quan.cy,~al locat ion to services in the bands from 30,000 to 300,000 kc. This will be a follow-up of the testimony “given last week by communications carriers which objected, among other things, to the allocation of so many channels to television.
Commissioner Thad H. Brown will go to Cleveland on July 18th to open hearings on radio matters in connection with the Great Lakes and inland waters survey.
The FCC shortly will announce rules for the guidance of broadcasting stations which well time to political candidates, and it is likely that it will have to pass upon complaints from politicians and stations from time to time as the campaign grows warmer.
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CASE REAPPOINTED; MC NINCH TO STAY ON
Reappointment of Norman S. Case, former Governor of Rhode Island, as a Republican member of the Federal Communica¬ tions Commission was announced Thursday at Hyde Park. As it is a recess appointment, Commissioner Case cannot be confirmed by the Senate until Congress reconvenes next January.
Meanwhile, Chairman Frank R. McNinch stated that he has no intention of returning to the Chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission in the immediate future. Although he was drafted for the FCC job by President Roosevelt last Fall on a temporary leave from the Power Commission, it now appears that he will remain at least until Congress returns and possibly permanently.
When he took over the FCC helm, Commissioner McNinch indicated that he would have the Commission and the broadcasting industry in order by the first of this year. That the task was larger than he surmised became apparent shortly. Then, when Congress began talking of an investigation of radio, he remained to prevent it.
Now he has the job of conducting a monopoly inquiry of his own, probably early this Fall, and there is little doubt that Congress will demand a strict accounting of his findings next session.
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