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CALM PRECEDES STORM AS FCC AWAITS McNINCH
With a heavy Fall program of activity ahead, the Federal Communications Commission this week was experiencing a calm that heralds a storm as it awaited the return of Chairman Frank R, McNinch.
The Chairman, who has been at a seaside resort following a month's illness, is due at his FCC office the first of next week. One of the first matters to occupy his attention will be the agenda for the Commission's monopoly inquiry, scheduled to begin early next month.
As William J. Dempsey, Special Counsel of the FCC Monopoly Committee, correlated voluminous data gathered by a staff of assistants, the FCC withheld announcements regarding the inquiry until they could be made by the Chairman*
While the monopoly probe will be the most important activity of the FCC this Fall, several other highly important matters will be before the Commission. Final decisions, however, may be postponed until early next year.
The FC^ will be confronted with the problem of decid¬ ing whether or not to alter its rule respecting super-power after the Special Committee headed by Commissioner Norman S. Case makes its report. This is expected in the early Fall.
On the outcome of this decision will depend the dis¬ position of a dozen applications by broadcasters for authority to raise their power from 50 KW, to 500 KW.
A ruling on the associated issue of whether a station is to be permitted to operate experimentally with 500 KW. is not expected before the first part of 1939.
Although a forecast at this time is no more than a guess, it is believed that the FCC will not alter its rule limit¬ ing regular station operation to 50 KW. in view of the Senate's resolution advising such limitation and its own engineering report.
The question of experimental operation, however, is a different issue, and is likely that political factors may enter the picture before a decision is reached.
The Commission has postponed until next Spring the definite allocation of certain services in the ultra-high fre¬ quencies, but this does not mean that the matter will be dismiss¬ ed until that time. FCC engineers will be studying the problem and the complaints raised by the communications companies.
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