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7/7/39
relative for example, 50 kilowatts* power is less power than that delivered by a single low-priced automobile engine; 500 kilowatts' power equals only that developed by one Douglas air¬ plane engine. It will result, however, in a radio parity that will put rural areas more nearly on a par with the metropolitan districts of the country and furnish to listeners in the United States generally a program excellence that is now only attained in the huge metropolitan areas.
"I am convinced in my own mind that the very phrase ' superpower* as applied to broadcasting stations has created a complete misconception in the minds of many as to its meaning. If the Commission's so-called superpower report had been termed, as it might well have been, 'Report on means of improving rural and small-town radio reception', an entirely different reaction to this report might have been indicated on the part of the Commission itself, ”
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FCC REJECTS PLEA FOR BROADENING S-W HEARING
The Federal Communications Commission this week rejected flatly the petitions of international short-wave broadcasters and the National Association of Broadcasters that the hearing scheduled for next Friday be broadened to include all of the recently pro¬ mulgated rules governing international broadcasting.
The requests were made by the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Crosley Corporation, General Electric, the Isle of
Dreams Broadcasting ‘^orp. , National Broadcasting Company, WCAU Broadcasting Company, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. , and NAB.
said:
Explaining its decision the FCC in a formal statement
"The Federal Communications Commission, having hereto¬ fore granted a request for a hearing from the American Civil Liberties Union on Section 42.03(a) of the International Broad¬ cast Rules adopted by the Commission, and having set such hearing for July 12, later postponed to July 14, concluded to confine the hearing to the issue directly designa^ted in the petition of the American Civil Liberties Union, although other petitioners sou^t to enlarge the issues and to postpone the hearing set for July 14. These later petitioners will have ample opportunity to be heard subsequently, on any other issues in the Rules governing Inter¬ national Broadcast Stations as adopted should they so desire. Therefore, the hearing on Section 42.03(a) will be held as set for 10 o'clock, July 14."
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